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The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Africa. The first national conference of the Non-European United Front (NEUF) is held in Cape Town. The national … Cissie Gool becomes the president of the…
EventCosatu offices in Durban under attack
… Fighting between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… culmination of a seven-year project, after persuading the United Kingdom authorities to help her realise her husband’s …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… was Patrick Duncan , then a member of the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). Duncan later joined the Pan … by African people in Britain, China, Soviet…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… the largest and oldest civil rights organization in the United States, and from 1910 to 1934 served it as director of … public discourse on race relations…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… A firm supporter of the ‘Back to Africa’ movement in the United States of America, Marcus Garvey founds the African … and Steve Biko is elected president…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, written and signed hours before his death, September … in Cape Town during the last month…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… click here . 29 September, Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process. … Bush awards Mandela the Presidential…
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo Ya Toivo. The party was originally formed to advocated immediate Namibian … from South Africa and became the…
ArticleAreas indentured Indians came from
… South Madras Presidency (Tamil) Calcutta Agra Agra United Province of Agra & Oudh Calcutta Aligurh (Aligarh) Aligurh United Province of Agra & Oudh …
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… political aspirations, established by the National Party to spread its message and strengthen its power base. … venture. They were intended to sell not news…
EventGary Bernard, photographer of The Star, commits suicide in Johannesburg
… four photographers who documented the violence between the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the townships between 1990…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… (BCM) , and had offices in Botswana, England, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany. The … its organisational and structural ties to the…
EventAlan Paton is born
… time in which he studied penal institutions in Europe, the United States and Canada. Less than a year after the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country, the…
EventKing George VI is born
… Commonwealth states. General Jan Smuts, leader of the United Party (UP) and South Africa's war time premier, hoped to use … Smuts and the UP lost the…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one … When I see the labour troubles that are…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… On 26 May 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunified National Party) took power from Jan Smuts' United Party (UP) by 5 seats. The HNP came to power in …
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… early in 1993 on whether Malawi should remain a one-party state. In the referendum, on 14 June 1993, 63% of those voting favoured adopting multi-party…
EventLesotho unable to impose sanctions against SA
… The leader of the Basutoland National Party, Chief Leabua Jonathan, indicated that Basutoland … economic sanctions was not feasible. This stemmed from a…
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… away their weapons. He further commended Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader and Chief Minister of Kwa-Zulu Natal, … apartheid. Mandela also emphasised the…
EventFierce fighting erupts between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and UN forces
… fighting erupted between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and United Nations (UN) forces in Congo. The fight came almost a … Congolese Movement (MNC) became the…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… main political parties. These were the NP, the Democratic Party and the Conservative Party. There was also a very weak tradition of Independent … the African…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… instead of adopting a policy of 'multi-racialism', or a party made up of different groups, those wanting to join the … PAC should do so on an individual or …
PlaceCabo Verde
… the 1980s [iv] . Since 1991 Cape Verde has been a multi-party democracy, with a change in their ruling party in … people to emigrate to other countries…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… the conduct and outcome of this election. The National Party of Hertzog, formed in 1914, won the most seats, forcing the South African Party into a Fusion…
EventThe ANC leader in the KwaZulu Natal midlands, Sifiso Nkabinde, is expelled from the ANC
… National Congress (ANC) members and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members in KwaZulu Natal. After his expulsion from the ANC, Nkabinde joined the United…
EventFeminist writer and activist, Diana E. H. Russell is born
… Town, Russell left for Britain. In 1963, she moved to the United States where she completed her PhD at Harvard … offer Women’s Studies. In 1963, Russell…
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… Apartheid government’s constitutional reform plans, the United Democratic Front (UDF) embarked on an ambitious … of its supporters and prospective…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… Industrial Relations Commission, appointed by the National Party government called for the regulation and tighter … They felt that the union is still young…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… Roelf Meyer, former politician and National Party (NP) negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic … regime. In 1997, Meyer and Bantu Holomisa formed the…