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ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… they posed, especially in terms of underground organisation and the armed struggle. The paper reflects on …
Performance, Violence and the Collapse of a Cultural Movement by Ari Sitas
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The paper discusses how by 1995 the cultural movement that had its…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
On 23 January 2011, John James Issel also known as Johnny died at the age of 64, after he had suffered renal failure at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… delegates. They met together "as a businesslike political organisation and not as a debating society." But this was … coincides by urging the need for…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… 1948 The African National Congress (ANC) arose as a mass organisation in the 1950s as the black working class … system, and to divide and crush trade union…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… South African Congress of Democrats was an anti-apartheid organisation run by radical white lefties. African Content … hawkers, churches and young people…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… rise to the Union of these territories. As a political organisation, however, we trace our origin to 1912””the year … existence for some time. But there will…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… of forced labour". This was how the International Labour Organisation (ILO) described this system when it excluded … [3] . Nothing like it in France. In the…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… TRADE UNIONS The importance of assisting in the organisation of non-European workers in trade unions is … No. 19 stresses the paramount importance of…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… have good reason to increase their confidence in this organisation of the nations of the world. Again, I reiterate … characterising the poor is without doubt…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… and Creation of decent jobs for our people. At an organisation level, we have managed to convene successful …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Unveiling of the Tombstone of Oliver Tambo, 19 April 1998, Wattville, Benoni
… in which he achieved spectacular success. He placed our organisation on a level it had never reached before. Through …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Oliver Tambo
… in which he achieved spectacular success. He placed our organisation on a level it had never reached before. Through …
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… broke away to found the South African Student's Organisation (SASO) in December 1968. He was a regular …
DOCUMENT 37. “Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting.” Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969
… group of workers, are unable to improve their lot without organisation into Trade Unions, so is the individual trade …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… He immediately demonstrated a talent for leadership and organisation. Determined that the movement should become more …
Document 70 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 August 1937
… Fascists by the use of force. I am watching this organisation carefully. I shall be pleased to receive …
PlaceFederated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre
… of FUBA at that time, initiated a newsletter for the organisation, where each of the heads of departments was to …
PlaceThe Haven Night Shelter(s)
In February 1975 a group of NICRO Social Workers were having their morning tea break in their offices in Harrington Street. One of the Social Workers was…
PlaceHeuningvlei, West Coast District Municipality
The area that the West Coast District Municipality (WCDM) serves stretches from the border of Cape Town Metropole to the border of the Northern Cape. The…
EventIgnatius Iggy Mthebule remembered
… activist and leader associated with the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) in 1975. Iggy’s brother, Samuel …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… also gained its independence from Britain. 1963 CE The Organisation of African Unity is created. The aims of the organisation were to fight against…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… of the Bantustan programme and the growth of mass SWAPO organisation within the territory are amongst the signs of … wage levels. The routine argument of…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… National Union (SWANU) and the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) joined later. August, ZB Molote who was … Africanist Congress as ‘Umbutho…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… relies on building up a powerful countrywide underground organisation that lives with the masses. This organisation must be able to inspire the actions of…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… relies on building up a powerful countrywide underground organisation that lives with the masses. This organisation must be able to inspire the actions of…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… with particular reference to the disabilities and state of organisation of the non-white workers, the economic status of … the existing organisations. (e)…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… the trial proletariat, must first achieve cohesive organisation. This is difficult precisely because they are so … migrants, but once achieved, the wide…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… said, "when you are disciplined and you are told by the organisation not to be violent, you must not be violent. If … of Democrats, attempting to show it as…