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ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… the decade came to an end, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was established in 1959 after its members split from the … struggle against apartheid. The…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… National Congress (ANC), the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), the Inkatha Freedom Party ( IFP), the Black … until in 1959 some members broke away and formed…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… and its aftermath In the early months of 1960 the PAC leadership launched a campaign against the pass laws. The … parliament new legislation to enable it to…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and the PAC following the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the … National Congress (ANC) and the Pan…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… and return it to dispossessed Black people. In 1990, the PAC had adopted the slogan 'Year of the People's Offensive'. … that the country was facing an…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were unbanned, hundreds of political … of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… against the regime mounted. The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called for protest marches against the pass laws. The … banned the African National Congress …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… surrounded the vehicle, shouting the Pan African Congress (PAC) militant slogan "One settler, one bullet!" Amy was … People’s Liberation Army (APLA), the…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… arrangements for CODESA. The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), arguing that the constitutional talks should be held … National Congress (ANC) of secret…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… militants of the banned Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC). One of the students that the apartheid colonialist … called by the then banned Pan…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Mothopeng a member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were released from Robben Island by the government. Both … for furthering the aims of a banned…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… start of the Pan Africanist Congress' Anti Pass campaign. PAC Campaign will be test Contact 19 March 1960 Under the … his arrest. Find this at www.robben…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. United loosely …
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… and was supported by all parties in parliament. The then PAC leader Patricia de Lille who is currently the mayor of …
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… Organisations Act on 7 April 1960, banning the ANC and the PAC. By 6 May 1960, 18,000 persons were detained since the …
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… at the Rivonia Trial, and 4 Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members. Goldberg left South Africa for Israel on 28 February 1985 and the PAC members were…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Mothopeng a member of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were released from Robben Island by the government. Both … for furthering the aims of a banned…
ArchiveBreaking the chains
… Graphic of PAC and head with chain links breaking …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 4 June 1979
… Security Council Meeting. Dicussions included ANC and PAC terrorism and urban terrorism. …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… suburb near Vereeniging are massacred by police during a PAC (Pan African Congress) protest meeting. The Tomlinson … A nationwide State of Emergency declared…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for blacks … were made and in April 1960 the ANC and…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… her to be involved in the Pan Africanist Movement, or the PAC, [xiii] in the 1950s, and the Liberal Party in 1961. … laws were passed, Head was briefly…
EventPatricia de Lille Born in Beaufort West
… of the Independent Democrats and former member of the PAC, is born in Beaufort West. Read more about Patricia's …
ArchiveNotes on political relations in Robben Island
… and African National Congress relations. Covers the PAC hostility towards the ANC and subsequent improved …
ArchiveBoycott trains
… Putco buses available, taxis half price. Issued by ANC, PAC etc., Artwork of a train with the words 'killers aboard' …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… was arrested as a suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) member. Apparently Khaya had recruited almost the entire Stars of Hope rugby club into the PAC and…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… positions as being the revolutionary arms of the ANC and PAC. It has however an undoubted initiative over the other … the White comrades seem to have…
ArchiveNon Violence News, Third quarter, 1985
… of non violence principle that were made by ANC and PAC on 1960. …
EventDr Stanley Mogoba is born in Polokwane
… Mogoba, future president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1997, was born in Polokwane on this day. He was …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… of the ANC was opposed and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) was established in 1959 in order to press for Black … 1.7 percent of the votes. The Pan…