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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… crisis or to extricate this system from that crisis. Its political programme has been reduced to a shambles. Its … mass struggles this past year, throughout…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… was a filmmaker, a writer, a director, an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the … Witwatersrand. [iv] While at these…
ArchiveThe United Democratic Front (UDF): a case study of democratic organisation, 1983-1987
… the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, University of Natal, Durban, 1998. … of the United Democratic Front, and the…
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: …
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
… team, which consisted of police, military, legal and political experts, further concluded that South Africa's best … elections and a durable resolution of…
EventMandela and Tambo meet in Sweden
… on a mission to foreign countries to ask them to break political ties and tighten sanctions against South Africa in order to speed political change, African…
EventFelix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.
… Felix Mounie was the leader of the political movement Union du Peuple Camerounnais (UPC). The UPC was a major political force demanding the end of UN…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… Africa, the Great Depression had socio-economic as well as political implications. The lives of millions were affected … the cities due to the closure of…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… the report recommended reforms that would increase the political rights and political participation of Black South Africans in the … Black trade unions…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… not an easy one. It began in 1990 with the unbanning of political parties and the release of political prisoners. The Convention for a Democratic South ……
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… aspired to unite Africans in the advancement of their political and socio-economic status Contrary to its aim of … and application, the party was significant…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… work undercover and created the Zimele Trust Fund to aid political prisoners and families. On 18 August 1977, he was arrested on his way home from a…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… and that a strong connection has persisted between the political and the religious in a precedent set by Calvin. It … King (2004) posits the question, “How,…
EventDraft laws are gazetted
… References: Kalley, J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, Greenwood: …
EventPresident Mandela reshuffles Cabinet Ministers
… Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: …
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to University Principals and others
… on the effect of the Commission of Enquiry into Improper Political Interference and the Political Representation of the Various Population groups on …
Chapter 2
… Convention should be viewed as one further step in the political development of the African people. In order to … the twentieth century opened up a new phase…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… in the SASO Newsletter of September 1970 stated the political and strategic rationale for the term "black": it … its analysis of the South African social…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… African country that had a number of kingdoms as well as political institutions by the 1800's. The interior was … Uganda was thus being prepared for…
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: …
EventRuth First is born
… Ruth Heloise First , journalist, academic, political activist and the wife of former South African … Joe Slovo was born in Johannesburg , South Africa. Her…
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… ear. On the battlefield the men of all colours and of all political ideas and of different religions stood side by side …
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… of this tiny Namibian intelligentsia that formed various political cum educational organisations in the 1950s, such as … as Jack Simons and Ray Alexander. It…
PlaceGuinea-Bissau
… languages, and religions. Guinea-Bissau has a History of political and institutional fragility, dating back to its … 2019, the last Presidential elections…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… on the Campaign Part Four Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946 Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947 Special Focus:…
EventA car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people
… operation, as it was considered to be a part of broader political objectives which did not intend to take lives. His … Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999…
ArchiveThe birth of the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… pamphlet clearly describes, with some background, on the political state of the country before the birth of APDUSA. … body. Conference then decided to…
EventChristian Institute declared an affected organisation
… Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: …
EventButhelezi and Mandela meet and call for cease-fire
… this was the first time in 30 years that these two political rivals had met. In a joint statement called the … Hotel Minute, both parties expressed their…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… are so many people here is an indictment on the social and political structure of the South African society. This alone … Male, Female, Young & Old all are…