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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

  • ZA-COM-09530
  • Person
  • 15 September 1977 -
A Nigerian writer, novelist and feminist whose work drew extensively on the Biafran war in Nigeria during the late 1960s. She is famously known for her published books and short stories among the others , The Thing Around your Neck and her TED talks on The danger of a single story.

AECI

  • Corporate body
AECI is a leading partner in making mining safer and more efficient for a better world.

Afravision

  • ZA-COM-03679
  • Corporate body

Africa Confidential

  • ZA-COM-07696
  • Corporate body
Journal, fortnightly newsletter covering politics and economics in Africa. It was established in 1960 and is owned by the British Asempa Limited.

Africa Freedom Station

  • ZA-COM-03077
  • Corporate body

Proceedings of a lecture by Don Mattera on "The deliberate retention of the White Supremacy.” held at the African Freedom Station. The African Freedom Station is now known as the Afrikan Freedom Station. Connecting with the next generation through art. It was established by Steve Kwena Mokewna and his wife Nivarna Singh.

African Activist Archive Project

  • ZA-COM-05631
  • Corporate body
The African Activist Archive is preserving and making available online the records of activism in the United States to support the struggles of African peoples against colonialism, apartheid, and social injustice from the 1950s through the 1990s. The website includes:
growing online archive of historical materials - pamphlets, newsletters, leaflets, buttons, posters, T-shirts, photographs, and audio and video recordings
personal remembrances and interviews with activists
an international directory of collections deposited in libraries and archives
The African Activist Archive Project is collaborating with activists across the U.S. who supported African liberation struggles to create this online archive of more than 10,000 items. The project also assists individuals and groups to deposit their collections in public repositories, including the African Activist Archive collections in the Michigan State University Libraries.

African Bank

  • ZA-COM-11199
  • Corporate body
African Bank is a retail bank in South Africa that provides monetary services and goods. South African Reserve Bank has granted the Bank a license to operate as a "locally controlled bank."

African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP)

  • ZA-COM-04393
  • Corporate body
  • 1993-
Established in December 1993 to cater for the needs of Christians from all over South Africa. It is a party that would not only represent bible believing Christians, but also those who have a high regard for moral values. The ACDP vision is based on Christian and family values, and aims to rebuild the foundation of the nation by protecting families from the destructive effects of gambling, prostitution, pornography and abortion.

African Leadership Initiative

  • ZA-COM-10764
  • Corporate body
African Leadership Initiative is a Pan-African initiative and born out of a belief that Africa’s future lies in investment in the development of effective, values-based and enlightened African leaders. The purpose of ALI is to develop the next generation of values-based African leaders who are capable of guiding and leading their countries as they struggle to align the demands of globalisation with local visions of “a good society”. The historical and current problems faced by the African continent are well known. ALI aims, in a significant way to reverse this negative trend.

African National Congress (ANC)

  • ZA-COM-04132
  • Corporate body
  • 8 January 1912 -
Established as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) in 1912. Renamed African National Congress (ANC) in 1923. Following the Sharpeville Massacre in March 1960, the ANC was banned by the South African government and went underground until the ban was lifted in 1990. Its military wing, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK), was established in 1961, with Mandela as commander-in-chief. The ANC became South Africa’s governing party after the nation’s first democratic elections on 27 April 1994.

African National Congress National Working Committee (ANC NWC)

  • ZA-COM-04163
  • Corporate body
The ANC’s top structures between its National Conferences consist of the National Executive Committee which meets quarterly; the Officials (President; Deputy President, National Chairperson, Treasurer, Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary General) and the National Working Committee (NWC), made up of the Officials and up to a quarter of elected NEC members, plus representatives of the Women’s, Youth and Veterans leagues – the NWC implements NEC decisions and reports to the NEC.

African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)

  • ZA-COM-04207
  • Corporate body
Founded in 1944 by Nelson Mandela, Anton Lembede, Walter Sisulu, A. P. Mda and Oliver Tambo as a reaction to the ANC’s more conservative outlook. Its activities included civil disobedience and strikes in protest against the apartheid system. Many members left and formed the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) in 1959. Banned between 1960 and 1990.

African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)

  • ZA-COM-10719
  • Corporate body
African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) is a Trotskyist political group in South Africa. It emerged from the Non-European Unity Movement, and was closely associated with I.B. Tabata, a leading Marxist who died in exile in 1990. Its aim was to end white minority domination of South Africa and ultimately achieve a socialist revolution supported by an alliance of the urban proletariat and peasantry.[

African Students' Association (ASA)

  • ZA-COM-07694
  • Corporate body
Founded on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black student life in the country.

African Union Society

  • ZA-COM-10707
  • Corporate body
African Union Society was created in Newport, Rhode Island. While most blacks from Rhode Island were free by 1807, strong prejudice and oppression were present before and after that date. The AUS developed partly in response to these difficulties, as well as a forum for black cultural discussion. The society is considered one of the first formal organizations founded by free blacks in the United States, and the first mutual aid society for African Americans, although similar societies would form over the next thirty years throughout the Northeast.

Africare

  • ZA-COM-04590
  • Corporate body

AfriForum

  • ZA-COM-09571
  • Corporate body
A South African non-governmental, civil rights organisation that focuses on mobilizing Afrikaners, Afrikaans speaking people and other minority groups in South Africa and aims to protect their rights.
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