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EventTwo top SA scientists are refused entry into Russia.
… into the Soviet Union during the International Science Congress in Leningrad. The scientists were Prof. L.H. Wells, … were invited to speak at the Ninth…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns … racial groups under the leadership of…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… The African National Congress, South Africans and the world at large continues to … From tomorrow, 9 December 2013, the African National Congress shall set…
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor was born in Durban on 7 December 1953. Her father, Joe Matthews, was a prominent anti-apartheid activist and the son of academic Z…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day
In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to…
EventAfrican Mineworkers' strike starts
A week long strike by African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years old. In keeping with established … the persecutions, detentions and murders of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years old. In keeping with established … the persecutions, detentions and murders of…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… of Communism Act. In March 1950, the African National Congress (Transvaal), the Communist Party of South Africa, the Indian Congress and the African People…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… with any decision taken by the Transvaal or Natal Indian Congress or by the Joint Passive Resistance Council. I make … I wish to make an appeal, first to the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… farewell meetings and receives address from Natal Indian Congress and gifts from well wishers. Places costly gifts in … December 27, Moves resolutions on…
Liberation organisations
… Charter . The UDF was supported by the African National Congress (ANC) in exile. The End Conscription Campaign The … was a push for unity. In 1985, a new…
EventANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
… The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African National Congress (ANC) issued a…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… South African Communist Party , SACP), African National Congress (ANC) and the Council of Non European Trade Unions … offices, and private houses of members…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… of the newly established South African Native National Congress ( SANNC), later renamed as the African National Congress (ANC). The newspaper was published…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… formations, the most prominent being the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) established by Gandhi in 1894, and the … the early part of the 20th century. Members of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
A cartoon illustrating the process of getting to the idealised “American Dream" Image Source Introduction Like communism in Russia, American capitalism…
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… On 8 January 2012, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated a centenary anniversary in … was found in Bloemfontein as South African Native National…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… for them by their own organization, the African National Congress; it was not set aside for them by those who have in … day as directed by our "parliament",…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… The African National Congress of South Africa, founded in January 1912, got a lot … racism. E.S. REDDY The birth of the African National Congress a century…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… the months and days before the start of the Pan Africanist Congress' Anti Pass campaign. PAC Campaign will be test … of "no bail, no defence, no fine", the…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… of Africans to form the South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation was renamed the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923, in…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… He also announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and … 1992 when…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… banned liberation organisations like the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and … the…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… *Tambo, O.R., `Statement by the African National Congress of South Africa on the Invasion of Angola by South … Division, 14-15/7/77. Extracts. *African…
Apartheid power in crisis
… motivated student organisation (Western Cape Students' Congress) which has been re-building itself despite being …
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… Sons and Daughters of Afrika! The Pan Africanist Congress was successfully launched as the liberation movement … the 4th to the 6th of April, 1959. Ever…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… South African Communist Party (SACP) and African National Congress (ANC) leader and Minister of Housing was born in … of the Freedom Charter, but was unable…
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… apartheid demonstrators including the African National Congress (ANC) and the mainly black National Sports Congress demonstrated against a visit to South…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Minute 4 May 1990 The government and the African National Congress agree on a common commitment towards the resolution …