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ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… Villiers, NP Chris Hani, SACP Helen Suzman Nelson Mandela, ANC Absent from the Convention was the Pan Africanist … Afrikaners through a white referendum …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… SANNC changes its name to the African National Congress (ANC). To read other resolutions made at this conference click here . 1925 … the ties between the…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and 1930s was consolidated … a more radical campaigning agenda. The…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of … and deputations. In December 1949, with the…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… soon as possible". Eight months after the unbanning of the ANC and the release of Nelson Mandela, President F.W. De …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… responsible for the growth in popular support for the ANC in this region, which was not a stronghold of the ANC. For instance, after his election in 1984,…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… did not cease to work with the African National Congress (ANC) to end apartheid and write as well as encourage others … education. [ii] His family had an…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… terrorism and sabotage by the African National Congress (ANC), and growing internal opposition to Apartheid. South …
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo , was elected the ANC’s national chairperson…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Covenant’. Since the 1920s, the day was also used by the ANC, SACP and other political organisations to mount protest … weSizwe (MK) and launch of the armed…
Conflict among civic organisations
… WECUSA was formed and launched in 1989 as an alliance of ANC aligned squatter leaders, particularly areas that were … The new organisation brought together a…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… of choice, but also because the African National Congress (ANC) was reserved for male membership. This began to change when in 1943 the ANC decided to allow…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… in December 1960. It charted the way forward following the ANC and PAC’s banning and the government’s holding of a … by nearly 1 400 delegates, adopting some…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… shake up the "Old Guard" in the African National Congress (ANC) and set the ANC on a militant course, this "Class of … through the University of South Africa…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… Unlawful Organisations Act on 7 April 1960, banning the ANC and the PAC. By 6 May 1960, 18,000 persons were detained … June 1987. Exile circumstances were…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Malibongwe and One Never Knows. Keywords Lindiwe Mabuza, ANC, Chief Representative, One Never Knows, Malibongwe, South … theirs’. [15] She joined the African…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… May Day) in 1950. The CPSA, African National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress (SAIC) passed a … the history of the CPSA, but also for their…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… more advanced than their leaders. The history of the ANC, the PAC alleged, was studded with evidence that leaders … If the people had become disillusioned…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… organisation from the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) staged an anti-pass … control headquarters of the African National…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… COSATU spends about R2 million campaigning for the ANC. After a decline in the vote towards the ANC, General secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi warns the ……
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… of pass laws Planning the 1960 anti-pass campaigns: ANC and PAC At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… thesis can be viewed to be intrinsically linked with the ANC’s political stance as the original four wagon wheel spokes on the ANC’s flag represented the…
ArticleSharpeville
… the country and the world. The African National Congress (ANC) President, Chief Albert Luthuli, called on people to … Unlawful Organisations Act, on 7 April…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against … upon which the younger generÂations could build. When…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… interim leadership group of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990 and was elected to the National Assembly of the South African Parliament in 1994,…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… one of 27 young members of the African National Congress (ANC) who goes into exile following the South African … of human resource development and deployment…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… in his discussions with African National Congress (ANC) branches in Natal. ” Some took pride in the 1949 riots.’ … Naicker, in turn, delivered the opening…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… students aligned to the UDF and African National Congress (ANC) oppose an attempt by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the … PW Botha declares that the UDF is an…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… (GNU) under the leadership of African National Congress (ANC). Clause 88 of the interim Constitution of South Africa … were rejected as invalid. The African…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… Indian Congress (SAIC) and the African National Congress (ANC) formed a joint council "to advance and promote mutual … among our respective peoples." A.W.G…