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EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… Allan Boesak, liberation theologian, chairman of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for Peace and…
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… Hasting Kamuzu Banda was the leader of Nyasaland which became Malawi in in 1964, with him as its … Malawi a one party state led by the Malawi African…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… Winnie Mandela, at the time wife of imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela, was pelted with eggs … Court to show support for Lindi…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now … on 2 September 1947. He studied at the…
Samuel Malinga
… Mr Samuel Malinga,aged 45,died in the intensive care unit of the Edendale Hospital in Pietermaritzberg on 22 February … and taken to Pietermaritzberg where…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… 8 January 2005 Compatriots and comrades, On the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of the African National Congress, January 8th 2005, we extend our greetings…
The melody of freedom
… died in hospital. Fear seems to reign among the defenders of apartheid. Fear of revolutionary songs, fear of South … apartheid, under the leadership of the…
BiographyRev. Mangena Maake Mokone
… (Transvaal) in 1851. His mother was daughter of Sephate and was from a royal lineage. In 1863, his father, a junior chief of Bogaga, was killed in the Swazi …
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was…
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… The people of South Africa, particularly the youth of our country, are renowned for their fearless challenge to … gold colours of their organisation, the…
Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo
… in the Eastern Cape. He later moved to the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg where he qualified in BSc … Applied Mathematics. Masondo joined the …
Elias Monare
… [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955 at the age of 31 to ‘Glen Red [Glen Road]’ in the Vryburg district … related to his banishment, Monare was…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… Comrade Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic of Nicaragua and Coordinator of the Executive Commission of … and revolutionary greetings from the African…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… In 1979 the African National Congress launched an attempt to receive international … recognition as the “sole legitimate representative of the people of…
EventTwo ANC members convicted of terrorism training
… Two members of the African National Congress, Mr Mzimasi Isaac Giwu and … in Bisho for terrorism training and being in possession of firearms and explosives…
Statement of ANC National Working Committee, 5 September 2011
… The National Working Committee of the African National Congress, met today in its regular … by: Gwede Mantashe ANC Secretary General African National…
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
… Anti-Pass Council in 1944. He was best known as a member of the Western Native Township advisory board and one of the principal organisers of resistance to…
BiographyRichard S. Canca
… about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from the University of Cape Town. In 1948 he was an AAC delegate to the joint conference of the AAC and the African…
BiographyAlexander Kgobe
… Province] wrote threatening letters to the principal of the La Pucella school, insisted that he was the headman of La Pucella and interfered in NAD [Native…
BiographyMtetunzima Ganyile
… was described in the motivation for his banishment as one of the leaders of the Pondoland revolt and ‘a strong supporter of the banned ANC [ African National…
BiographyChris Qwazi
… started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth … . He photographed this era and continues…
Chapter II - More of the same
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph After almost five years of house arrest, I was eagerly but anxiously looking forward … won." That had been my promise twelve…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… Today is January 8th, the birthday of the African National Congress. This 68th anniversary of … of uniting all the oppressed and toiling masses and all…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… 1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the … return trips from Batavia (i.e. present day Java as part of…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck had signed a contract with the … Dutch East India Company (VOC) to oversee the…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact … was launched by African people in response to their loss of…
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… The formation of the VOC in Netherlands in 1602 increased Dutch dominance of the in the maritime trade. Acting on behalf of the Dutch government, the company…
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a …
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
… Castro, I have been assigned the great honour, as leader of the African National Congress delegation, to propose a vote of thanks on behalf of the national…