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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi goes into exile, she joins ANC in Zimbabwe and works in political structures under the … Two of the hostages die; several are…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… beyond black-white unrest, with Inkatha clashing with the ANC/UDF and breaking their ties. Press freedom was … the country and go into exile. In 1980 she…
ArticlePoqo
… part of the time it was subdued by bannings and the ANC's growing stature as the more powerful liberation … Ruvu was conceived by Leballo to be similar to…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… Mandela and other political prisoners The unbanning of the ANC and other organizations Clearly SAYCO, like other … release of political prisoners, and the…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… (Black Opinion). 1912 The African National Congress (ANC) is formed as the South African Native National Congress … weekly newspaper. 18 May, Future…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… debate. Two years earlier the African National Congress (ANC) had adopted its Programme of Action. Phyllis Ntantala … was established in 1959 after its…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… role in the revival of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both of which had … not only within South Africa but as…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… slogans and other activities after the banning of the ANC and SACP. She was one of the early detainees in the … take that work into the most relaxed…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1956 … organised by the Constitutional…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… un-banned, Currie's served has a 'home ground' to the ANC Women's League and Mkhonto-We Sizwe in 1993 and ANC electioneering prior to 1994. Many leaders were…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… who pioneered the organisation had been active in the ANC Women’s League in 1950s. For instance, Dorothy Zihlangu, … Mildred Lesia and Dora Tamana were…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… non-racist. The UDF had a Christian heritage, like the ANC , and in many ways looked like an internal wing of the ANC, but it did not associate with the…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… for the strike on Freedom Day with Mandela as an ANC Youth League member and Kathrada as a Communist Party member. Soon after, at a meeting of the ANC and…
Liberation organisations
… . The UDF was supported by the African National Congress (ANC) in exile. The End Conscription Campaign The South … Civics were organised from the bottom up,…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… countries these included the African National Congress (ANC). Hector Peterson carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo, besides … meetings with the then exiled African…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… 1990. With the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) , Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation … the first in which all South Africans…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… . Albert Luthuli was elected president - general of the ANC in 1952. The goverment imposed several bans on him, … Prize. Picture: New History of South Africa…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… South African government, the African National Congress (ANC) , the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other … in the 1994 national election. The…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… apartheid policies that prompted this violent assault. The ANC Vice-President, Oliver Tambo, was secretly driven across … A week after the state of emergency…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… the apartheid government. The African National Council (ANC) Women’s League, the Coloured Peoples’ Congress, the … a mass organisation, it will draw women…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC. In the thirty-six months of its active existence, it did …
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… part of Angola led to the withdrawal of the South African, ANC and Cuban presence in Angola, and to the Independence of … It was also backed by the African…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… under the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) , the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the … formation of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli ,…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… in December 2017 by Makhosi Khoza after she left the ANC, but Khoza resigned from the party four months later. It is now helmed by apartheid-era unionist and…
ArticleFrontline States
… Force raids, Frontline States covertly supported the ANC military wing and continuously discouraged the ANC from using their territories as bases to launch…
OSEO report on Allan Boesak
… legal firm, Bell, Dewar & Hall, to investigate. The ANC could not accept the allegations, and was upset that … his appointment until the after the…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… Reddy meets a delegation of African National Congress (ANC) President-General Dr. A. B. Xuma, 1948 Reddy obtains his … from the Lenasia branch of the African…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… on 27 July, 2013 in Soweto. The party was formed by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and former ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… The initial thrust embodied in the formation of the ANC was to unite all the indigenous peoples to fight for … the Communist Party and the African National…