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ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… (ANC) internal influence was limited by the banning of the party, and the subsequent exiling of many of its leaders … the world. One of the most prominent…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… over communists, but also over all citizens. The Communist Party was outlawed and the teaching of communism was made a … was final, and so was his judgment…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… and financial constraints. During this period, the party attempted to reinvigorate itself by changing its name … significant development was the formation of…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National … However, this relationship deteriorated when the United Democratic Front was…
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…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
… opinion which was not certified by the ruling National Party as legitimate and permissible. Surely, there are, … Communists. It is the same lesson that the…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… the Provisional Government with the communist Bolshevik Party. The Soviet Union (as Russia came to be known) … country also went to the army. For a short…
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…
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 3: Directions of change in South African politics
… present trends; Some thoughts on the common society; The United Party plan for a new realism in South African politics; The …
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… killed and several injured, was launched on the house of United Democratic Front (UDF) activist Bheki Ntuli. … with other members of the SADF and Inkatha…
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…
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…
EventCosatu offices in Durban under attack
… Fighting between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…