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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 … Resistance”, 16 July 2002. Available at…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… of combatants. Just after the 1969 Morogoro Conference, ANC President, Oliver Tambo , addressed a personal note of …
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… an anti-pass passive resistance campaign, Black women in Bloemfontein that were committed to this movement returned to … the history of women’s struggle and…
PlaceFreshford House Museum, 31 Kellner Street
… middle class of the Edwardian Period that still exists in Bloemfontein. The house was designed and built by the … is a typical example of a residence during…
Writing the 1973 Durban Strikes: From ‘black worker unrest’ to the ‘birth of independent trade unions’ by Debby Bonnin
… of Sociology, University of Pretoria) [email protected] The ‘Durban Strikes’ is a signifier for many things - …
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… Tania Oppel, Division for Lifelong Learning: [email protected] / phone 021-9593339 …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… for the strike on Freedom Day with Mandela as an ANC Youth League member and Kathrada as a Communist Party member. Soon after, at a meeting of the ANC and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… first African nationalist movement formed at a meeting in Bloemfontein. South African National Natives Congress (SANNC) … 1924, the SANNC changed name to…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb explosion in front of the … Police (SAP) personnel. This was the…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb explosion in front of the … Police (SAP) personnel. This was the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both … (NNP), was disbanded and some of its members joined the ANC. NNP leader…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… he worked among the black people living in and around Bloemfontein. He served primarily in Bloemfontein, Thabanchu and his beloved Tweespruit mission …
EventVoortrekkers are defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats
… were defeated during the Battle of Boomplaats (near Bloemfontein) by the British under Cape Governor-General … British Resident, Major Warden, from his small…
The Struggle Over Land, The Basotho lose out
… got together. They held a convention or great meeting in Bloemfontein in 1854. At the Bloemfontein Convention, the British recognised the … Free State. No…
PlaceFirst Raadsaal
… Click on image to enlarge The oldest remaining building in Bloemfontein, the First Raadsaal is part of the National …
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… As the first President-General to represent the ANC officially in Moscow, Gumede’s Russian hosts remained … undoubtedly very high. Many of the old guard…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… which used to be known as the Appellate Division, sits in Bloemfontein and is the highest court in respect of all other …
ICA launches 2017 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series with Professor Ngugi wa Thiong'o
… contact the ICA offices at: +27 21 650 7156 | [email protected] or Sascha Polkey at Rabbit in a Hat Communications: …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… police during Apartheid in the 1980’s. Source: warwick.ac.uk A finger printing office was established in …
EventFather Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep
… African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep at a Bloemfontein hospital after being admitted with pneumonia two …
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
… council. This was finally decided by Lord de Villiers at Bloemfontein, whose verdict gave the council control over 3/4 … During this trial, Nelson Mandela…
BiographyGeorge Hallett
… South Africa in 1990 and in 1994 was commissioned by the ANC to photograph the movement's coming to power. A series of …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… she was recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) underground. A year later, Cherry was elected General … struggle: Janet Cherry [Online]…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Representative Council, the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Council and other organisations, …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… been active participants in the African National Congress (ANC) . In every case it has been nationalist ideology which … Hare ), should convene a conference…
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… against the carrying of passes by women took place in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State), where there … Waaihoek Location under the control of…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… camps. Photographical Collection Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century after 48 000 … camps. Photographical Collection…
PlaceCR Swart Building
… The name change of the old CR Swart building in Bloemfontein to honour former Cuban president Fidel Castro … told News24. The Fidel Castro building is the…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against … upon which the younger generÂations could build. When…