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ArticleNamibian Timeline
… execution of their leader, a new leader, Eduard Lambert is elected who signs a treaty with Leutwein. Leutwein mounts a … the leadership is held in September,…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… Industrial Union was established with Bernard Sigamoney as secretary and Gordon Lee as chairman, both members of the …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… was Oupa Mlangeni, and Teboho Moremi was appointed secretary. Not much is known about the other members of the … of the structure and election of a committee…
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… the unrest and arrested UDF officials Lekota, publicity secretary, Molefe, national secretary, and Chikane, Transvaal Provincial secretary, together with…
EventMarais Viljoen is inaugurated as state president
… as South Africa's fifth state president after he had been elected on 4 June 1979. Viljoen replaced B.J Vorster who had resigned on that date. Before being…
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… Congress (ANC) ; the South African Communist Party (SACP) ; the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) …
EventDemocratic Alliance federal conference in Port Elizabeth
… in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Mmusi Maimane, 34, was elected the New Black DA leader to succeed Ms Zille. 1,425 … as the party's new federal chairman,…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Desai with conspiracy, furthering the aims of ANC and the SACP, and endangering the maintenance of law and order; Essop … Groutville Reserve in Natal to be…
Zola Skweyiya, former Social Development Minister, to work at ANC Headquarters, 7 May 2009
… be moving to the Union Buildings" said Gwede Mantashe, ANC Secretary General. Contrary to current speculative and … us by the South African people. Issued by…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… apartheid regime to a society under a democratically elected government. Prince Buthelezi (95) was born on 27 …
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… NEC members Deputy Chairperson Provincial Secretary Deputy Secretary Provincial Treasurer PEC members … ANC must not be controlled by administrative staff…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… 13 September, F.C Eloff, Presidential Private Secretary, is instructed to visit the goldfields. 14 … November, Elections are held for Johannesburg's first…
EventTony Leon is born
… Alliance - Tony Leon was born in Durban. In 1994 he was elected Member of Parliament and leader of Democratic Party. … the New National Party. After the…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… operations and activities. Below the commander was the secretary of Defense and Transport, who was in charge of … who were responsible for making…
ArticleThe New Group
… its founding members were Gregoire Boonzaaier who was also elected as its first chairman, Lippy Lipshitz, Frieda Lock, …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… XUMA President-General of the African National Congress Secretary-Organiser Atlantic Charter Committee, South Africa. … and Tuesday, December 13 and 14, 1943…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… Gaur Radebe was the main speaker, and the conference elected a 15-man committee, which included Radebe, … offices in Kruis Street in Johannesburg, and…
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became the first elected woman as Head of State in Africa. Johnson-Sirleaf’s … Karman of Yemen. History repeated itself when she was…
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… President Nelson Mandela met with the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali at Dakar. The two … (PAC) President Clarence Makwetu also…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… Of course, healthy competition between individuals to be elected to different posts is a natural part of any … or merely technocratic ways of working. Many…
Chronology
… Johannesburg to Cape Town under Moses Kotane as national secretary May 15-17 , Deputation from the ANC and Congress of … adopts the Programme of Action. Dr…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… the former National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and ANC secretary-general, Cyril Ramaphosa, as a director on the … took action, but as citizens we are…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… Mandela at the inauguration of the first Democratically elected President of the Republic, who happened to be himself … and the delegation returned home…
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… win Congo’s independence from Belgium in 1960. He was elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo, the first legally elected Prime Minister for the…
EventHendrik Jacobus Coetsee is born
… became actively involved in politics in 1968 when he was elected MP for the Bloemfontein West constituency. As a MP, … parties. After the first democratic…
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… Alliance). She became a member of parliament and was elected mayor of the Western Cape, where the Democratic Alliance dominated. In 2007 she was elected…
EventTranskei Constitution Act No 48 commences
… The territorial authority was replaced by a partially elected legislative assembly, consisting of 64 traditional leaders and 45 elected members, with a…
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… Sifiso Nkabinde, former Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… of 1938. After the Economic Volk Congress of 1939, he was elected as chairman of the Reddingsdaadbond, an organization … a founder member of the same…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. …