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ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… of Africa incorporated into National Bank The National Party is established. The Municipal Tram Sheds are built on … offices of the new state. 1914 January,…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… Harmel, shortly before the 1958 election, called on the United Party to mend its ways if a revolution was to be averted. The … to the Nationalists: "What…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to … required to manage the transition…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… first began to circulate in the mid-19th century in the United States, led by Africans from the Western Hemisphere. … the commonalities between Africans and…
EventPatrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot
… 1960 elections, the MNC emerged as the strongest single party with 33 of the 137 seats. Lumumba became Prime Minister … of the mineral-rich Katanga region…
EventMass funeral for the victims of Bisho massacre
… National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party members such as Walter Sisulu, Chris Hani and other … echoed by the US Department of State, the…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… It is this exact year that the South African National Party obtained the power and full control of the South … Africa at this point in time is…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… infamous policy of the present leaders of the Nationalist Party. For over a hundred years, the Afrikaner people have … led by General Smuts. The result was…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… KAU is renamed as the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party, formed by Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga. Kenyatta is … forms a coalition government with the…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… (1986) . The article also illustrates how the Nationalist Party (NP) had a clear political strategy to consolidate the … against the brutality of the South…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… to Bolshevism that he organized bank raids to boost party funds. He travelled to Vienna, Stockholm and London at Lenin's request and was made a member of the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… were placed on the agenda of the first meeting of the United Nations by India, and various countries criticised the … from U.N.O. South Africa was placed on…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… political economy. District Committee of the Communist Party. Josie Palmer is the first person on the right in the front row. 1945. © Communist Party…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… the emerging far-right that culminated in the Conservative Party and tendencies such as the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging … against black workers were not…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 1929 The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, … 20 black and 10 white. The visitors were…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… 44 of 1950 The Act was passed as a result of the National Party government's fear of the influence that the Communist Party of South Africa might have on…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… D'affaires of the permanent mission of Madagascar to the United Nations the Security Council convened on 15 and 16 … Foreign Minister Roelof "Pik" Botha,…
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… base in Pretoria and to show their dissatisfaction to the United Kingdom government for allowing the ANC and South African Communist Party (SACP) to operate…
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… communities against the apartheid system and Nationalist Party rule. In the 1980s, Cassim Saloojee was one of the … Comrade Cas was instrumental in the…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… of 1948 in the minds of white voters was that the United Party (UP) government under J. C. Smuts was incapable of … at the time of the elections in 1948. The…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… who were guests at the Ntuli family home (family of a United Democratic Front member) are killed by vigilantes. 25 … aimed at remedying lack of support for…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… confederation COSATU and the South African Communist Party fell slightly short of a two-thirds majority. The … other political parties as well as members of…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… Ten , Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) , the Labour Party , the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the … Committee, which also decided on the…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… France, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Russia and the United States, which covered much of the globe, and kept half … Since 1948, the country was ruled…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… gain power their first attack is against the Communist Party. Fascism wins its victories by deceit. It pretends to … country is a weak country. How can this…
PlaceSophiatown
… of Johannesburg. The JCC was controlled by the National Party (NP). These new arrivals had no place to go; thus they … sheets and excess materials in…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… the African National Congress (Transvaal), the Communist Party of South Africa, the Indian Congress and the African … be approved in Parliament shortly after…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… where they board a Union Castle steamer bound for the United States of America via Cape Town and Southampton, … a small Wesleyan Mission scholarship, Xuma…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… forced removals by White authorities. The Communist Party of South African (CPSA) is formed in Cape Town . 24 … 16 December, The Communist Party (CP) called…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy (Former Director, United Nations Centre against Apartheid). In South Africa, as … blatant intervention and…