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BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… from jail to a meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, with the ANC's national executive committee. When the South African …
Subbiah Moodley
… (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), recruits. He was born in Umgeni Road in 1944, Durban, …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… closer relations with the African National Congress (ANC) . The MDM also began to focus more on joining together … as talks took place with Nelson Mandela…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… an important voice within the African National Congress (ANC) and its allies against South Africa’s nuclear weapons …
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
… well as the Dutch branch of the African National Congress (ANC) . Leon continued to work at the VU hospital as a nurse …
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… majority. Coming shortly after the Defiance Campaign of 1952 , it was a unique and imaginative response to an … it also provided the stimulus for the…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… to support the banned African National Congress (ANC), which at the time, was a risky thing to do. In February … gathered in his honour for the Eucharist…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… Forum, Brown was included in discussions with the exiled ANC leadership in Lusaka. In the 1990s Brown, a successful …
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… the highest award given by the African National Congress (ANC) to people who have made an outstanding contribution to …
BiographyVernon Celliers Berrange
… as a tour operator as a cover to deliver weapons to the ANC. From Swaziland, Vernon Berrange was to charter a plane …
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… Comrade, friends, fellow South Africans, The ANC centenary represents a milestone achievement not only for the ANC, but for all liberation movements in the…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… the issue. Drum magazine took up the story in 1952, after coming in possession of a dossier of trials of … successful undertaken by the African National…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… Due to his meteoric rise in the African National Congress (ANC) ranks during the 1940s, Mandela was viewed as a major … As a consequence, Mandela was…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… unionist before joining the African National Congress (ANC) in 1940. He immediately demonstrated a talent for … along with Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… material of the 1946 opposition to the Ghetto Act, the 1952 Defiance of Six Unjust Laws, the Congress of the People, … chief issues discussed in Bloemfontein…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… Ivan Stoller (later Advocate), Jennifer Heyman (later ANC) Bernard Berman, Jesse Berman, Leslie Martin, Andrew … early 1960s. This period coincided with the…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… legal profession inside South Africa. The intention of the ANC was to build a united front between the underground and … state. From 1992 to 1994,…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… to obey the orders of the regime to dissociate from the ANC. He was elected President-General of the ANC in December 1952 and earned the respect of world…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… continued to participate in African National Congress (ANC) campaigns against the unjust laws that led to the Defiance Campaign in 1952/3 and against the…
BiographySicelo Mhlauli
… Naude, Victoria Mxenge and Steve Tshwete. A message from ANC leader-in-exile Oliver Tambo was read to the tens of …
BiographyDennis Brutus
… and also drew closer to the African National Congress (ANC) in exile and later to the South African Communist Party …
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… 1987 he formed part of the Afrikaner group that met with ANC representatives in Senegal. After hearing F W de Klerk …
BiographyFort Calata
… the Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1936 to 1949. In 1956, when Fort was born, Canon …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… a leading advocate of the Africanist thinking in the ANC. 1948 August, Godfrey Pitje, a lecturer in the Department … classmates were at first sceptical…
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
… Klerk surrendered office to the African National Congress (ANC). After a few years, Smuts had handed over the UP …
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… Plaatje Award for Best Branch received on behalf of the ANC Lenasia Branch at the national conference in Cape Town …
BiographyReggie Williams
… At the same conference, the African National Congress (ANC) also called for the nationwide boycott of all businesses …
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… officially allowed into the African National Congress (ANC). In 1948, they created a women’s organization call the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL). These…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… way forward in light of the African National Congress’ (ANC) ban and the imposition of a state of emergency. Among … , Govan Mbeki , Mhlaba , Kotane and a…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… Although laws requiring such documents were enacted in 1952, the Government did not begin issuing permits to women … has brought untold suffering to every…