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Dec 08, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982

Mobilise the world for sanctions against Apartheid We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt...

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Dec 08, 2016

Message to the Special Committee against Apartheid on its 20th anniversary from O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 April 1983

We take the opportunity to extend to the Committee the most cordial fraternal greetings on occasion of the twentieth ann...

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Dec 08, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha

Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama Cha M...

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Dec 07, 2016

Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986

Umkhonto We Sizwe - "Born of the people" This day 25 years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked Sou...

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Dec 07, 2016

Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia

Comrade Chairman, Comrades, Delegates, This day, the opening of the National Consultative Conference of the ANC, is a ...

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Dec 07, 2016

Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London

The "International Tribute - For a Free South Africa" is an historic and unique event. Artists from across the...

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Dec 07, 2016

Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London

It is now almost five years since Canon John Collins passed away. With his departure, many of us lost a dear friend. As...

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Dec 07, 2016

Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London

Botha`s British Allies When the Pretoria regime imposed new restrictions on the press a week ago, it was in the hope th...

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Dec 05, 2016

A History of the Tramway Union in Cape Town 1918 - 1945 by Christopher Giffard

Explore this africa item to learn more about South African history.

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Dec 01, 2016

The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan

In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultur...

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Dec 01, 2016

Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa

Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle i...

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Dec 01, 2016

Slavery in South Africa

It is hardly known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch E...

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Dec 01, 2016

Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995

INTRODUCTION There has been hardly any research in India on the transport of Indians to South Africa as slaves during t...

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Dec 01, 2016

Notes from Books

Jean Gelman Taylor,  THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The Univ...

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Dec 01, 2016

Names of Slaves and Free Blacks

The following list is taken from Frank R. Bradlow and Margaret Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, appendix II. A note by t...

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