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EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… members meet with the leadership of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) to recommend a massive defiance campaign to … The Defiance campaign was adopted by…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Twelve years after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a new political movement, the Black People …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and …
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… organisations. The proscribing of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), in …
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… organisations in exile, notably, the African National Congress(ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress(PAC), the Soweto unrest in June 1976 provided a …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… The federation was formed after the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and Federation of Free … of barricades and bombs. After the founding of…
ArticleThe impact of Lenin and Stalin’s policies on the rights of the Russian people
… drive dramatically reversed the NEP model. The Congress of the Communist Party accepted Stalin's national … and Third Five-Year Plan (1933-1938) The…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… would also not be allowed to enter. 26 April, Natal Indian Congress meeting in which all secretaries resigned and new … striking. 19 October, At a meeting…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Government Drs Dadoo and Naicker, addressed a meeting of Congress Socialists where a resolution of solidarity was passed. The Provincial Congress Committee…
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt’s trial begins in the Cape Town High Court
… by Nelson Mandela, the newly elected African National Congress (ANC)President. The ANC stated that " as a former … the ANC wants to take into account in its…
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… Following the National Party (NP)'s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National … on anti-poverty strategies. During the…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… politics caused by the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). It was the precursor to the Inkatha Freedom …
EventThe participants at the multi-party forum negotiations agreed on both new structures of the police and defence force
… and members of the military wings of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan African Congress (PAC) and Azanian People Organisation (AZAPO). In …
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… and first president of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), later changed to African National Congress (ANC). Throughout his political career,…
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… met with the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela. On 2 February 1990, de Klerk … African Communist Party (SACP) and the…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… in the 1950s, Gilder followed the African National Congress into exile in 1976. He aided the ANC through his … Words Barry Gilder, uMkhonto weSizwe, MK,…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… point of view among different members, but as far as the congress is concerned, in the circumstances that obtain … it is a policy, a basic policy of the…
”Africans and San Francisco.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma, May 8, 1945
… have asked me personally what part the African National Congress is taking to bring to the attention of Allied … fire in Europe has been given now"]. The…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… the peace. Dr Naicker, the President of the Natal Indian Congress, declared that this was only the first batch. Others … and members of the Passive…
ArticleThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (The Zondo Commission)
… of State'. In May 2017, following an African National Congress National Executive Committee (ANC NEC) meeting, the …
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… was one of the founding members of the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), which led to him being appointed as the congress’ first president in 1987. Since…
Outcome of the High Court Application, 12 February 2014
… The African National Congress welcomes the court ruling which prevents DA from … Jackson Mthembu National Spokesperson African National Congress Enquiries:…
EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… The African National Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, … South Africa.This meeting was the first ever between the Congress and the…
EventIsmael Mahomed became first black judge appointed to the Supreme Court of South Africa
… in negotiations in a forum that came to be known as the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA 1). Mahomed … on Patricia de Lille’s case, where the…
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… in 1944. In support of these workers, the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) launched a country wide … of the most successful undertaken by the…
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… the lifting of a 30-year ban on the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other anti-apartheid organisations. The …
The Mountain Committee
… (the Mountain), when it was not referred to as ‘Ikongo’ (Congress). The Mountain Committee rallied the majority of the …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… the first meeting of the South African Natives National Congress (SANNC) in their town in February 1912, they sent … in March 1950, Bertha Mkize of the…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… on his inclusion in the cabinet at the SAP Free State Congress, while the Transvaal members who supported Botha thought he should be excluded. At the…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… moved from a commitment to Black Consciousness towards a Congress movement perspective on struggle. The second phase … was that student activists already…