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Mandela: Message to India
South African History Online Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [On the occasion of an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY,…
Flyer of the African Resistance Movement announcing its formation, June 12,1964
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an…
Further reading and Links pertaining to History of Slavery and early colonisation in SA
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus,…
A selection of documents related to the Defiance Campaign
The Dutch and the Khoisan
The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC) or Dutch East India Company came into being on 20 March 1602 and is seen as the first company…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
The campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter was the climax to a decade or so of multifaceted and creative…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
The Freedom Charter was not adopted immediately by the ANC. The executives of the four organisations of the Congress Alliance met at the…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics…
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
The Second Anglo-Boer War resulted in heavy loss of life for both the Boers and the British. The Boers had lost the war and peace…