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ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… union. Gaur Radebe held the shadow “cabinet” portfolio of secretary for mines in the Transvaal region of the African … of most of the leading progressive…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… President Thabo Mbeki, Deputy President of the ANC, Secretary General and all Members of the National Executive … ANC Youth League, The Veterans League,…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… of the Nation Address before the first democratically elected parliament on the 24th of May, 1994. In that Address … of February, 1995, the then Governor of…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… is launched and a Regional Executive Committee (REC) is elected in Durban June, Transvaal UDF region is launched. REC … an extension of the ANC and South…
EventThe Sebokeng Massacre of mourners leaves more than 30 dead and 40 more injured
… paid final respects to their comrade and community leader, Chris Nangalembe who was a member of the African National …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… at different times? This paper will draw upon the ANC and SACP’s public and internal documentation, interviews and oral … The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… pattern reminiscent of the crafts of Africa. The secretary bird is placed above the protea and the flower forms the chest of the bird. The secretary bird…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… of the ANCWL in Johannesburg for two years and later elected as an ANC member of parliament, wrote that, ‘ from … part of the current government. Initially,…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… which even today is not clear in the minds of many SACP, COSATU and ANC activists. The document strongly opposes … revolution advocated at that time by the…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… 200 000 pounds capital the Company, of which Rhodes was secretary, owned the largest interest in mines in South … in which Boer voters predominated, and at…
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… Sheila Lapinsky, Rick Turner (a lecturer), Paula Ensor, Chris Wood, and Philip Le Roux. …
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) and former editor of the New Age began at the Supreme … Fred became a local councillor and the…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… He then became South Africa’s first democratically elected president. Early Life Mandela was born on 18 July … joined the ANC (African National Congress) in…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
… parliamentary process that has no teeth. As Deputy General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told Parliament's Finance Committee … by civil society and the…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… a former member of the South African Communist Party (SACP), Myrtle Berman, John Lang, Ernest Wentzel and others … to the NCL also tended to harbour a deep…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… strike out along a new road, in which the preoccupation of elected representatives, at all levels of government, will be … the momentum of history. Indeed,…
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
… installation of South Africa's first democratically elected government referred to as the result of a 'negotiated … beyond the transfer of power to' a…
Introduction
… installation of South Africa's first democratically elected government referred to as the result of a 'negotiated … beyond the transfer of power to' a…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… (NDR) and the struggle for socialism? by Jenny Schreiner , SACP The late 1980s/early 1990s changes in the socialist … and learning within the South African…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… exile. Through your programmes and the service you, as elected representatives and community leaders have a … at which the Freedom Charter was adopted. In…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… by means of democratic workplace organisation based on elected worker representatives, the shop stewards. Shop … half of the 1980s. After the unbanning of…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected … The few staff members at this time…
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… nine, following Mandela, were in alphabetical order: Dr Chris Barnard, F.W. de Klerk, Mahatma Gandhi, Nkosi Johnson, …
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… reached). The CPSA was banned in 1950 and re-formed as the SACP in 1953, which meant that they, in their ideological … Freedom Charter would look like. This…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… that took place in Kimberly in 1991, Gertrude Shope was elected president. At the second conference in Durban in 1993, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was elected…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… an encouraging message. A broad committee of fifteen was elected to "proceed by every means it thought fit to build up … formally established the African…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… days of my youth, my election to the position of general secretary the union was purely fortuitous. In 1927 I entered … candidates, I thought there was…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.4 Dec-Jan 1980
… Africa by Mbulelo Mzamane MUSIC SECTION Reggae Rhythms by Chris …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… spokesperson, Floyed Shivambu and ANC Youth League general secretary, Sindiso Magaqa were also suspended from the ANC … Research and International Relations…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… role played by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA/SACP) in shaping SA’s culture of liberation. This issue has … Sack On the occasion of the 100th…