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BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… is that it was the only party to reject the South African Constitution — on the basis that it enshrined the right to … in December 2017 by Makhosi Khoza…
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… a climate conducive to peaceful negotiation for a new constitution. 6. The current endemic violence creates further … attempt by the state and its allies to…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… by strong opposition from the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP), the South African … demands that the LPSA made to the NP…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… 1960s witnessed attempts by the African National Congress (ANC) to establish infiltration routes back to South Africa … Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) , the military…
EventCODESA’s starting date is set
… start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's future constitution through the Convention for a Democratic South … The delegations of the African…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… A member of the delegation is African National Congress (ANC) President Josiah Tshangana Gumede . During his trip, he … The CPSA has a successful…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… groups such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) (Pettis, 2005). … opposed anti-apartheid, and allied itself with the…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… this. It listed five political preferences for a new constitution. Only 3 per cent of the Afrikaners and 11 per … It goes on to analyse the changing nature…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… the policy and programme of the Communist Party and its Constitution. They handed some pamphlets and other literature … work in unity with other National…
Chronology
… "Silver Jubilee" Conference of African National Congress (ANC); the Rev. Z. R. Mahabane succeeds Dr. Seme as … as national secretary May 15-17 , Deputation…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… elites and middle class of the African National Congress (ANC), in Port Elizabeth it was the working-class leaders who …
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… more daunting challenge, that of crafting a democratic constitution. Ever since the foundation of the African … African National Congress. As a liberation…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… d'Qmbre is published by Editions Seuil, Paris March, New constitution in Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) makes it the … becomes known as the Sharpeville…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… d'Qmbre is published by Editions Seuil, Paris. March, New constitution in Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) makes it the … becomes known as the Sharpeville…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… a stable, multi-racial democracy was a live issue with a constitution being drawn up for the soon to be founded … much more urgent. It soon become clear that…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Calata invites Xuma to the African National Congress ’s (ANC) annual conference in Durban. Xuma serves as the … Oliphant nominates Xuma for the role of…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… ANC provincial chairperson, Members of the ANC NEC, Provincial Leadership of the ANC, Leadership of the … through a national democratic election. The country…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… and even the Pope. In 1990, African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela was freed from 27 years in prison, …
Professor Sir Raymond Hoffenberg
… Tambo, then president of the African National Congress (ANC) Mission in exile. Professor Hoffenberg married Margaret …
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
… (Imbali Youth) 1992 On Common Ground - (an IFP and ANC youth publication) 1995 Children’s creative writing …
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… youth joining the ranks of the African National Congress (ANC) and its military wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), …
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
… (PAC) broke away from the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959, he became closely associated with the PAC. …
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… only legal organisation (the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were by then …
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… of combatants. Just after the 1969 Morogoro Conference, ANC President, Oliver Tambo , addressed a personal note of …
The National Anthem
… of Section 248 (1) together with Section 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, No 200 of 1993, … ("Die Stem van Suid-Afrika). In terms of…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… creative artists, as rich and poor, black and white. The ANC is committed to these principles. It is committed to the … negotiated transition was based. They…
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
… from within SADC and other foreign dignitaries present, ANC Officials, Members of the National Executive Committee as … was won in 1994. Together, under the…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… anti-apartheid movement was the African National Congress (ANC), but they were not alone; many political parties, trade … of segregation; these goals were…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Pixley Seme , president of the African National Congress (ANC), uses the votes of women to ensure his re-election as … Johannesburg Committee 1941 African…