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ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… has been received from Rangoon and according to Dr. Mehta, Secretary of the Fund Committee there; there is a possibility … of Natal Indian Congress forwarded…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… and Chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP) , Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo died on 19 September, 1983, … into a coma. The African National Congress …
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… River Sovereignty self governing status. May, Hoffman elected as first State President of the OFS. 1855 August, JN … dies of a heart attack. December,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… train carriage. 11 September, Accompanied by his private secretary, Paul Kruger crosses the Komatipoort border . 19 … 1902 An archives branch of the…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… among Natal politicians. In April 1945, Champion was elected president of the Natal African Congress. Ngubane, Dhlomo and Lutuli were among those elected to…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… in private farms. Nkobi became the ANC National Organizing Secretary in 1958 and travelled across the country organizing … fall of apartheid Nkobi returned…
Address at the opening of The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Durban 12 November 1999
… Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Leaders of Delegation … alien to the commonwealth. The majority of…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… , Paul Konings , Lesley Lawson , Rashid Lombard , Chris Ledochowski , Jimi Matthews , Ben Maclennan , Gideon …
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… Congress? Its approach was typified by the Party's general secretary, Moses Kotane, whose official biographer quotes ANC … party was essential," asserts the…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… democratic ideas and values. For example, a chief is not elected into office by popular vote, but through lineage, and … was adopted in colonial Natal…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Wessels Pretorius, the son of Andries Pretorius, is elected first President of ZAR The first church is … opened with Hendrik Stiemens as teacher. 1860…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… self-government. Most councillors in the Legislature are elected but the Government appoints the executive. The right … negotiations between the Natal…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… that the ANC must first renounce violence, break with the SACP and abandon its demand for majority rule. The position … equally reject the charge that the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… Butle, Wessel Pretorius; Saf' Afika Siramo; Shacklands, Chris Zithulele Mann; Jenny, Kelwyn Sole; Dust Rites, Michael …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.2 Jun 1980
… Gambanya, November ’76 by Paul Hotz, Home Territory by Chris Chapman, The Pest of Love by Xolile Mavuso, Amandla by …
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… and other activities after the banning of the ANC and SACP. She was one of the early detainees in the 1960s, held …
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… In the 1940s he worked in the ROSA. In 1951 he was elected President of the TLSA, and he campaigned against the … in the post-war penal. He joined the CPSA…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP), were banned entirely and declared illegal, causing … killed under suspicious circumstances. As a…
Document 47. Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
… name did not appear on the National Executive. The General-Secretary explained that Mr. Baloyi had been suspended last … their willingness to carry out this…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… Worker's Union (FCWU) and Ray Alexander , the general secretary of the FCWU, who was in Port Elizabeth to attend a … at the inaugural conference in April…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… both sides accepted and committed to a democratically elected, five-year interim Government of National Unity which … the Apartheid era) was the South…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
… - President of National Youth Organisation and National Secretary of SASM Zweli Sizani SASM Organiser Vusi Tshabalala … Joe Phaahla - President of AZASO…
BiographyWilliam Cock
… with the change to Representative Government, Cock was elected to the Legislative Assembly and also became a member …
ArchiveDo we need dialectics?
… An internal SACP incomplete draft discusing the need to study dialectics …
ArchiveWanted for apartheid crimes
… Red poster with black lettering. Photo of F W de Klerk. SACP Logo. …
ArchiveObituary of Michael Harmel
… of Michael Harmel, member of the Central Committee of the SACP …
Inkululeko - Freedom
… Typescript copy of a newsletter by the SACP entitled Inkululeko - Freedom. Examines recent strikes. …
ArchiveThe South African Communist Party: 65 Years in the frontline of struggle
… Booklet commemorating 65 years of the SACP, also discussing leaders of the party. …
ArchiveCowboys and crooks
… with black border. Six photos of National Party leaders. SACP Logo. …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP). In 1943, he helped A. B. Xuma revise the African … with anti-Apartheid activists and his…