Albert John Luthuli was a South African anti-apartheid activist,traditional leader,and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967.
KwaDukuza,previously known as Stanger,is a town in KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa. In 2006,the municipal name was changed to KwaDukuza,but the Zulu people in the area called it "Dukuza" well before then.
Sasolburg is the third largest city within the Metsimaholo Local Municipality in the far north of the Free State province of South Africa and is further sub-divided into three areas:Sasolburg proper,Vaalpark and Zamdela.
Albert "Albie" Louis Sachs is a South African lawyer,activist,writer,and former judge appointed to the first Constitutional Court of South Africa by Nelson Mandela.
Nyameko Barney Pityana FKC GCOB is a human rights lawyer and theologian in South Africa. He is an exponent of Black theology.
Ronald Kasrils is a South African politician,former guerrilla and military commander. He served in a number of ministerial posts,including the as Minister for Intelligence Services from 2004 to 2008. He was a member of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1987 to 2007 as well as a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) from December 1986 to 2007.
The South African History Project (2001-2004) was established and initiated by Professor Kader Asmal,former Minister of Education in South Africa. This initiative followed after the publication of the Manifesto on Values,Education and Democracy and the Report of the History and Archaeology Panel in South Africa in 2001.This report was written by leading scholars who advised the then Minister of Education on the strengthening of the teaching of history in South African schools after the end of apartheid. The South African History Project addressed the challenges of revitalising the teaching and learning of history by setting up provincial networks which brought stakeholders in education,heritage,tourism and publishing together for the first time in post-apartheid South Africa.
Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya OLS was a South African politician who was Minister of Public Service and Administration from 1994 to 1999 and Minister of Social Development from 1999 to 2009. Skweyiya was re-elected to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress in 2007.
Internal resistance to apartheid in South Africa originated from several independent sectors of South African society and took forms ranging from social movements and passive resistance to guerrilla warfare. Mass action against the ruling National Party (NP) government,coupled with South Africa's growing international isolation and economic sanctions,were instrumental in leading to negotiations to end apartheid,which began formally in 1990 and ended with South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994.
There is a historical and current bilateral relationship between Ireland and South Africa. Both countries have established embassies in the territory of the other,in Dublin and Pretoria.
Stanger Secondary School is a public high school located in Stanger / KwaDukuza on the north coast of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa.
The Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa,or EISA,is an organization founded in 1996 in Johannesburg to "promote credible elections,participatory democracy,human rights culture and the strengthening of governance institutions for the consolidation of democracy in Africa."
Pius Nkonzo LangaSCOB was Chief Justice of South Africa from June 2005 to October 2009. Formerly a human rights lawyer,he was appointed as a puisne judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa upon its inception in 1995. He was the Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa from November 2001 until May 2005,when President Thabo Mbeki elevated him to the Chief Justiceship. He was South Africa's first black African Chief Justice.
Mandla Langa is a South African poet,short-story writer,novelist,and cultural activist. He grew up in the KwaMashu township of Kwazulu Natal. His novel The Lost Colours of the Chameleon won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize . Langa enrolled for a degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Fort Hare,but was expelled in 1973 as a result of his involvement in the activities of the South African Student Organisation. In 1976,he went into exile and has lived in different countries of Southern Africa as well as in Hungary and the United Kingdom.
Fr Austin (Liam) Flannery OP,was a Dominican priest,editor,publisher and social justice campaigner.
The Dakar Conference was a historic conference between members of the Institute for Democratic Alternatives in South Africa (IDASA) and the African National Congress (ANC). It was held in Dakar,Senegal between 9 and 12 July 1987. The conference discussed topics such as strategies for bringing fundamental change in South Africa,national unity,structures of the government and the future of the economy in a free South Africa. The IDASA delegation from South Africa,participated in the conference in their private capacity and would later be condemned by the South African government for meeting a banned organization. The future indirect result of the conference was South African government talks with Nelson Mandela and his eventual meeting with P. W. Botha in 1989.
The Irish Federation of University Teachers is a trade union representing university staff in Ireland.
Fawzia Peer is a South African politician and businesswoman. A member of the African National Congress,she was the Deputy Mayor of eThekwini Local Municipality between August 2016 and September 2019. During that time,from June 2019 onwards,she was the Acting Mayor while Mayor Zandile Gumede faced criminal charges.
South Africa–Sweden relations refers to the bilateral relations between Sweden and South Africa. Formal relations between the two countries began with the opening of a South African legation in the 1930s with relations being upgraded to ambassadorial level in 1994 following South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections. In 2000 a South African - Swedish Binational Commission was established by President Thabo Mbeki and Prime Minister Göran Persson.
Azwindini Jeremiah "Jerry" Ndou is a South African politician and diplomat who has served as a Delegate to the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) since October 2022. Before that,he represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Limpopo Provincial Legislature and Limpopo Executive Council.
