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Disbanding, 1990-1991
… With the ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a constitutional … announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… of heart in the rulers. The African National Congress (ANC), on the other hand, expressly rejected any concepts and … resistance, the African National…
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… law. This act was passed shortly after the countrywide '1952 Defiance Campaign', which was organised in protest …
EventKenya is granted independence
… (KAU) in 1947 and birth of the Mau Mau rebel movement. In 1952 in response to the Mau Mau rebellion, the government …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… (NEUM), which was launched in 1943. Changes within the ANC and the formation of the ANCYL Alfred Xuma was elected the new president of the ANC in 1940 © www…
PlaceHindu Tamil Institute Building, Durban
… Radhakrishnan. He was the first vice-president of India (1952-1962) and its second president (1962-1967). His birthday …
ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
… the way to a constituent assembly. April 1991: The ANC publishes its constitutional principles and structures … 25 September 1991: The PAC and AZAPO agree to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… elected Secretary General at first national conference of ANC Women's League. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi returns from … Gill Marcus returns from exile, and…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… African Trade Unions (COSATU), African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP ) formed an … to democracy, the relationship…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… His philosophy of non-violence strongly influenced the ANC in later years. 1899-1902 The Second Angl-Boer War for … Africa were openly sympathetic to the…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… there was tension inside the African National Congress (ANC) between those with more moderate views and those with … with the Freedom Charter , which was…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… Announcement of date for November Preparation and issues ANC constitutional Principles NP constitutional Principles … an unresolved issue between the African…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Phahle grew up in Alexandra Township. From 1950 to 1952 he boarded at St Peter’s School (now St. Martin’s) in … Phahle became a political activist and joined…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… movements, including the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Pan … 1994, was characterised by political violence…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… by underground networks of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) . This has been … the event. Other student leaders were…
EventCricketer Omar Henry born
… Omar Henry was born in Stellenbosch on 23 January 1952.[i] In 1987, at the age of 34, Henry became the first …
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… such as the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign, the 1952 Defiance Campaign and 1960 Sharpeville Massacre. …
EventFormer Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat is born
… of the Royal Military Academy in Cairo . During the 1952 revolution which saw the end of British rule in Egypt, …
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…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… organisations and forces. African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) activity was becoming more and more bold, and evident. In March 1980, an…
Participants in CODESA (1,2, Working Groups and Administration)
… [IFP, CODESA 2] F.X. Gasa [IFP, CODESA 1] DR F Ginwala [ANC, CODESA 2] MR Pravin Gordhan [SACP, Management Committee … CODESA 1] DR P.M.H. Maduna [CODESA 1]…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… there was tension within the African National Congress (ANC) between those with different ideological and theoretical … struggle. Many members of the African…
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
… (assistant) 1944-1945: Prof. P.S. Dreyer (assistant) 1949-1952: Prof. E.S. Muller 1950-1963: Prof. S.P.J.J. van Rensburg 1952-1967: Ds. P.M. Smith 1963-1965:…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… Africa all roads led to politics." [38] In October of 1952 Drum broke its apolitical policy and published an eight … [59] Photographs served as mobilization…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… organisations like the African National Congress (ANC), SACP, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other … through “offering its territory as a rear-guard to…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The … Prof. Z. K. Matthews joins the African…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… apartheid regime also saw the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) becoming the first … in an era of banishment. Forced…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… increasingly more militant with the formation, within the ANC , of the Congress Youth League (CYL) in 1943.This group … more assertive black leaders were…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… the subsequent bannings of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC). The wave of brutality … co-founder of Umkonto we Sizwe (MK),…
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… communists at some previous stage in their lives. In May 1952 Kahn and Carneson were expelled from the House of …