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PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… passing through, has been imortalised in verse in Chris Mann’s poem, “On Cookhouse Station”. Cookhouse has much …
Early Resistance, the 1913 Land Act and deputations to London
… deputation was sent to London and was received by the Secretary of State for Colonies, Lewis Harcourt, in June …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… from the AFL-CIO, the US labour organisation, and BAWU secretary general Drake Koka ‘had strong links with various … Oupa Mlangeni and Teboho Moremi were…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… President Herbert Hoover's economic programs, the people elected Franklin D. Roosevelt as their president in 1932. … D. Roosevelt was the only president in U…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… However, this did not discredit Dube. In 1935 he was elected to the Executive of the All African Convention. He …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… in Botswana, and the frontline SACTU committee and SACP. He was immediately sent to the rural area of Botswana … Member of the Jewellers and Goldsmiths Union…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Luthuli's life, when the teacher and organizer (and later elected Zulu chief) engaged the world of sport through his … Mtonya entrusted Mvumbi to his uncle…
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… of organisations like the South African Communist Party (SACP), the ANC, South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… Joe Slovo , the former South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister … [Accessed on 23 May 2013]| SACP…
EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP)and other liberation movements under the Unlawful …
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… He joined the Transvaal Indian Congress and became secretary of its Pretoria branch. During the Second World … He led a batch of resisters which included…
An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela
… convene a National Convention before May 31st, composed of elected representatives of all the peoples of South Africa, … liberty, for freedom and for…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… together with Mandela, went to Pretoria to meet the Secretary for Native Affairs to argue the case against … of the Youth League, the message of Lembede, its…
Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA)
… committee of the Federation. Each of the 8 Provinces elected a vice-president at an annual conference held in …
South African Prime Ministers from the National Party
… Charles Robberts Swart (1961-1967) T.E. Donges 1967 (Elected, but never inaugurated due to ill-health) Jozua …
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to develop and … High Commissioner.Milner hoped…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… was referred to as “charterist tendencies”. Nkondo was elected president “in the mistaken belief that he was either … been aligned to the UDF. Wauchope was…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… in South Africa. Joseph Chamberlain was appointed Colonial Secretary. He joined forces with Rhodes to try to develop and … High Commissioner.Milner hoped…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… no support from TUCSA, she warned Arthur Grobbelaar, the Secretary, that the GIWU’s executive committee had an …
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… myself the status of being the source of all wisdom.’ Some elected constantly to propagate this notion as an established … ‘truth’. Thus in September 2009,…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… A parliamentary committee could notify a properly elected member of parliament, a senator or member of a … of parliament for the Cape (West), both of them…
ANC welcomes Cde Mac Maharaj appointment as President Zuma`s spokesperson, 7 July 2011
… (NEC) member and the South African Communist Party (SACP) Central Committee member. He is currently President …
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… into the newly revived South African Communist Party (SACP). He was part of an underground unit that included Rusty …
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… was a member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP). Following calls from the opposition and others for a …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… National Congress (ANC), South African communist Party (SACP), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… of the ANC national officials and for undermining the Secretary General of the ANC on 8 August 2011. The ANC’s … bank notes bearing the image of the first…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… leader, a Rivonia Trialist and the first democratically elected Premier of the Eastern Cape. - Isithwalandwe … dedicated fighter of our movement was a…
Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016
… headed “Mbeki’s shock as ANC turns on him”, written by one Chris McGreal. Among others McGreal said that as President of … the President of the Republic,…
EventHistory of December 16
… (ANC), together with the South African Communist Party (SACP), the South African Indian Congress, the Coloured … need to change tactics and the manner in…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… , leader of the African People’s Organisation (APO) was elected to the Cape Provincial Council. Dr. Abdullah … limited local government institutions to…