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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…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… trade unions. Leading members of the organisation were elected to the new Council, which had far greater powers than … to play important roles within the…
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. …
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… of Knosiyabo. The image is a consummate example of what Chris Killip, in his essay 'A Photographer's Life', describes …
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… One was contained in a note from T.W. Thibedi to the Secretary asking for the use of a table and two chairs belonging to the Party, to which the Secretary…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… Francophone students.” [xxiii] Ngakane served as Regional Secretary for Southern Africa. In this role, he was … . ↵ [xiii] Ngakane, Vukani – Awake!. ↵ [xiv]…
Stuart Commission Report
… of Mapula group had a big effect - (a Commission led by Chris Hani met the group in Mapula and its report will give details … we cross the river Kwanza and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… is a Kaptyn (Captain). Adam Kok II and Barend Barends are elected Provisie Kaptyns (temporary Captains) 1814 With the … is without a political leader…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… a way to obtain photographs to run the story. White secretary Deborah Duncan postured as the photographer while … call it what you will. [62] Resistance…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… The second is an address he gave as national secretary of the Azanian Students' Organisation at an AZASO … by Abba Omar. (a) QUESTION: 1980 was the first…
Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, December 1964
… on Wednesday, December 23rd, Mr. Z.B. Molete, Publicity Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress, is reported to have … unity in which they irresponsibly…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… in post apartheid South Africa with Nelson Mandela being elected as President. 1999 The second non racial democratic …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… This lessened in 1984 when Mzunani Rosebury Sonto was elected as president of COYCO in 1984. CAYCO was largely …
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… of our glorious movement - South African Communist Party (SACP), Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… with a year suspended for three years was imposed. Naidoo, Secretary-General of COSATU, his deputy Mufamadi and Mayekiso, Secretary-General of the National…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Royal Visit - 1947
… She replied by calling "Traitors" . Mr. M.D. Naidoo, Joint Secretary of the NIC, also had an unwelcome reception. The … matter calmly when the entrance of Mr…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Aid Fund (IDAF). With the help of ES Reddy , the principal secretary of the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid, … (SACTU), arrived in London in 1966 and…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… the Deputy-President marginalising COSATU and the SACP;about good and bad ministers - all of these allusions … this House? Those of us who had the great…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Organisational Renewal, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… with Rule 5.1 (d), the right of any member to elect or be elected in the structures of the movement should be upheld. … Conference of the ANC that members…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… democratic state with a bill of rights. There would be an elected president as head of state and a prime minister as … parliament composed of a national…
EventANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
… The respective delegations were led by Jay Naidoo (General Secretary of COSATU), John K Nkadimeng (General Secretary of SACTU) and Oliver Tambo (President of…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… and Tuesday, December 13 and 14, 1943. The Committee elected Mr. Z. K. Matthews as Chairman and Mr. L. T. Mtimkulu as Secretary, and a Sub-Committee…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Easter in 1992. He shared the stage with Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, Thomas Nkobi, ANC … eventually saw him removed from the list. The ANC…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… break away, and on 6 April 1959 the PAC was formed. They elected Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe as their first president and Potlako Leballo as secretary and…
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
… and in pursuance thereto the President and the General Secretary being the executive officers of the National … of (a) The hereditary Kings, Princes and…
ArticleThe House in session
… With the parties and their representatives elected, the Tricameral went into operation and the various …