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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Document 36 - The first hearing on certification: a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… with the RDP objectives. It was further agreed that an alliance meeting is necessary prior to these meeting to … will only help to justify their wish for a…
Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… policy area that lies at the heart of the workings of the Alliance. This is the whole area of the rights of workers, … clear with the leadership lying with…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein
… National leadership of the ANC and the Alliance, ANC Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Ace Magashule … greetings to you all in the birthplace of the one and…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… Committee, Leadership of the Leagues and MKMVA, Our Alliance partners, SANCO and other representatives of the … week in our history. On the 26th of June the…