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Jan 16, 2012

Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - transcript

THE FOLLOWING NOTICE is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and A...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha

Viva COSATU, Viva!  Viva SACP, Viva!  Viva ANC, Viva!  Viva the Alliance, Viva! Comrades, it falls to me to say a few wo...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress

COSATU is deeply disturbed by the manner in which the Department of Finance is approaching the 1998 budget. Both in disc...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 32 - The Negotiating Council: resolution on violence

Click to read Critism and Censorship in the South African "Alternative" Press with particular reference to the cartoons ...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd

Statement of principles 14. We believe that a conjuncture of circumstances exists which, if there is a demonstrable read...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 7 - The Freedom Charter

By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the denominations and throughout South Africa were becom...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition

At the beginning of february 1993 it became apparent that most role-players had realized the urgent need for the resumpt...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 23 - Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk

Today marked the beginning of a process of mobilisation against privatisation in support of labour's demands as presente...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela

COSATU SPECIAL EXCO PRESS STATEMENT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS. The COSATU Executive Committee met in a special sessi...

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Jan 16, 2012

Introduction

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 6 - Africans’ claims in South Africa

“on Women's Day we occupied the prison's surgery” During the time of the UDF (United Democratic Front) I was assisting t...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom

THE DEEPENING POLITICAL CRISIS in our country has been a matter grave concern to me for quite some time and I now consid...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk

COSATU PRESS CONFERENCE 25 OCT. 1995 COSATU Central Executive Committee held a strategy workshop on the 23 - 24 Oct. 199...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 14 - Resolution by the Conference for a Democratic Future on negotiations and the Constituent Assembly

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 16 - F. W. de Klerk’s speech at the opening of Parliament

Draft Discussion Document COSATU Congress `99 continued labour market transformation and programmes to see to the impl...

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