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EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… African government. This is because within the ruling United Party (UP) there was a split between those who favoured … Hertzog joined D.F Malan's "purified"…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… conference as a beacon marking out the road to a united anti-Nationalist front in which all sections of … about what they are doing, and about the tactics of…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on International Relations, 27-30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… of the West, in particular the Group of 8 Countries, (United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States, Russia, Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands), … and…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… which had been given to SWAPO of Namibia in 1973. The United Nations, fed up with the endless prevarications by … title and used its contacts within the…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… The organisation was prominent in the establishment of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the mid-1980s. The formation … to spearhead the struggle. On the…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… as a constructive proposal by both the opposition United Party (UP) and the Progressive Party (PP). In 1994, following threats to boycott the first …
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… on a scholarship to Princeton University in New Jersey, United States of America (USA), as a Visiting Fellow in the … Studies and Diplomacy at the University…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… Buthelezi accused Zwelithini of interfering in party politics in violation of his role as a ceremonial head … the two were mended. This followed the…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… inaugural conference. Despite holding this conference, the party was launched owing to harassment by the government. … went on to reorganise itself and on…
EventFive developed countries recall their Ambassadors from South Africa
… The United States, Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and … its Apartheid policy which was introduced by the National Party government in 1948. The…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… Europe Although relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had been strained in the years before World War … As late as 1939, it seemed highly…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… and the establishment of the USSR, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), established in 1922, became a … Marked by his experience, Gumede began to…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… except Coloured voters, handing them over to this or that Party in the hope of getting some concessions by way of … Prom time to time they did enter into…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… to end the conflict in Libya. South Africa voted for the United Nations Security Council resolution authorising the … 26 October Palestine’s bid to become a…
EventExpelled ANC leader abandons court action
… a national conference to consider the formation of a new party, which he ultimately did together with Roelof Meyer, called the United Democratic Movement …
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… more attention towards changes in South Africa and United Nations support than towards their prospective … Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, was a multi-racial…
EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
… Kwazulu homeland claims that attacks by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) men on United Democratic Front UDF (UDF) family members were … self-defence. This was…
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). His position as a guard for a security company … In 1990 Shilowa was elected the Vice…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… banned and forced underground, and although the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA) was not banned by the … ANC and PAC. Despite the LPSA’s non-violent…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… orator and witty debater." In 1948 Eban became Israel's United Nations (UN) representative and served simultaneously as ambassador to the United States from…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… Afrikaner intelligentsia began to question the National Party’s vision of what South African society should be. … on the course of the struggle within the…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… intensification of the armed struggle; · the world was united against apartheid. 1.2 At the same time the liberation … in line with the emerging…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… including student bodies, trade unions, the Communist Party and sections of the British Labour Party. After the … brief court appearance the men are freed…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… to the apartheid system, a man who walked out of his own party, the Progressive Federal Party, not long ago? TAMBO : … was asked to comment about the recent…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Bram begins to consider himself a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) (from account given during his … in Russia in 1932 or as a…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first Marxist-Leninist parties on … parties in the world. The SACP, known…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… became radicalised by members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) who joined it and served in its … mid 1940s they began to leave the SL. When the…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… a mass dumping on its territory forced the Nationalist Party government (Nats) to accept the presence of Indians in … 2011) The conference called for the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… struggle focuses largely on the conflict between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) . Equally significant was the bloody ……
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… culmination of a seven-year project, after persuading the United Kingdom authorities to help her realise her husband’s …