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2016 in Review
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Dec 12, 2016

2016 in Review

In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it h...

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December 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
Article
Dec 12, 2016

December 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism

The date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day in 1838, the Voortrekkers foug...

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Cecil Sols
Biography
Dec 09, 2016

Cecil Sols

Photographer and member of Afrapix

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Dec 09, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York

Defeat those who subvert United Nations Decisions Four days ago, in commemorating the twentieth anniversary of its sing...

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Dec 09, 2016

Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference "Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa", 04 December 1987, Arusha

The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city which has been our home for a few days, and return to our re...

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Dec 08, 2016

"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960

The eminent British statesman, Mr. Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of Britain turned to Africa, including the Union, "t...

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Dec 08, 2016

Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962

The new assault on civil liberties and democracy generally made by the General Law Amendment Bill "the Sabotage Bil...

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Dec 08, 2016

"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962

[Chief Lutuli said that it was no coincidence that he has chosen New Age to make this statement. "New Age has alrea...

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Dec 08, 2016

Message by Albert Luthuli to Asian-African Conference, 7 April 1955, Bandung

I welcome most heartily the convening of the Afro-Asian Conference and congratulate all those responsible for organising...

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Dec 08, 2016

Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Peace Convention, 4 October 1956, Johannesburg

[Extract] Peace is indissolubly interwoven with the question of freedom, for peace without freedom is a mockery… Freedo...

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Dec 08, 2016

Freedom Day Call by Albert Luthuli, 3 June 1956

In his national Freedom Day Call, ANC President-General Albert Lutuli calls on all lovers of freedom in our land to comm...

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Dec 08, 2016

Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983

The African National Congress, the broad democratic movement and the people of South Africa as a whole, will be observin...

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Dec 08, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981

On Wednesday, August 19, 1981, a racist judge in Pretoria sentenced to death three ANC militants - Anthony Tsotsobe, Dav...

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Dec 08, 2016

Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Conference of the African National Congress Women`s League, 1 August 1959

Here I am, caged in, in the Lower Tugela District, by the oppressor`s ban on me. The confinement resulting from this ban...

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Dec 08, 2016

Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969

"A call to action From: Sechaba, September 1969 (Abridged text) For over fifty years the African National Congre...

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