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Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
… command of ANC president Oliver Tambo and senior ANC and SACP leader Joe Slovo, this elite unit executed some of the …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… Dr GM Naicker , President of the NIC and MD Naidoo, Secretary of the NIC, were the leaders of the group. On the … Zainab, Mrs PK Naidoo and Miss Suriakala…
Statement by Malusi Gigaba, ANCYL President, at the funeral of Cde Wanga Sigila, late SASCO Deputy President, Cape Town 23 October 1999
… Chief Albert Luthuli, Oliver Tambo, Dr. John Dube, Bra Chris Hani, Lilian Ngoyi, Anton Lembede, Basil February and, …
ArticleCommercial, Catering & Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA)
… Africa) in 1975, with Emma Mashinini as the general secretary and M. Ledwaba as president. It was renamed SACCAWU …
Zulu Community
… policy, a belief which was supported by Shepstone, the Secretary for Native Affairs. Shepstone averred that the Zulu … Mangosutho (Gatsha) Buthelezi , a…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Mandla Mathebula; Towards a Declaration of Poets' Rights, Chris Mann. Art: Resting Fist: a series of Lithographs, Paola …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… in co-operation with the South African Communist Party (SACP) to fight against the apartheid government by means of …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… re-launched in 1953 as the South African Communist Party (SACP). Poqo continued to operate clandestinely, particularly … at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed:…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… I have the honour to lead and I dare say the masses who elected us to serve in this role, are inspired by the single … culture, we shall immediately take…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… of Assembly comprised of 178 members, of these 166 were elected for a period of 5 years. Four members, one for each … selected by the President and the other…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… they were ambushed and killed by the Zulu . The newly elected Voortrekker leader Andries Pretorius prepared the … who had worked in Kimberley and…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… Natal University’s medical school for Blacks, Biko was elected to the Student’s Representative Council (SRC), and in … African Students’ Organisation (SASO)…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… President Chief Albert Luthuli; African National Congress Secretary General Oliver Tambo; Yetta Barrentbatt, general secretary of the South African Congress…
EventClements Kadalie dies
… such as the Communist Party of South Africa (now SACP). Due to his activities, Kadalie was classified as a …
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… such as the Communist Party of South Africa (now SACP). Due to his activities, Kadalie was classified as a …
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… disunity. The ANC leadership under the late OR Tambo and Chris Hani largely succeeded in bringing these abuses to an end. … Who then were the perpetrators?…
The fight against passes continues
… marched up to Strijdom's office to give them to him. The secretary told us that Strijdom was not there and that we … each other and live together like the…
PlaceSudwala Caves, Nelspruit
… the 2012 Innibos performances by South African artist Chris Chameleon along with the stunning harmonics of the …
EventA memorandum containing a proposed constitutional dispensation is delivered to the CPRC
… and well-intentioned. The CPRC was formed with forty elected members and twenty nominated members. It had the … agriculture, community welfare and pensions…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… under the Tsolwana Local Municipality and is part of the Chris Hani District. The history of Bulhoek Massacre should be … politically expedient reasons…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… only Whites could vote. In 1986, Alexander also became the secretary of the Health, Education and Welfare Society of …
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… negotiations between the Natal Government and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, … was formed to oppose voluntary segregation…
EventLadybrand Four story told at the TRC
… a committee member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Nomasonto Mashiya was abducted with her one-year old …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… of the African National Congress. The Rev. John L Dube was elected President, and Sol T Plaatjie Secretary. Those who initiated this were leading … 1992 p.8)…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… On 24 March 1960, in protest of the massacre, Regional Secretary General of the PAC, Philip Kgosana, led a march of … Square. The march was also led by…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… in the Orange Free State (OFS) of South Africa. Fouche was elected as the second Sstate President of South Africa from … of Agriculture and Water Affairs…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… table, while the chairperson of the OAU and the UN Secretary-General made similar calls. In the meanÂtime, the … ANC's demands. On 15 July 1992 the ANC and…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… question: No, the National Executive Committee was only elected at this Conference. There are only three people who are elected to definite positions, that…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… question: No, the National Executive Committee was only elected at this Conference. There are only three people who are elected to definite positions, that…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… Vice-President of COSATU and the Leadership of the ANC, SACP, COSATU and SANCO at all levels present Mama Winnie … Congress of the People, an open assembly…