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The death of Mama Luthuli,16 December 1996
… Nokukhanya Luthuli, 92 years old, was the wife of the late ANC President, Chief Albert Luthuli. She passed away … Yet Nokukhanya was a freedom fighter on her…
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… Former secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu, was convicted of having incited a … African workers in protest of the…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… African National Congress. Address to the Nation by ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, on the Assassination … Thembisile (Chris) Hani , 10 April 1993…
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the … are confident of a total rejection of the so…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… that faces South Africa today is that of a Democratic Constitution, it is to that challenge that I shall address my remarks. Since the founding of the ANC we…
EventRamaphosa announces his decision to leave parliament
… secretary-general of the African National Congress (ANC) and chairman of the Constitutional Assembly, announced … his intention to resign from Parliament…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… would cut across language barriers, and he used the 1961 constitution to promote this suggestion. In Verwoerd’s view … . Albert Luthuli was elected president…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the … are confident of a total rejection of the so…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… of South Africa. • To Consider, amend, and adopt, the Constitution and Rules for the Society, Union or Congress. … Treasurer-General. A committee was…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… democracy in 1994. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), which won the election, was in the run-up to the poll … by Jacob Zuma. The election saw the…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… organizations such as the African National Congress (ANC; founded in 1912) and the Industrial and Commercial … by the Pan-Africanist Congress (an offshoot of…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… (ANCYL) comes into power in the African National Congress (ANC) . ANCYL leaders include Nelson Mandela , Walter Sisulu , … and others. December 17 , The…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… The new constitution is a celebration of the creativity of the South … to start with. The early talks about talks between the ANC and the NP government were…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… and the Apartheid government was reached in 1988. The ANC, South African Communist Party (SACP), Pan African … were later unbanned on 2 February 1990, and a…
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…
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…
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 …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… of South Africa in 1910. With the adoption of the Union Constitution Act of 1910 the two dominant white political … 1950 the Nationalist Party headed by DF…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… earned reputation to revolutionize the South Africa’s new constitution. Because of SPEAK’s credible reputation and … of Women (NOW) , United Women’s Congress…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… stand on constitutional reform, calling for: an entrenched Constitution incorporating a Bill of Rights an independent judiciary a federal Constitution in…
Article2016 in Review
… CEO JANUARY - 8th: Zuma delivers the annual 8 January ANC statement. Responses are mixed with all but his most … The ConCourt finds that Zuma did not uphold…
ArchiveThe Presidents Council
… Statement by the ANC Regional Command Headquarters on P W Botha's plan for a new constitution. Points out that the plan totally excludes the …
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… of the court, established as the guardian of the country’s constitution, of which Sachs was a co-author. The son of … with Oliver Tambo and other African…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… deadlock abounded, in the media especially. On 20 May the ANC alleged that someone had tapped its CODESA office … culprits were never caught. Meanwhile, on…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… Forum, Brown was included in discussions with the exiled ANC leadership in Lusaka. In the 1990s Brown, a successful …
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 …
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… married political activist Mewa Ramgobin and served as an ANC member of Parliament from 1994 to 2004. …
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… the highest award given by the African National Congress (ANC) to people who have made an outstanding contribution to …