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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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.4 Dec-Jan 1980
… Africa by Mbulelo Mzamane MUSIC SECTION Reggae Rhythms by Chris …
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyWilliam Cock
… with the change to Representative Government, Cock was elected to the Legislative Assembly and also became a member …
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… , Paul Konings , Lesley Lawson , Rashid Lombard , Chris Ledochowski , Jimi Matthews , Ben Maclennan , Gideon …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
… was amnesiac and obstinate. Constitutional Court Justice Chris Jafta, in last week’s unanimous judgment against Zuma in Secretary of the Judicial Commission…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… as a consequence of these elections, the formation of an elected constituent assembly to draft a democratic … brutal assassination of one of our outstanding…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… saxophonist Mtutuzeli ‘Dudu’ Pukwana, the other pianist Chris McGregor. By 1964 the other four members were cemented: … Its source text remains Maxine…
ArchiveDo we need dialectics?
… An internal SACP incomplete draft discusing the need to study dialectics …