The SACP’s secret Moscow papers
James Myburgh | 31 January 2017 James Myburgh on the striking new information that has emerged about the Party’s influence on the ANC in the early 1960s The nature of the relationship between the South…
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The Southern African Policy of the Soviet Union — with Specific Reference to South Africa. Some Notes.
South African Communist Party 1990 Written: by Z. Pallo Jordan. Lusaka, Zambia. February 1990; Transcribed: by Ayanda Madyibi; Corrected: by the author, 2006. 1. For purposes of scientific analysis the term “superpowers” is not very…
South African Communist Party Documents. 1928
The South African Question Source: Resolution on ‘The South African Question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the Sixth Comintern congress. Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie. South Africa is a British Dominion…
Manifesto of the Communist Party of South Africa
Adopted at the inaugural conference of the Party, Cape Town, 30 July, 1921 Source: http://www.sacp.org.za/docs/history/. The Communist Party of South Africa, which has been formed by the union of the former International Socialist League (S….
Rand Rebellion 1922
Topics Account of events: Rand Rebellion 1922 Union leaders appearing in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court, supported by mineworkers in the streets outside © Museum Africa The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that…
The 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
Police disperse a strike meeting, Market Square, Johannesburg, 1913 Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the various…
Move to the Armed Struggle, 1960-1999
Chris Hani. SACP leader In 1960 the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress were also banned, and went into exile. In November of 1961 some SACP and ANC members managed to meet in secret…
Founding and development of the CPSA, 1921-1949
The founding conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921. The party was founded mainly by radical White workers and socialists who…
A banned organisation, 1950-1959
Treason Trail Accused. December, 1956 In 1950 the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisation bill and later changed its name and focus to the Suppression of Communism bill. The bill was introduced for many reasons…
South African Communist Party timeline 1870-1996
Explore some of the key moments and events that have helped shape the course of South African Communist Party. Follow the links for more detail. 1870 William H. Andrews, a pioneer of the trade union…