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ArchiveThis is the time: time to end apartheid, time for peace
Extract from the report of the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC), Frank Chikane, to the 1989 National Conference on the state…
Letter from the Secretary of SASO to the President of NUSAS
The letter contains a notification of a resolution passed at the SASO Conference held in Durban on 4 to 10 July 1970 which effectively withdraws SASO's…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
ArchiveThe Black Sash Durban Advice Office: Report to National Conference 1976
The Black Sash Durban Advice Office Report to National Conference on 16 March 1976 discussing Case Statistics, wages, Trade Unions, worker's rights, housing,…
ArchiveANC Call to the Nation: the future is within our grasp!
Pamphlet issued by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress. Call to the nation saying that change in South Africa is moving at a…
ArchiveLetter from Tony and Laura Goodyer to Hutton and Cook Attorneys
Letter from Tony and Laura Goodyer to Hutton and Cook Attorneys regarding the farm dwellers evicted from Syd Knott's Wolseley Estate and were temporarily…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
Examination of the black reaction to apartheid during the period 1948-1973 is topical and should help us to understand what is now happening in South Africa…
ArchiveJohannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to Black Sash National Conference 1978
Johannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to National Conference on 14 March 1978 discussing interview statistics, political control, pass laws, Urban Areas…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
We meet in the wake of great international gatherings concerned with the building of a future of peace, progress and friendship among the peoples comprising…
ArchiveAddress to the staff and students of the Lenin Party School
Speech made by Jack Simons to the staff and students of the Lenin Party School at the closing ceremony of the 1981-1982 academic year and in celebration of the…
EventZimbabwean intelligence officers on trial for attempting to bomb ANC refugees
Three Zimbabwean intelligence officers were on trial in Harare, Zimbabwe for attempting to car bomb a house in Bulawayo, occupied by African National Congress …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honourable…
EventThe Labour Party (LP) adopts a resolution to represent the Coloured community
At its annual conference held in Eshowe, Natal, the Labour Party (LP) adopted a resolution stating that it seeks to represent the Coloured community in a…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
Theories and Practice Scientific Racism These ideas about race were pided into two main theories, scientific racism and social Darwinism. Scientific…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
This pamphlet analysis and illustrates the results of the elections held in 1981, in which the government offered the SAIC to the Indian people. The liberatory…
BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
Comrade President, Comrades, members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades leaders of the South African Communist Party, COSATU and the…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
Arthur Goldreich will go down in history as one of the rare breeds of revolutionaries that changed the course of South African history. Not only did he…
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
Closing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
My thanks to Professor Goerling for inviting me to present this paper to the conference on Torture and the Future. Torture has recently been often in the news…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, December 29th to Wednesday night, January 2nd, was…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane,…