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EventEdward Roworth, SA landscape painter, dies in Somerset West
… was also revered for his portraits. In 1908, Roworth was elected president of the South African Society of Artists. He …
EventNUSAS disbands
… The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) elected to disband on this day. Founded in 1924, the aim of …
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… The FA took part in the1999 election and Luyt was elected to Parliament. He served as a Member of Parliament …
EventPresident John Vorster resigns
… minister after twelve years in office, B.J. Voster was elected to the unprecedented honorary position of State …
EventGeorge Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies
… and when Durban achieved municipal status in 1845 he was elected as the first Mayor. In 1865 Cato was granted an area …
EventThe Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) begins
… near Krugersdorp. A triumvirate of leaders were elected (Paul Kruger, Piet Joubert and M. W. Pretorius) and …
EventLevy Mwanawasa, third President of Zambia dies in Paris , France.
… from politics in 1996. He returned 2001 when he was elected as the presidential candidate by the Movement for …
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… the well-known former US National Security Adviser and Secretary of State, Dr Henry Kissinger, wrote: “From the time … Boutros-Ghali as “probably the most…
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
… by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by the National Assembly, consisting of both elected members and thirty-seven…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… who had worked in Kimberley and Johannesburg, became Secretary General. The meeting to establish the ANC opened … London in 1914 to protest the act. However,…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… who had worked in Kimberley and Johannesburg, became Secretary General. The meeting to establish the ANC opened … London in 1914 to protest the act. However,…
Document 70 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 August 1937
… understand that a Party without an efficient and active secretary inevitably lends to lose its revolutionary nature. … Secretary, W.P.S.A. …
EventThe world pay tribute to former president Nelson Mandela at the FNB Stadium
… Li Yuanchao, President Raul Castro Ruz of Cuba and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the memorial service. A man …
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… The then African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General, Walter Sisulu, was served with two …
EventArchbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal
… Transvaal Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, former secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Nobel …
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… first time by an eleven-person jury chaired by former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was named after the …
EventMoses Mabhida dies in Maputo
… trade unionist, politician, Umkhonto weSizwe commander and Secretary-General of the SA Communist Party, died of a heart …
EventEritrea becomes a member of the United Nations.
… to self- determination. Ethiopia wrote a letter to the UN Secretary General. The UN approved an Observer Mission …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… to lobby as representatives of the ANC. In 1991 Shope was elected president of the ANC’s Women’s League, a position she …
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
… In 1947 Nkomo returned to Rhodesia where he was elected as president of the ANC.In June 1999 he passed away …
EventAllan Boesak is born
… of the United Democratic Front in 1983. In 1991 he was elected chairperson of African National Congress (ANC) in …
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… the government began to restrict its activities. The party elected Winnie Kgware as its first president and Steve Biko …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… family immigrated to South Africa in 1903. Verwoerd was elected by the caucus of the National Party as its new leader …
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Tinto was elected inaugural deputy president for the Western Cape …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1994.
… architects of the democratic victory, as Oliver Tambo and Chris Hani. To them and others who have lost their lives during … merely leave them to the…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… violent clashes between members of the two parties. The Secretary General of the IFP, Oscar Dhlomo, communicated the …
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… joint actions with black workers. When the CPSA's general secretary Douglas Wolton returned from the Soviet Union, he … (AAC). D. D. T. Jabavu, a Fort Hare…
Statement of the ANC National Disciplinary committee in the case of Mbulelo Goniwe, 14 December 2006
… Executive Committee to adopt a Code of Conduct for elected members of the African National Congress. Such a Code … The Code of Conduct prescribes the…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… May 1922 Document 26 Letter from S.P. Bunting to General Secretary, Comintern, 1 January 1923 Document 27 Letter from … April 1923 (Extracts) Document 31…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… of South Africans-and on the authority given us by 1,500 elected African representatives at the Pietermaritzburg … the crisis. We have called on the…