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ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… students in the wake of the Soweto uprisings . During its formation the South African Student Movement (SASM) and other … training and correspondence…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… and landscape of the country. It must be admitted that the formation of the Union was a direct result of the Treaty of … ignoring the wishes of the majority…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… branch was launched later in the year. Following MAWU’s formation, a report (May 1973) on the role and future of the … Union (UAW) which would later prove…
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
… A Double-Edged Sword, which outlines the history and formation of CONTRALESA. This article was written by Savannah …
ArticleFederation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW)
… from all over the Transvaal (now known as Gauteng). The formation of FEDTRAW was based on the celebration of the formation of its mother body Federation of…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… after the positive turn of events. He proposed the formation of a new organisation, which would represent the …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… its mass base, having started a decade earlier with the formation of the ANCYL and the ANC’s Women’s League. The … union workers of food manufacturer Fattis…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress … was initially aligned to the BCM and AZAPO. Between its formation and 1986…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black student life in the … national movements (ANC and PAC)…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… the last armed resistance against white rule in before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The Zulu … leadership to establish the first…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… squatter settlements formed their own organisation. The formation of the Western Cape Civic Association (WCCA) was … Some of the leading members who were…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… in Johannesburg was launched, the early 1940s saw the formation of a number of youth organisations in Natal that … branch of the ANC Youth League (Couzens,…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… became active in the resistance movement ahead of the formation of UDF in 1983. The Port Elizabeth Black Civic … stronghold, they were soon associated with…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
… became involved in the unity talks which led to the formation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… - ignited a debate which laid the foundation for the formation of the National Committee of Liberation (NCL). … Berman, Lang and Wentzel played an important…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… committee was turned down. The Bill was preceded by the formation of the Wijnbouwers Vereeniging in October 1877. … the bill. Hofmeyr exploited the…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… school protests taking place in the country. Before the formation of the African National Congress Youth League in … workers of the spaghetti and pasta…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… Early years of Indian Settlement Gandhi in South Africa Formation of the S.A.I.C. and the First Three Conferences … Survey The Emergence of the Radicals in…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… resigned as a teacher. He was also the key figure in the formation of the African Political Union (APU) and the …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… the amendment of its discriminatory constitution, the formation of the local committees to facilitate non-racial … denied membership. Nineteen trade unions…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… on this and a number of other issues crystallised in the formation of the first Coloured political organisation, the … that draft constitutions had been…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… violence in Natal during the early 1990s, Ndlovu led the formation and co-ordination of self-defence units (SDUs) in …
BiographyLloyd Spencer
Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed his own medium format photos using his father's antique cameras as…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… challenge the apartheid project. The BCM emerged with the formation of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) … held meetings with black…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… of Non-European Trade Unions in the next decade The formation of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions. World … and socially this played a pivotal role in…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… and commitment to fighting Apartheid. The ARM predated the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the … of Leaders, Elites and Coalitions in…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… and for national self-determination... more The formation of the ANC The South African Native National … Mines and Works Act was passed in 1911. These…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… 'Africans', an ' African Nationlism ' began to emerge. The formation of the ANC The South African Native National … Mines and Works Act was passed in 1911…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… – ignited a debate which laid the foundation for the formation of the National Committee of Liberation (NCL). … Berman, Lang and Wentzel played an important…
ArticleSouth African Council of Churches (SACC)
… Brief political context on the formation and history of the SACC ... read on 5 July 1995 …