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EventEx Defence Minister P.W. Botha denies arms purchase
… seven years into sanctions placed on South Africa by the United Nations. South Africa's involvement in the murky world … to the Human Rights Watch report of…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party, later known as the South African Party (SAP), followed a generally pro-British, White-unity ……
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party, later known as the South African Party (SAP), followed a generally pro-British, White-unity ……
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… as a Member of Parliament for Kimberley in 1948 under the United Party. After the death of his father in 1957, he resigned … was instrumental in the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… and was a national Socialist German Workers’ Party. [1] Communist Party - The Communist party in Germany was a major political party between …
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… than 70% of votes. In addition, his National Patriotic Party (NPP) won an overwhelming majority in both houses of … Nigeria, was brokered by international…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… of Good Hope, Natal and the Boer Republics. The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, … in the Western Cape. It was fronted by the…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… constitution 8 Jan 1912 Formation of the ANC 1948 National Party comes to power 1955 26 June, Adoption of the Freedom … 1980 Zimbabwe gains independence 1983…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… that this welcome of yours is but an indication of the united stand of the Indian people against the Ghetto Act, … event was the coming into power of the…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… completed their education under the protection of the United Presbyterian Church (Church of Scotland). Dr Soga …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… politics in South Africa. Before the war, the Labour Party under Colonel Cresswell was the predominant party political voice of organised white labour in…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… King Hintsa tried to escape during a point in which the party marched along near Nqabara River, he was shot in the …
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… 4 to 6 April 1959, Sobukwe was unanimously elected the party’s first President. Sobukwe's eloquence as a public …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… on 25 August and lists the number of people in the party and their provisions. From Waterhouse (1932) The …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… The United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Apartheid published … The Apartheid policy was introduced by the National Party (NP) after it won the heavily…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
… the ANC's alliance with the South African Communist Party was reason enough to taint not only the ANC, but all … Congress would go even further. With the…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
… 1980 - 1989 1980 January 24, The Bulgarian Communist Party awards Dadoo the Order of Georgi Dimitrov. October 20 - … Mabhida , General Secretary of the South…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… groups in three cities) are in the process of founding a party upon theses which the minority of' the Lenin Club … (particularly the one on the constitution…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… circumstances of migrant workers. Smuts, on behalf of the United Party, accepted the third suggested policy, namely that of … have ever heard." In the…
ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
… Declaration. January 1991: Nelson Mandela calls for an all-party congress to negotiate the way to a constituent … and adds that this will be on the agenda of…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… international issue when it was raised repeatedly in the United Nations’ General Assembly from 1946. A consistent … repatriation of Indians was a key issue…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… was hit by fire from a hostel occupied by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters. Apparently, the gunshots were … news publications in South Africa, Europe,…
ArticleThe impact of Lenin and Stalin’s policies on the rights of the Russian people
… reversed the NEP model. The Congress of the Communist Party accepted Stalin's national economic plan in 1927. The … Second and Third Five-Year Plan (1933…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… made to it by people of varied backgrounds and ideologies, united in uncompromising resistance against racist … in prison or on missions abroad. He led a…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… Arbeiterpartei = National Socialist German Workers’ Party, which is popularly known as the Nazi party in English) on the right and the Communist Party on the…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… clique. There is a political crisis within the ruling party on matters of policy. The ANC will continue to widen … its reactionary programme. We said no…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… from New York University. 1949 26 May, E.S Reddy joins the United Nations Secretariat as Political Affairs Officer in … East. 1956 November, Reddy is…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… country the task of mobilising the people into a powerful united front against Nationalist Apartheid policies … Congress The decision of the Trade Union…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… direct links to the liberation organisations such as the United Democratic Front (UDF), Azanian People’s Organisation … that unions would be more effective…
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party resurfaced in KwaZulu Natal in the late 90's. In order to prevent open hostilities the ANC,…