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First National Consultative Conference: Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee, 25 April 1969, Morogoro
… How can we intensify the revolution? What forms of organisation can ensure the maximum mobilisation of all the … subvert and wreck everything whether it be a…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… Federations' and organise themselves in superior forms of organisation, i.e., the factory committees. 57 The Communist … plans, including the establishment…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… liberation struggle through the institutions such as the Organisation of African Unity. The ANC was supported by a … in Botswana led to an uneasy…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… girl who later joined the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO). Thus politicized, she began attending … put it, ‘the leadership…had a…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… "war towns" by the nineteenth century. [5] The political organisation of these kingdoms and towns had two discernible … Poro and other similar societies. The…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… as the New Organising Secretary of the African Students' Organisation appears in the newspaper " New Age ". November, … Africa Regional conference of the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… re-naming of the Boycott Movement. The AAM is an umbrella organisation that took a strong moral stand against apartheid … Act No. 34 comes into effect. Under…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… special value to all human beings. The United Nations Organisation (UNO) is a global organisation that each country in the world belongs to. It is …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… Mbete’s brother - an active member of the Natal Youth Organisation, an umbrella organisation under the influence of the Black Consciousness …
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… which was founded by leaders of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). Rachidi joined the BPC in 1972, and was …
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
A Town in the Sakhisizwe Local Municipality, part of the Chris Hani District Municipality. With a population of around 15,000 inhabitants. The Village is…
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… on ex-offenders in South Africa and worked with the arts organisation Multistory in West Bromwich to bring the project …
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… works in Pretoria, was founded as a statutory parastatal organisation. The objectives of establishing the company …
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… latter do not think they can participate in the unified organisation. The IS reaffirms its first communication. While …
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… The points on which the C.P. insists are: real trade union organisation; strike action not to be ruled out; and freedom …
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
… force in South African politics. In just two years the organisation has spread the message that people with HIV/AIDS …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… to postpone the execution of the decision. The Black Sash organisation also contested the removals and participated in …
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… racism in the conflicted crossover period, particularly as organisation of the Biennale commenced by Ferguson in 1993 …
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… National Congress (ANC) and South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) forces based in Angola. The Angolan …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… international fora with the focus being on the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Riska Koopman I currently hold a Bachelor …
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… students form the Bechet branch of the Azanian Students' Organisation (AZASO), a student wing of the United Democratic …
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… he was the local Pan-Africanist leader. He told (us) his organisation was against violence and that the crowd was …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… Hitler set up the "Hitler Youth" or "Hitlerjugend", an organisation aiming to train and educate the male youth with …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… Consciousness movement including the Western Cape Youth Organisation (WCYO). According to the TRC Report, the Western …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… died in detention and the state banned 18 BCM-aligned organisation in 1977. The revolt of June 16, 1976 saw …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… were printed and distributed to the members of the organisation and on the 21st of March, on Monday, in …
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… Bearing in mind the tasks especially of Chief Luthuli's organisation, the African National Congress, two questions … the renewal of the ANC is fully the…
EventThe Missing Persons Task Team (MPTT) to Investigate Apartheid Missing Persons Cases
The Missing Persons Task’s Team (MPTT) emerged as a recommendation after the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1996 in its Final…
PlaceSteenbras Nature Reserve, near Gordons Bay
Steenbras Nature Reserve includes: The well-known Steenbras River Gorge and Crystal Pools Hiking Trail. These are very popular destinations for abseiling,…