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This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
8 February 2017
MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby ...
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Biography of Caiphus Semenya
6 February 2017
Caiphus Semenya is a South African composer, musician, and arranger that became known for his musical work while living ...
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Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
6 February 2017
ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both within South Africa a...
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Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
6 February 2017
Abstract: For most of his life, Arthur Nortje’s poetry remained relatively unknown, especially since he died very ...
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Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
6 February 2017
Mandla Langa was born in apartheid South Africa in 1950. His family, friends, and his own life were made in and develope...
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The Broederbond by Norman Levy
27 January 2017
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 3) The Broederbond Just as it was the whi...
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Manifesto of the emigrant farmers By Piet Retief, 1837
27 January 2017
Soon after the close of his correspondence with Lt.-Governor Stockenstrom, Piet Retief left this document behind when he...
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The Wankie Campaign
24 January 2017
The Luthuli Detachment was one [of] those detachments that were well prepared and well trained. I`m saying this because ...
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The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
13 January 2017
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid...
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Preface
10 January 2017
This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several difficulties...
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WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM – NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
9 January 2017
Albert Luthuli's Presidential Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Orland...
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Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
5 January 2017
A spirit that refuses to submit to Tyranny Once again another biennial Conference is upon you. It is my good fortune t...
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Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
4 January 2017
[Protest meetings were held in South Africa in February 1955 denouncing the government`s use of force to remove African ...
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Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
14 December 2016
Umkhonto we Sizwe logo 16 December 1961 is seen as the date of formation because Umkhonto performed its first acts of ...
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Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Peace Convention, 4 October 1956, Johannesburg
8 December 2016
[Extract] Peace is indissolubly interwoven with the question of freedom, for peace without freedom is a mockery… Freedo...
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