- Contents
- O'Malley's political interviews
- Padraig O'Malley
- Pre-Transition (1902-1989)
- Transition (1990 - 1994)
- Post-Transition (1994 - 1999)
- Transformation (1999-)
- General Information
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Biographies
- Akhalwaya, Ameen
- Alant, Theo
- Asmal, Kader
- Ayob, Ismail
- Babb, Glen
- Bam, Fikile
- Barnard, Niel
- Battersby, John Daniel
- Bernstein, Hilda
- Bethlehem, Ronnie
- Beyers, Andries
- Bishop, Bruce
- Bizos, George
- Blomkamp, Peter
- Boesak, Allan
- Boraine, Alexander Lionel (Alex)
- Boshoff, Carel Willem Hendrik
- Botha, Louis
- Botha, Roelof Frederik (Pik)
- Buchner, Jac
- Bunting, Brian Percy
- Burton, Mary
- Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha
- Buys, Louis
- Cajee, Amien
- Camerer, Sheila Margaret
- Cameron, Edwin
- Carolus, Cheryl
- Carrim, Yunus
- Chalmers, Judy
- Chaskalson, Arthur
- Chiba, Laloo
- Chikane, Frank
- Cleary, Sean
- Clewlow, Warren
- Coetsee, Hendrick Jacobus (Kobie)
- Coetzer, Piet
- Cooper, Sathasivan (Saths)
- Cronin, Jeremy Patrick
- Davidson, Christo
- De Beer, Samuel Johannes (Sam)
- De Beer, Zacharias Johannes (Zach)
- De Klerk, Frederik Willem (FW)
- De Klerk, Willem
- De Lange, Jan Pieter
- De Lille, Patricia
- De Swart, Salimon (Salie)
- De Tolly, Jenny
- De Villiers, Dawid Jacobus (Dawie)
- Delport, Jacobus Tertius
- Derby-Lewis, Clive
- Desai, Shabaan Rissiek (Barney)
- Dhlomo, Oscar Dumisani
- Dingake, Michael
- Dolo, Pauline
- Dommisse, Ebbe
- Du Plessis, Barend Jacobus
- Ebrahim, Hassen
- Eglin, Colin Wells
- Ehrenreich, Tony
- Evans, Bishop Bruce
- Evans, Gavin
- Felgate, Walter Sidney
- Fismer, Christiaan Loedolff (Chris)
- Fivaz, John George
- Fletcher, Prudence
- Gasa, Faith Xolile
- Gelb, Stephen
- Gerwel, Gert Johannes 'Jakes'
- Gildenhuys, Antonie
- Giliomee, Hermann
- Golding, Marcel
- Goldstone, Richard
- Gordhan, Pravin Jamnadas
- Gouws, Kobie
- Gqozo, Joshua (Oupa)
- Graham, Paul Malcolm
- Gumede, Archibald Jacob (Archie)
- Gumede, VC
- Gwala, Harry Themba
- Hall, John
- Hani, Martin Thembisile (Chris)
- Harber, Anton
- Harman, Francois
- Hartzenberg, Ferdinand (Ferdi)
- Heath, Willem H
- Hendrickse, Helenard Joe (Allan)
- Heyns, Johan
- Hofmeyr, William Andrew (Willie)
- Holomisa, Harrington Bantubonke (Bantu)
- Holomisa, Sango Patekile
- Howard, Randall
- Hurley, Dennis
- Hutchings, Gillian
- Irvine, George
- Jack, Mkuseli
- Jack, Zonke (Pro)
- James, Wilmot Godfrey
- Jenkin, Tim
- Joffe, Joel
- Johnson, Shaun
- Jones, Colin Vivian
- Jordan, Zweledinga Pallo
- Joseph, Daso
- Joseph, Paul
- Kane-Berman, John
- Kasrils, Ronald (Ronnie)
- Kathrada, Ahmed Mohamed (Kathy)
- Kearney, Paddy
- Keys, Derek Lyle
- Khoza, Themba
- Klaaste, Aggrey
- Konigkramer, Arthur Jacob
- Kriegler, Johannes Christiaan (Johann)
- Kriel, Hernus
- Kögl, Jürgen
- Langa, Pius Nkonzo
- Lekota, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick
- Leon, Anthony James (Tony)
- Liebenberg, Christo Ferro (Chris)
- Louw, Eugene
- Love, Janet
- Luthuli, Albertina
- Mabandla, Brigitte Sylvia
- Mabizela, Stanley
- Maduna, Penuell Mpapa
- Maharaj, Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac)
- Mahomed, Yusuf
- Makgoba, Malegapuru William
- Makwetu, Clarence Mlami
- Malan, Magnus
- Malan, Wynand Charl
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlanhla
- Mangope, Lucas Manyane
- Manning, Claudia
- Manuel, Trevor Andrew
- Maphai, Vincent
- Masekela, Barbara
- Masondo, Andrew
- Matiso, Khaya
- Matthews, Vincent Joseph (Joe)
- Mayekiso, Moses Jongizizwe
- Mbeki, Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa
- Mboweni, Tito Titus
- Mdlalose, Frank Themba
- Meer, Fatima
- Meiring, Georg
- Meiring, Kobus
- Memela, Tootsie
- Mesatywa, Jeanette
- Meyer, Roelf Petrus
- Mhlaba, Raymond
- Mhlongo, Ben
- Mkhatshwa, Smangaliso
- Mkhize, Goodwill
- Mkwayi, Wilton
- Mogoba, Stanley Mmutlanyane
- Mokaba, Peter Ramoshoane
- Molefe, Popo Simon
- Moleketi, Jabu
- Momoniat, Ismail
- Moodley, Strinivasa (Strini)
- Moolman, Johan
- Moosa, Mohammed Valli
- Morobe, Murphy
- Moseneke, Dikgang Ernest
- Motlana, Ntatho
- Motlanthe, Kgalema
- Motolla, Emanuel
- Motshekga, Dr. Mathole S.
- Mufamadi, Fholisani Sydney
- Mvelase, Dipuo
- Myeni, Musa
- Mzizi, Abraham & Gertrude
- Nagerman, Arthur
- Naidoo, Indres
- Naidoo, Jayaseelan 'Jay'
- Naidoo, Jayendra
- Naidoo, Phyllis
- Naidoo, Steve (Nandha)
- Nair, Billy
- Naudé, Christiaan Beyers
- Ndlovu, Curnick
- Ndlovu, Humphrey
- Nefolovhodwe, Pandelini
- Nel, Christo
- Nel, JJ
- Ngakane, Nomsa
- Ngakane, Shadrack
- Ngcuka, Bulelani
- Ngcukana, Cunningham
- Ngubane, Baldwin Sipho (Ben)
- Ngubane, Harriet
- Nkabinde, Sifiso
- Nqakula, Charles
- Nyanda, Siphiwe
- Nzimande, Emmanuel Bonginkose (Blade)
- Omar, Abdullah Mohamed
- Oriani-Ambrosini, Mario GR
- Pahad, Essop
- Patel, Dipak
- Phosa, Mathews
- Pigou, Piers
- Pillay, Ivan
- Pillay, Vella
- Potgieter, Flip
- Raadschelders, Lucia
- Rajab, Mahmoud
- Ramaphosa, Matamela Cyril
- Reddy, Fred
- Rhoodie, Dr Nic
- Rory, Riordan
- Sachs, Albert Louis (Albie)
- Salojee, Rashid AM
- Saloojee, Cas
- Sauls, Freddie
- Schlemmer, Lawrence
- Schumann,
- Scott, Mpho
- Seedat, Hassim
- Selebi, Jackie
- September, Connie
- Seremane, Wetsho-Otsile Joseph (Joe)
- Sexwale, Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo)
- Shabalala, Thomas Mandla
- Shaik, Mo
- Shaik, Yunus
- Shilowa, Mbhazima (Sam)
- Shubane, Khehla
- Shubin, Vladimir
- Sisulu, Walter Max Ulyate
- Sithole, Jabu
- Sizane, Richard K
- Skhosana, Mahlmola
- Skweyiya, Zola Sidney Themba
- Slovo, Joe
- Soal, Peter George
- Sonn, Franklin
- Spaarwater, Maritz
- Sunter, Clem
- Sutcliffe, Michael
- Suttner, Raymond Sorrell
- Swilling, Mark
- Terre'Blanche, Eugene
- Terreblanche, Sampie
- Tholole, Joe
- Trehwela, Paul
- Treurnicht, Andries Petrus
- Tshabalala, Henry
- Tshabalala, Vuso
- Tugwana, Gabu
- Tutu, Desmond Mpilo
- Twala, Linda
- Twala, Philisile
- Van Den Heever, CM
- Van Der Merwe, CJ (Stoffel)
- Van Der Merwe, Dannhauser
- Van Der Merwe, Hendrick
- Van Der Merwe, Jacobus Hercules (Koos)
- Van Der Merwe, Johan
- Van Rensburg, Danie & Anna
- Van Schalkwyk, Marthinus
- Van Zyl Slabbert, Frederik
- Verryn, Paul
- Viljoen, Constand Laubscher
- Viljoen, Gerrit
- Vlok, Adriaan Johannes
- Vogelman, Lloyd
- Vosloo, Theunissen (Ton)
- Wagener, Johannes Hendrik (Jan)
- Weinberg, Sheila
- Wessels, Leon
- Whitehead, John
- Wilson, Francis
- Woods, Gavin
- Worrall, Denis John
- Xego, Mike
- Xundu, Mcebisi Osman
- Yacoob, Zak
- Yengeni, Tony Sithembiso
- Zille, Helen
- Zondi, Keith Musakawukhethi (Musa)
- Zuma, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa
- Zwelithini, King Goodwill
- !Khoisan X
- Howard Barrell 'Conscripts to their Age'
- Conscripts To Their Age: African National Congress Operational Strategy, 1976-1986
- List Of Figures And Charts
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Note On Sources And Footnoting
- Postscript Ante
- Chapter One: Old Battle-Cries And Borrowed Language
- Chapter Two: You Only Win Once
- Chapter Three: Unprepared
- Chapter Four: A Turn To The Masses
- Chapter Five: Armed Propaganda And Non-Collaboration
- Chapter Six: Towards A Broad Front
- Chapter Seven: Planning For People's War
- Chapter Eight: Leading From Behind
- Chapter Nine: Tactics Of Talks, Tactics Of Confrontation
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Conscripts To Their Age: African National Congress Operational Strategy, 1976-1986
- Organisations
- African National Congress (ANC)
- The African National Congress
- A Chronological History of the ANC
- ANC Structures
- The ANC according to itself
- The ANC's perception of the historical context
- List of ANC Members who Died in Exile March 1960 - December 1993
- Died at the hands of the enemy
- Zimbabwe - Wankie 1967
- Wankie: 1967 (Unknown Battle)
- Sipolilo 1967-1968
- Comrades Killed In Rhodesia In 1979
- Zimbabwe Post-Independence Killings
- Angola - Letter Bombed/SADF Raid
- Botswana - Assassinations/Bombs/Raids
- Mozambique - Assassinations/Bombs/Raids
- Lesotho - Raids/Assassinations
- Zambia - Assassinations/Bombs
- Namibia - Caprivi, Katimo Molilo 1970s
- Swaziland - Assassinations/Raids/Bombs/Poison
- France
- Angola - Deaths Due To Unita Ambushes
- Comrades Killed By Mutineers - Pango, Angola
- Angola - Accidents
- Angola - Training Accidents
- Motor Vehicle Accidents
- Uganda
- Botswana
- Mozambique
- Lesotho
- Zimbabwe
- Zambia
- Tanzania
- Senegal
- Missing - As reported by the Motsuenyane Commission
- Deaths from natural causes
- Suicides
- Executed by order of our military tribunal
- Died at the hands of the enemy
- Short ANC History 1912-1982
- Skweyiya Commission Report
- A. Introduction
- B. The Terms of Reference
- C. The perception of the Commission
- D. The Applicable Principles
- E. The Evidence
- F. Conditions of Detention
- G. Physical conditions of Detention
- H. Maltreatment
- J. Other Prisons and Places of Detention
- K. Forced Confessions
- L. The Treatment of the Mutineers
- M. The Loss of Property
- N. Context, Justification and Explanation
- O. Recommendations
- South African Liberation - The Communist Factor - Thomas Karis
- The ANC After Nkomati - By Tom Lodge
- Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF)
- Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
- Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO)
- Black People's Convention (BPC)
- Politics 1970-1979
- Pro Frelimo Rallies Banned
- Tribute to Steve Biko
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa)
- Democratic Party (DP)
- Freedom Alliance (FA)
- Human Rights Commission (HRC)
- Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)
- Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
- Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
- Independent Media Commission (IMC)
- Indian Congresses
- MK
- Absence of Some Former MK Cadres from Walmanstal
- ANC 48th National Conference
- ANC at war (I)
- ANC distances itself from MK protesters
- "Umkhonto We Sizwe - Born of the People"
- ANC planned military bombings
- Documented proof of ANC's sabotage plans
- ANC-MK Statement on the 32nd Anniversary Celebrations of MK
- ANC's just war - Human Rights Watch letter
- Armed Struggle and Umkhonto - Forward into the 1970s and '80s
- Wishing Us Away: Challenges facing ex-combatantsin the 'new' South Africa by
- The Wankie Campaign
- ANC killed mostly civilians
- Discussion Article - The Revolutionary Army
- Executions (specifically Angola Camp Mutiny)
- Freedom Fighters Betrayed By Own Liberation Movements!!!
- History of Umkhonto we Sizwe
- Inside Quadro
- Interview with Mayibuye
- The Armed Struggle Spreads
- The Sabotage Campaign
- Joint MK, APLA, TDF and VENDA Defence Force
- Keynote Address Of The President Of The African National Congress - Cde. Nelson Mandela
- List Of MK Operations
- Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe
- TRC Report Released
- Message From The Prime Minister Of India, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi
- MK/APLA Meeting
- Operations Report: The Department of Intelligence and Security of the African National Congress
- MK Statement On The Right-Wing Attack On The World Trade Centre
- Umkhonto we Sizwe -Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994)
- London Review of Books
- Move to armed struggle, operational strategy and MK's role in ANC
- New Left Review - Interview With Trevor Ngwane
- On MK Command Structure
- On Setting Up MK
- Operation Mayibuye
- Quatro Camps
- Quest for cadres' re-burial in SA
- Situation Affecting Integration Of Umkhonto We Sizwe Into New Sandf
- Small Arms in Southern Africa by Enough Sishi
- South Africa - Total strategy
- Statement On Death Sentences Passed On Three Members Of ANC And Umkhonto We Sizwe
- Statement on the 26th Anniversary of Umkhonto
- Stuart Commission Report
- Capture The Citadel
- Mobilise Our Black Power
- 20th Anniversary Speech of Umkhonto we Sizwe
- Statement On Signing Declaration
- The ANC Signs the Geneva Protocols
- Holding the ANC Accountable
- Umkhonto weSizwe
- Umkhonto we Sizwe - Brief Summary
- Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Code
- Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operations report
- Extract - BBC Interview with Joe Slovo 1986
- National Party (NP)
- National Peace Accord and Secretariat
- Ossewa Brandwag (OB)
- Pan-African Congress (PAC)
- South African Council of Churches (SACC)
- South African Communist Party (SACP)
- African Communist Journal Extracts
- No 1 - October 1959
- No 10 - July/August 1962
- No 129 - Second Quarter 1992
- No 130 - Third Quarter 1992
- Mass action works!
- The Leipzig Option
- Just how possible is peace?
- The Bisho march and massacre: An assessment
- Pretoria's men in Ciskei
- SABC and the massacre
- Bisho and the anti-Communist campaign
- Negotiations: What room for compromise?
- The boat, the tap and the Leipzig way
- 'Civil society' and democracy: A rejoinder
- No 131 - Fourth Quarter 1992
- No 132 - First Quarter 1993
- No 133 - Second Quarter 1993
- Finding our feet, without losing our heads
- Strategic objectives of the National Liberation Struggle
- Is a retreat from National Democratic Revolution to National Bourgeois Revolution imminent?
- Moving beyond the Social Contract by Langa Zita*
- Renewal -the NUMSA route?
- The role of trade unions in the transition
- Developing a strategic perspective for the Coloured Areas in the Western Cape by Max Ozinsky and Ebrahim Rasool
- SACP National Strategy Conference
- The role of the SACP in the transition to democracy and socialism
- Empowering our people and countering the medium-term threat of counter revolution and destabilisation
- No 134 - Third Quarter 1993
- No 135 - Fourth Quarter 1993
- No 137 - Second Quarter 1994
- No 138 - Third Quarter 1994
- No 139/140 - First Quarter 1995
- Joe Slovo the Revolutionary
- He was shaped by history, people, and his family
- But Joe proved me wrong
- The character of our Party
- Challenges of the transition: a COSATU perspective
- Challenging the neo-liberal agenda in South Africa.
- The Socialist Conference extracts from an SACP Central Committee assessment
- The big myth - sunset clauses and the public service
- No 142 - Third Quarter 1995
- The RDP needs class struggle
- The IFP, under strain
- The need for an effective ANC-led political centre
- Corruption blocks development
- Handling corruption in Cuba
- Organising Nurses
- SA in solidarity with Cuba
- Imperialism's complicity in the East Timor atrocity
- The critical tasks - a popular programme and rebuilding our party political structures
- Harry Gwala - Man of Steel
- Jack Simons - teacher, student of life, communist
- Reclaiming the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
- Making sense of the transition
- No 144 - Second Quarter 1996
- Economic policy - the debate sharpens
- The real gravy train
- Approaches to a strategy for job creation
- The labour market and job creation
- Job creation - the role of the public sector
- RDP Council Rebuilding the Mass Democratic Movement for a people-driven RDP
- An international perspective on the "people-driven" character of the RDP
- Land and agrarian questions in SA - A socialist perspective
- No 149 - Second Quarter 1998
- General
- African Communist Journal Extracts
- Tripartite Alliance
- Transitional Executive Council (TEC)
- Trade Union Federations
- COSATU
- NACTU
- SACTU
- Sactu Appears Upon The Scene
- United Democratic Front (UDF)
- Janet Cherry
- List Of Organisations Which Support And Are Affiliates Of The Regional UDF
- Messages Of Support
- Mkhuseli Jack
- UDF Press Release On The Unbanning Of Political Organisations
- Vaal Triangle article
- Archives Groups/South African History Archives: Individual Entries
- UDF Definition
- Statement By UDF National Executive Committee On National Launching Of UDF
- UDF Reference
- UDF unites apartheid divides
- Political Organisations in South Africa as at 1991
- African National Congress (ANC)
- Afrikaner-Broederbond (AB)
- Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
- Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO)
- Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)
- Black Sash
- Churches
- Congress of South African Students (COSAS)
- Congress Of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
- Conservative Party (CP)
- Democratic Party (DP)
- End Conscription Campaign (ECC)
- Five Freedoms Forum (FFF)
- Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP)
- Inkatha Yenkululeko Yesizwe (Inkatha Freedom Party) - IFP
- Labour Party (LP)
- Mass Democratic Movement (MDM)
- Natal Indian Congress (NIC)
- National Council Of Trade Unions (NACTU)
- National Education Coordinating J Committee (NECC)
- National Forum (NF) (1983)
- National Party (NP)
- National People's Party (NPP)
- National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
- New Unity Movement (NUM)
- Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)
- Solidarity (SOL)
- South African Bureau for Racial Affairs (SABRA)
- South African Communist Party (SACP)
- South African Confederation Of Labour (SACOL)
- South African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
- Trade unions
- Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
- United Democratic Front (UDF)
- United Workers' Union Of South Africa (UWUSA)
- African National Congress (ANC)
- SAIRR 1934-2000
- Violence
- Bisho massacre
- Bophututswana
- Cape
- Ciskei
- Countrywide
- Accumulation and distribution of weapons for the SDUs
- Alleged police complicity in political violence
- Chronology of Human Rights Violations
- Early 90's violence through to CODESA 1 & 2
- From Buthelezi IFP to Third Force theory
- FW admits apartheid bombing
- Killings associated with SDUs
- Political Accountability for the People's War
- Political Violence in South Africa
- Political Violence in the 90's period of transition
- SAP Response to TEC on Recommendations on Violence
- Self Defence Units (SDU's)
- Motion by the South African Government
- Report Number Four of the Technical Committee on Violence: 2 June 1993
- Report Number Five of the Technical Committee on Violence 26 July 1993
- Final Report on Attacks on Members of the South African Police
- The Anti-BLA Campaign
- The IFP, KZP and the battle for supremacy in KwaZulu and Natal
- The Law and Violence in South African History
- The National Peace Accord and its Structures
- The 'Third Force'
- Torture
- TRC Perspectives on violence
- Types of gross human rights violations by mass movements
- Sequels to the Rioting in Sekhukhuneland
- Unrest and Rioting among Africans
- Variants of violence in South Africa
- Violations associated with public order policing
- Violence in the wake of Chris Hani's assassination
- Deadly Marionettes: State-Sponsored Violence in Africa
- Dimensions of Turmoil
- Mandela: 'Nothing will stop us!'
- The Police And The Violence In South Africa
- Political Violence: 1991
- Kwazulu-Natal
- Caprivi Training Camps
- Reports and Violence
- 1990s: The IFP-ANC war for supremacy in KwaZulu, Natal and the PWV
- Indian South Africans - The Struggle to be South African
- The Durban Riots
- Human Rights Watch
- KwaZulu Violence
- KwaZulu/Natal: Violence and the killing of IFP leaders
- TEC Report on KZN Hit Squads (1)
- TEC Report on KZN Hit Squads (2)
- Justice Denied: Political Violence in KwaZulu-Natal after 1994
- The Natal Story: Sixteen Years of Conflict
- Introduction
- Chapter Eight: Destabilising the Opposition in 1994
- Chapter Nine: Progress is Made But Problems Persist in 1995 and 1996
- Chapter Ten: Increased Repression and Continued Attack in 1995 and 1996
- Chapter Eleven: Other Views on Violence in KwaZulu/Natal from 1992 to 1994
- Chapter Twelve: Further Allegations and Evidence About Violence in 1995 and 1996
- Chapter Thirteen: The Questions that Remain Unanswered
- 'Violence spiral' led to Boipatong massacre
- Transvaal
- Bombing of Cosatu House
- Bombing of Khotso House
- Report on the Shooting Incidents which took place in the Centre of Johannesburg on Monday, 28 March 1994
- Goldstone Commission press release - Jhb violence March 1994
- Goldstone Commission on AWB invasion of Multi-Party Negotiations at WTC
- TEC Resolution on East Rand Violence and Services
- Documents and Reports
- Mandela diary extract
- Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective
- Colonial background - Apartheid
- Commonality in Divided Societies
- Demographic Characteristics of South Africa in the late 1980s
- Exploring Reasons for the Collapse of Apartheid
- Extracts from Newcastle Advertiser 1949-53
- South Africa Focus Group Research 1992- 1997
- Historians, history and the South African TRC
- The Insurgent Origins of Democratization in South Africa
- Left Factionalism and the Democratic Revolution
- Media Misled Over Missing TRC Files
- Negotiated Settlements
- Negotiations and Change
- On Afrikaners
- Opposition splinters into eleven parties
- Poster - Jimmy Kruger
- Rivonia: Telling it as it was
- Still Standing: The Sharpeville Six
- The Eighties
- The end of the seventies
- The Homelands
- The Indian community in SA
- Toward Robben Island: The Rivonia Trial
- Why the South Africa United Front failed: Disruptive role of the Pan Africanist Congress
- Winning democracy in South Africa: 'A process not a lightning flash'
- Defiance Campaign In South Africa, Recalled
- Memoirs of the Island
- Long Walk Of Nelson Mandela - Interview With George Bizos
- Mwezi Twala - A soldier's story
- The Death of Chris Hani: An African Misadventure
- The Legal Struggles For A Democratic South Africa During The 1980's
- The Mating Game Plan
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850 1950
- The Criminal Justice System and the Protection of Human Rights: The Role of the Prosecution Service
- State of the Nation Address 1994 - Mandela
- Transparent, Accountable and Participatory Governance - NDI Report
- Links and References
- Publisher's Contact Details
- Mac Maharaj
This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.
UDF unites apartheid divides
When killing became a state programme in the 1980s, the UDF kept the struggle alive, writes Cornelius Thomas.
BY 1985, the flag of the then banned African National Congress had become commonplace in South Africa's African and coloured townships. But the ANC flag did not fly from official flagpoles; it draped coffins at mass funerals.
Although the country had reached the midpoint of its darkest decade at the time, the catch phrase "UDF Unites, Apartheid Divides" -- punctuated these political occasions.
Within two years in the 1980s, one organisation caused South Africa to change from a country at relative peace to one embroiled in virtual civil war.
That organisation was the United Democratic Front (UDF). Over 10000 activists launched the UDF in a hall in the Cape Town coloured township sprawl of Mitchells Plain, popularly named Mitchells Complain, in August 1983.
It was formed in opposition to the Piet Koornhof Laws which sought to implement a three-chamber parliament for whites, coloureds, and Indians, with Africans relegated to homelands and urban bantu councils. The coloureds of Cape Town especially rejected this offer; they would not collaborate in the instruments of their own oppression.
The UDF adopted as one of its patrons the liberation theology dominee, Dr Alan Boesak. His mission was to destroy apartheid.
In its first newsletter the UDF asserted: "The President's Council and the new parliament are a government plan to try to divide us. The government wants to fool us that coloureds and Indians will share in apartheid's power and privileges. But they only want to use masses of our coloured and Indian people."
Having initially considered the UDF as a paper tiger, the government soon became concerned because of its visibility (mass rallies, boycotts, and marches), its international outreaches, and its charismatic leaders like Boesak, Albertina Sisulu, Archie Gumede and Trevor Manuel. With its presence in schools and in townships, the UDF loomed as one of the largest facets of South African life�
For full text see: http://www.dispatch.co.za/2000/01/07/features/UDF.HTM