Today in Kimberley's History
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65 days since beginning of the Siege of Kimberley, 1899
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
No Diary entry today...
Extract from "The Diary of a Doctor's Wife – During the Siege of Kimberley October 1899 to February 1900" by Winifred Heberden.
No Diary entry today...
ANC adopts motion to hold a Congress of the People to draw up the Freedom Charter - 1953
The 41 annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, continues. Amongst the ANC leaders who attended the event was Walter Sisulu. At the conference the ANC resolved to continue with the boycott campaign. A series of boycott campaigns were staged throughout the country, including the 1952 Defiance Campaign. This was the biggest non-violent resistance movement ever seen in South Africa and the first campaign undertaken jointly by all racial groups under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC).
The 41 national annual conference of the ANC supported the call for from the annual conference of the ANC (Cape) held in Craddock on 15th and 16th August 1953, where Kimberley-born Prof ZK Matthews proposed that a radically inclusive national convention be held to draw up a democratic Freedom Charter. The Congress of the People took place in Kliptown on the 25th and 26th June 1955, attended by more than 3,000 delegates from across South Africa. The Congress ended with the historic adoption of the Freedom Charter.
The 41 annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, continues. Amongst the ANC leaders who attended the event was Walter Sisulu. At the conference the ANC resolved to continue with the boycott campaign. A series of boycott campaigns were staged throughout the country, including the 1952 Defiance Campaign. This was the biggest non-violent resistance movement ever seen in South Africa and the first campaign undertaken jointly by all racial groups under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC).
The 41 national annual conference of the ANC supported the call for from the annual conference of the ANC (Cape) held in Craddock on 15th and 16th August 1953, where Kimberley-born Prof ZK Matthews proposed that a radically inclusive national convention be held to draw up a democratic Freedom Charter. The Congress of the People took place in Kliptown on the 25th and 26th June 1955, attended by more than 3,000 delegates from across South Africa. The Congress ended with the historic adoption of the Freedom Charter.
