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ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… 1910 Union of South Africa is formed 1912 African National Congress founded in South Africa as a political organization … colony. 1919 W.E.B. Dubois…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… 1910 Union of South Africa is formed 1912 African National Congress founded in South Africa as a political organization … colony. 1919 W.E.B. Dubois…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… to forge links with students’ organizations, notably the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and Azanian … Force', Ikwezi, No 16, March 1981 ). It…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… the 19th century. Its spearhead was the African National Congress, which was established in 1912. Other organisations … which existed up to 1950, the South…
EventSupreme Court declares Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta winner of the Kenyan presidential election
… Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta. Kenyatta’s Jubilee Alliance was formed when he formed a coalition with other Kenyan political parties. The Alliance…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… manner, and was meant to dislodge the two groups from an alliance with African nationalists and other anti-Apartheid … or so, it had been planned for from…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… late 50s the Defiance Campaign launched by the ANC and its Congress Alliance partners was broken. A new approach for confronting … a military and defence…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… and the United Democratic Front and African National Congress (ANC). The violence claimed nearly 20,000 lives … widespread support. Homelands or …
EventMulti-party delegates endorses the Interim constitution
… to demands for a federal government by the Freedom Alliance, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the right … of the negotiators endorsed the constitution the…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… asthma. Dr Yusuf Dadoo , leader of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and later Chairman of the South African … distributed leaflets issued by the Transvaal…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… Mkhabile, who became the Eastern Cape Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leader. They were held incommunicado, but were … Two of the askaris, Mose and the former…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… culture exponents and youth activists organised in the Congress of South African Writers and other anti-apartheid … to answer the question: what does the…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… In 1982, she was recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) underground. A year later, Cherry was elected …
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… by the Native Representative Council, the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Council and other … Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape…
DOCUMENT 37. “Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting.” Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969
… ADOPTED AT THE FOUNDATION CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS, ON 5 MARCH 1955, AND INCLUDED AS A … is in the hands of its workers. Only…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… on two opposing sides: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente was comprised of the United … States and Russia who were victorious…
EventWorld War I begins
… on two opposing sides: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente was comprised of the United … States and Russia who were victorious…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… its shift away from BC and its re-orientation towards the Congress movement, and also account for this development … and also politically mobilise against…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… Council (ANC) Women’s League, the Coloured Peoples’ Congress, the Congress of Democrats, and the Food and Canning Workers’ … Day in South Africa on August…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… NEC, Provincial Leadership of the ANC, Leadership of the Alliance partners, Comrades and friends, We greet you all, … as the key principle of the…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… students) and had been recruited into the African National Congress’s (ANC) underground structures. He knew that his … weSizwe, the undercover armed wing of…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… the ANC, a position he held from 1949 to1954. At the same congress, the military Programme of Action was adopted. This … political home. 1950 January, The…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 98th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2010
… since the founding of our movement - the African National Congress. It has been 98 years of principled struggle for a … fourth democratic government, led by…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… Africa’s democracy and formed part of the African National Congress’s constitutional committee, which supported the … and Textile Workers’ Union, along with…
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… the the union and even certain sections of the Tripartite Alliance. The official COSATU (Congress of South African Trade Unions) press release read: …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… and Professor Z. K. Matthews join the African National Congress (ANC). Cissie Gool becomes the president of the … addresses its inaugural meeting,…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… political upheaval in the country, as the African National Congress (ANC) launched its military wing – Umkhonto weSizwe …
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… of Oliver Tambo, then president of the African National Congress (ANC) Mission in exile. Professor Hoffenberg married …
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… numbers throughout the 1960's were low as a result of 'The Congress Alliances Policy'' This policy gave way in the … 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in…
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… in the discussion and formulation of the policy of the Congress, and (ii) to criticise any official or decision of the Congress; such criticism shall be made…