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Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
IMPORTANT NOTE: CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY – Due to time constraints, President Mbeki omitted portions of his speech during the delivery, but…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007
Director of Ceremonies, Distinguished delegates and guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank you most sincerely for giving me…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day celebrations, Bisho Stadium, Eastern Cape, 27 April 2007
Programme Director, Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, Premier of the Eastern Cape, Nosimo Balindlela, Ministers and Deputy…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
"Globalisation and related matters" Acting Director-General of the Institute of International Relations, Mr Nguyen Quang Chien Your…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency: National Assembly, 12th June 2007
Madam Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Hon Deputy President, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Honourable Members, Distinguished Guests, …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Minister in the Presidency responsible for youth affairs, Essop Pahad, Ministers and Deputy…
Address of the President of the South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Africa Region Conference (CPA), Cape Town 27 July 2007
Programme Director Chairperson of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Presiding Officers of the South African Parliament …
A Culture of Censorship: Secrecy and Intellectual Repression in South Africa by Christopher Edmond Merrett
Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa by Ivan Evans
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
Like so many of the landmarks along our long walk to freedom, September 7th 1992 does not mark a happy occasion. It was day on which the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Women’’s Day: Ga-Motlatla, Ditsobotla Local Municipality, North-West Province, 9 August 2008
Programme Director, Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, Minister of Provincial and Local Government, Sydney Mufamadi, Premier of…
Bisho Massacre in 1992
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Summit, Yokoyaha, Japan, 28th May, 2008.
Theme: Boosting Economic Growth in Africa. We thank the Prime Minister, the government and people of Japan for welcoming us, the African…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
Programme Director, Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr. Pallo Jordan, Premier of the Western Cape, Mr. Ebrahim Rasool, Deputy Mayor of…
Kaunda to be discharged from hospital, 25 September 2012
Lusaka - Zambia's independence hero and first president Kenneth Kaunda was to be discharged from hospital on Tuesday, four days after being…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. Arrested a healthy man on August 18…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
If a life could be mapped, that of the Honorable Arthur Chaskalson would surely appear as a straight line starting from a commitment to…
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
Former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson died on Saturday from leukaemia. There are few individuals who have played so significant and…
A picture of the man whom little is known about outside his political life - Kgalema Motlanthe
ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has urged the Youth League to be organised
A Weberian Analysis of Afrikaner Calvinism and the Spirit of Capitalism by Mohammed Rashid Begg
Clip on TRC hearing on the murder of Chris Hani, Part 2
Clip on TRC hearing on the murder of Chris Hani, Part 1
Clip on the assassination of Chris Hani
Clip on Chris Hani addressing SACP rally
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
Arthur Chaskalson was a formidable man. He could be severe. To those he opposed, he could be intimidating. But he also had a tender side…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
JAMES Baldwin once described the US as "the most desperately schizophrenic of republics". I wonder what he would have made of the presence…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's last public address was just weeks ago. It…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
Arthur Chaskalson was appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new Constitutional…
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Special Hearings - Prisons
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
Programme Director, Cde. Nelvis Qekema, Jwarra!!! Pastors who are present; Pastor Letshelega, Prof. Masango, Rev. Raboroko and Rev…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
Fellow South African citizens, I am here today to invite you to join me on a journey to build the country of our dreams. I ask those of you…
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Black Consciousness in South Africa: The Dialectics of Ideological Resistance to White Supremacy by Robert Fatton
Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war by André Wessels
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
Forty years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low wages. In total…
First Nelson Mandela interview
Africa Dancing with Nelson Mandela - Africannewslive.com
Amina Cachalia, political activism and championing women’s rights
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
SECRET & PERSONAL 10 DOWNING STREET THE PRIME MINISTER 31 October, 1985. Dear Mr President, Thank you for the message which you sent me on…
Forced Removals Sophiatown
Forced removals in Harfiled Cape Town
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
South African Communist Party 1934 For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
Why consider the history of a hundred-year old law? Surely the Marikana massacre and farm-workers' strikes are more urgent? In fact, there…
A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973 - Chapter 19
A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973 - Chapter 16
A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973
Excerpt "During 1973 the National party has been faced with increasing manifestations of black dissatisfaction and anger. The Black…
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia…
Cutting Through The Mountain
Cutting Through The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them Jewish - who fought…