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Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… One was the South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical … self-determination... more The…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… One was the South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical … African Nationlism ' began to emerge…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… evidenced by the formation of the ICU which eclipses the ANC. 1910 Sol Plaatje becomes the editor of Tsala ea Becoana … (Morris: 2004) Lillian Ngoyi , future…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… By the late 50s the Defiance Campaign launched by the ANC and its Congress Alliance partners was broken. A new … led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe broke away…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… of that year. This showed the widespread support the ANC had in the township The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 … the resistance to the impending forced…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… brewing in urban areas. The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General and Journalist attend the … by Pixley ka Isaka Seme . Chief Albert Luthuli , a…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… awareness. In the 1930s this was done through the ANC , the CPSA and the trade union movements. By the 1930s, … (SANNC) renamed itself, African National…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… used by its leaders and by the African National Congress (ANC) for their own purposes. The State also saw the SAAWU as … NIC and TIC had also allegedly…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… a clandestine member of the African national Congress (ANC) and was later to be convicted of furthering the aims of the ANC. At the time of its formation the…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… Party (NP) government and the African National Congress (ANC). In response to the massacre the ANC withdrew from the negotiations, blaming the NP government …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi goes into exile, she joins ANC in Zimbabwe and works in political structures under the … Two of the hostages die; several are…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… beyond black-white unrest, with Inkatha clashing with the ANC/UDF and breaking their ties. Press freedom was … the country and go into exile. In 1980 she…
ArticlePoqo
… part of the time it was subdued by bannings and the ANC's growing stature as the more powerful liberation … Ruvu was conceived by Leballo to be similar to…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… Mandela and other political prisoners The unbanning of the ANC and other organizations Clearly SAYCO, like other … release of political prisoners, and the…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… (Black Opinion). 1912 The African National Congress (ANC) is formed as the South African Native National Congress … weekly newspaper. 18 May, Future…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… debate. Two years earlier the African National Congress (ANC) had adopted its Programme of Action. Phyllis Ntantala … was established in 1959 after its…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… role in the revival of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both of which had … not only within South Africa but as…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… slogans and other activities after the banning of the ANC and SACP. She was one of the early detainees in the … take that work into the most relaxed…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1956 … organised by the Constitutional…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… un-banned, Currie's served has a 'home ground' to the ANC Women's League and Mkhonto-We Sizwe in 1993 and ANC electioneering prior to 1994. Many leaders were…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… who pioneered the organisation had been active in the ANC Women’s League in 1950s. For instance, Dorothy Zihlangu, … Mildred Lesia and Dora Tamana were…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… non-racist. The UDF had a Christian heritage, like the ANC , and in many ways looked like an internal wing of the ANC, but it did not associate with the…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… for the strike on Freedom Day with Mandela as an ANC Youth League member and Kathrada as a Communist Party member. Soon after, at a meeting of the ANC and…
Liberation organisations
… . The UDF was supported by the African National Congress (ANC) in exile. The End Conscription Campaign The South … Civics were organised from the bottom up,…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… countries these included the African National Congress (ANC). Hector Peterson carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo, besides … meetings with the then exiled African…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… 1990. With the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) , Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation … the first in which all South Africans…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… . Albert Luthuli was elected president - general of the ANC in 1952. The goverment imposed several bans on him, … Prize. Picture: New History of South Africa…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… South African government, the African National Congress (ANC) , the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other … in the 1994 national election. The…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… apartheid policies that prompted this violent assault. The ANC Vice-President, Oliver Tambo, was secretly driven across … A week after the state of emergency…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… the apartheid government. The African National Council (ANC) Women’s League, the Coloured Peoples’ Congress, the … a mass organisation, it will draw women…