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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… the violence on trains. The two Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters who applied for amnesty for their part …
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…
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…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… which caused the CPSA to move closer to the white Labour Party and the dormancy of the ANC, Gomas and other activists … call together to discuss Hertzog's …
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… of the Belgian-supported Conakat, the strongest political party in Katanga. During the Brussels-Congo Conference held … Tshombé maintained a large mercenary…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… the League of Nations after the First World War. When the United Nations was established after the Second World War, … by UN, however, things changed in 1948…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… two existing Workers' Parties, the South African Labour Party and the Communist Party, we see the same erroneous and … unemployed, skilled and unskilled in…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People 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…
PlaceTsolo
… groups throughout the Transkei and Basutoland had united in common revolt. Under the pretence of joining the … where, he felt, they would be safe. The next…