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Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
… Programme Director Leadership of the Organisation of Cde. Oliver Tambo and the Alliance Business … Mandela and others they formed the ANCYL in 1944, an…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… then to the present situation, and that of the future? Our organisation, the Anne Frank House, is devoted to keeping … the memory of what happened, in a…
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…
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…
Following the January meeting of health ministers in London, a decision is taken that December 1 become World Aids Day
The World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention concluded in London with representatives from 140 national governments. The…
EventPresident Jacob Zuma steps down as President of South Africa
… to work for the execution of the policies of our organisation. The ANC should never been divided in my name. I …
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
On this day in history, 4 of Winnie Mandela's (now Madikizela-Mandela) bodyguards, including Jerry Richardson and Jabu Sithole (coach of the Mandela United…
EventSir Benjamin D'Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of…
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 …
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 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 …