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Feb 08, 2017

Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012

Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home an...

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Feb 08, 2017

The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008

Certain historians have erroneously asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery...

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Feb 08, 2017

Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Siyakha Project, Groutville, 17 June 1995

Your Majesty King Zwelithini; Ministers of Public Works, Comrade Jeff Radebe; Members of the Provincial Parliament; ...

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu
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Feb 08, 2017

Nyiko Floyd Shivambu

Member of Parliament for the Economic Freedom Fighters.

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Feb 08, 2017

This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965

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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Feb 08, 2017

1838 Die Groot Trek oor die Drakensberg

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Feb 08, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Diplomatic Correspondent of Morning Star, 23 November 1967, London

South Africa - The principal target Mr. Tambo explained that the Lusaka communique was issued when the Smith regime was...

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Feb 08, 2017

Retief manifesto, (Graham's Town Journal), 2 February 1837

Piet Retief's published manifesto, setting out the reasons for the Voortrekker's departure from the Cape colony....

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Feb 08, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of experts for the support of victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle, 09 April 1973, OSLO

Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle [Oliver Tambo, speaking on behalf of all liberation movements, t...

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Feb 08, 2017

Interview with Oliver Tambo in Luanda after summit meeting of Presidents of frontline states and Southern African Liberation Movements, 01 March 1977

Question: How did the Luanda summit go? TAMBO: This has been a very important meeting for a number of reasons. The cons...

The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
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Feb 07, 2017

The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale

Bookmarked by Dan Cameron in Art Forum as “what may turn out to be the most important exhibition of the 1990s&rdqu...

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Feb 07, 2017

Statement by Oliver Tambo with Other ANC leaders visiting Sweden, 02 February 1990

Today, Pretoria`s President, F.W. de Klerk, made important announcements which go a long way towards creating a climate ...

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Feb 07, 2017

President Julius Malema`s address to the KZN Provincial Congress, 22 May 2010

We send you greetings on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League, a militant, fighting organi...

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Feb 07, 2017

Resignation of Cde Zweli Mkhize a Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, 22 August 2013

The African National Congress is grateful to Comrade Dr Zweli Mkhize for the immeasurable role he has played as Premier ...

The Market Photo Workshop
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Feb 07, 2017

The Market Photo Workshop

The Market Photo workshop is a division of the Market Theatre Foundation. Founded by renowned documentary photographer ...

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