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EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… he was instrumental, along with Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, in forming the ANC Youth League (1944). He was … for planning acts of sabotage. The…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… resistance was broken only in the late 1960s by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness Movement . The BCM’s leaders …
PlaceKroonstad
… there was a Population of 23,994 people. In 1975, Winnie Mandela was incarcerated here at the Kroonstad Prison. In … February 1975, our founding President,…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… PW Botha met and had tea with the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. People have been able to march in their hundreds of … for tougher sanctions against South Africa…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… role in the liberation of South Africa from apartheid. Recognition of this fact in no way detracts from the struggle … they also co-operated on the…
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
… his banishment in June 1961 Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki secretly met and discussed the … He served as political commissar of MK with…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight were Nelson Mandela , the central figure in the trial, along with Dennis … Andrew Mlangeni , Elias Motsoaledi and…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… general elections, Thabo Mbeki, who had replaced Nelson Mandela as the party's leader, became the second Black … held at the Union Buildings, during which…
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… the supporters of the two leaders. President Nelson Mandela was drawn into the conflict when he was invited as a … by a military helicopter to Johannesburg…
PlaceTheewaterskloof Dam, Villiersdorp
… River Project, a water scheme that received recognition from the South African Institute of Civil …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… to the impending declaration of a republic. Nelson Mandela appears at the convention after his banning orders … of mobilising people in the face of…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, and Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who have been in prison since 1962 … - but the continuity of leadership…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, and Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who have been in prison since 1962 … - but the continuity of leadership…
Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… check, I am sure you will make a sacrifice - not for the recognition accorded by the Nobel Prize, but for the cause we …
PlaceNdabeni
… people to Sir Walter Stanford, who was prominent in the recognition of indigenous rights in the Cape, and who …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… This award pressured President P. W. Botha's regime by its recognition of a visionary in the South African liberation …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… that their worries and complaints would be given just recognition, the Ndebele and Shona chiefs laid down their …
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… of world attention. I therefore regard this award as a recognition of the sacrifice made by many of all races, … won for the Nobel Peace Prize the importance…
EventPresidential Job Summit is held
… In response to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and … by the high rate of crime and violence. Click here…
EventBantu Holomisa deposes Stella Sigcau as President of the Transkei
… become Deputy Minister of Housing in President Nelson Mandela's cabinet, suspended the civilian constitution and … of Stella Sigcau who would also be a…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… 1980s, Sister Ncube was one of the founding members of the Mandela Crisis Committee alongside Reverend Frank Chikane and … Committee was formed in response…
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… edition contains tributes from ANC leaders like Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and includes contributions from…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… white minority rule. Following the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990, Mandela personally encouraged her to return. She arrived at …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… they will live and therefore Africans welcome the belated recognition of this right by the Allied Nations. We believe … similar legislation. 6. Right of…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… globalism and market fundamentalism. From 1990 Nelson Mandela and Harry Oppenheimer met regularly for lunch or … of abject poverty. On 11 February 1990, the…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… other liberation organisations, and the release of Nelson Mandela, the process of negotiating a peaceful solution to … with other parties in Tshwane ,…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Hindu and Muslim marriages were eventually given official recognition. Transvaal Indian Women in the Struggle for … and Hindu and Muslim marriages were given…
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… . The Union Secretary-General, Cyril Ramaphosa, and Winnie Mandela , the wife of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the banned African National …
EventNP set to withdraw from GNU
… clear the ANC, and particularly President Nelson Mandela, had decided the time for majority rule had arrived. … was the appointment of Trevor Manuel as…
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela. On 2 February 1990, de Klerk lifted the ban on the … and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). On…