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Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
Introduction: The Mandela family commemorated birthdays whenever possible, and wedding anniversaries almost without exception, in prison…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
Nelson's responses to the Brandfort sojourn are recorded in extracts from the letters that follow: I have thought of you since I heard of…
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
To: Mr. F. W. De Klerk State President of the Republic of South Africa 9th July, 1992 Dear Mr. De Klerk I acknowledge receipt of your…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
Introduction To someone cut off from friends and relatives, restricted to seeing only a selected few people and even these not as…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
Introduction The people sent a hero to prison, but generally ignored the fact that he had responsibilities and dependants. Nelson, in the…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
Letter Wrttten by Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, Leader of the White Opposition United Party, 23 May 1961. Sir De Villiers…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
Introduction The Robben Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which…
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
Letter addressed to the Minister of Justice from Robben Island Prison Dated 22 April 1969; Published by the ANC in 1978 Dear Sir, My…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Albert Lodge, Mount Street, Cape Town, 31 May 1910 The inauguration of the Union…
Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
I am Albertina Sisulu. Metetiwe. Born in the Transkei, in the district of Tsomo on twenty-first October 1918. Educated in a lower primary…
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Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
Sir, Sons and Daughters of Afrika! Mr. Speaker as already informed you that we had hoped that this inaugural Convention of the Africanists…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma 14 December 1941 Fellow Countrymen, If you may ever need comfort, courage and inspiration for…
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations, 22 January 1946
Message from Dr. AB Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations opposing South Africa`s proposal for incorporation of South West…