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ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… government committed serious atrocities against the Black majority. A number of brutal measures were adopted by … Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress …
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton Town … Tricameral parliament, and did not pay…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… recognition of the pain, the hurt and the indignity that Black people, particularly Africans, in the whole of South … Blacks was also taken away through…
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… is starting to bear fruit. The masses of our people, both black and white, both resident at home and abroad, are, like … questions of social equity. This…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa Abstract: Black, Coloured and Indian women faced harsh oppressions in … 1930s, shops were closing and the once…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… other countries, the South African Communist Party has to face the difference between its policy and attitude to the … likely to remain in extra…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… What then, dear leaders, are the concrete challenges we face? Indeed, because we are meant to be leaders of the … challenges cannot be different from those…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 5th National Congress of COSATU 7 September 1994
… the end of this month.) Among the many urgent tasks that face this Council is the question of industrial restructuring … society. Comrade Chairperson, The…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… hard to suppose that a lovelier place then existed on the face of the earth, or that there was anything more … present a united front against all the…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… artisans on condition that they only be allowed to work in black residential or bantustan areas. His specialisation was … Bantu Administration Boards in…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… that they are easily supplied, and like most men, White or Black, they will not work when they have no want." (Bundy, C. … gave rise to increasing social…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the urbanisation of black…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… leagues had been divided according to race. Now Black-owned football clubs were officially not recognised as … South African Soccer Federation (SASF), which…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… Nationalists to counter the challenge posed by a growing Black political consciousness. This was done by systematically disenfranchising Black voters…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… economic depression after the war and dissatisfaction from Black South Africans and other extra-parliamentary groups … made the SAP's rule more difficult…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… we approach the local government election campaign we will face the critical task of mobilising communities to become … in mind our limited means;…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… in a nice little garden. On entering we found ourselves face to face with a gentleman about thirty years of age, with … for a comparison - he led off toward…
Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… by Robert Alexander Young, a slave preacher, in defence of Black man’s rights in the scale of universal freedom. Young addresses both Black and White people…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… as both federations were to some degree influenced by the Black Consciousness Movement, and - while agreeing on … - insisted that the leadership of the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… racist military occupation, from children and youth who face the army and police in the streets, from militant …
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… they had not prepared themselves for what it meant to face prison or other repression. Both Luthuli and Nelson …
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… its promise of a swift return to democracy can be taken at face value – is actually safeguarding Burundi’s …
2004 New Year’s Eve Broadcast, 30 December 2003
… as infectious diseases. To make matters worse, we still face the challenge of high levels of criminal violence, which …
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… of context. Not all the assertions can be accepted at face value. It must be analysed carefully and critically. - … from being still further overrun by this…
Oration by the ANC Gauteng Chairperson Paul Mashatile at the funeral service of the late Ephraim Motlalepula Nkoe, 11 May 2013, Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto
… to overcome the effects of the inferior education given to black people at that time, there was a need for … We are clear in our minds that, despite the…
Acceptance speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993
… of the same great issues of the day which we have had to face as South Africans. We speak here of the challenge of the … will triumph, because the common…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004
… we seek today in empowering women to take advantage of black economic empowerment and other business opportunities … in all decision making bodies in our…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… press that SASO is formed in opposition to NUSAS, or as a Black equivalent of NUSAS. According to the draft … the world he lives in a better place for…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… The KwaZulu homeland by this point controlled most black people in the province’s lives – schools, health care, … issued an ultimatum that the IFP should…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… significant for thee role played by women, particularly black women. Black men in the Cape Colony still had the vote (although a black man could not become a…