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Women delegates to the inaugural conference of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… Cape Town : 1. Dora Tamana – African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) , Retreat Women’s Vigilance … Canning Workers Union. 13. Cecilia Rosier – South…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… to teach. By 1965, she had joined the SA Coloured Peoples’ Congress London Committee (CPC, London) and co-hosted …
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… time, his research interests were the African National Congress (ANC) attempts to organise farmworkers in the …
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… with some of its members adhering to the African National Congress' (ANC) Freedom Charter which promotes non-racialism. …
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the … and public support for it must also be…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… of Oliver Tambo, then president of the African National Congress (ANC) Mission in exile. Professor Hoffenberg married …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… political upheaval in the country, as the African National Congress (ANC) launched its military wing – Umkhonto weSizwe …
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… of Communism Act. In March 1950 the African National Congress (Transvaal), the Communist Party of South Africa, the Indian Congress and the African People…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… that, by failing to consolidate worker organisation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) missed an … African Communist Party (SACP) and the…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to distil violent clashes between …
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… (Speech at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the President General of the African…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… Albert Luthuli joined them. 8 April, The African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) are outlawed. April, New Age is banned. … a chemist…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of … some days later, one hundred and fifty-six…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… organisation and this covered members of the now illegal Congress of Democrats. The effect of the notice was far-reaching, … I received a letter from the…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
… 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now …
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… Alliance', (which consists of: the African National Congress (ANC) ; the South African Communist Party (SACP) ; the Congress of South African Trade Unions …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… South Africa. While there, he joined the African National Congress (ANC) and participated in some political … largely led by workers’ movements especially…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… numbers of youth joining the ranks of the African National Congress (ANC) and its military wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe …
BiographyHenry Burton
… Sol Plaatje, one of the founders of the African National Congress (ANC), would state in his Mafeking Diary that Burton …
BiographySonja Schlesin
… Gokhale , distinguished leader of the Indian National Congress, arrived in Cape Town and travelled by train to …
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… in the hands of the peasants. The socialists or the Social Democrats who wanted power in the hands of the urban workers. … political force in the Russian…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… whenever it felt most challenged: at the height of a Congress campaign or at a point when its fascist programme … much more sensible for the ANC and South…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… of the Korean people. The attitude of the African National Congress is that the Korean people are competent to solve … demands and aspirations. 8. The…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… sure, did many other people. There were many others in the Congress Alliance who were far more prominent than I. True, I … Secretary, I had been the National…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Lutheran church is founded. 1958 The Ovamboland People’s Congress (OPC) is launched by a group of Namibians in the … the organisation has close links to the…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the Congress of the People (COP) from which it emanated, had so … the Freedom Charter was written. The…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… On behalf of the South African Indian Congress I express my appreciation for this opportunity to … the great Mahatma Gandhi who founded the Natal Indian…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
… Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, … We greet you on this 67th birthday of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, … We greet you on this 67th birthday of the…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… of Unjust Laws," launched jointly by the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress. This Campaign was first conceived towards the end ……