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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…
PlaceHelderberg, Somerset West
The district takes its name from the mountain of the same name, which is Afrikaans for: "clear mountain". This is referring to the way in which the western…
PlaceDundonald, East Mpumalanga
MPUMALANGA - Dundonald is located in the Gert Sibande district municipality east Mpumalanga. It was part of the former homeland KaNgwane established under…
Qunu, Wild Coast of Eastern Cape- Where Mandela Spent His Childhood
Just South of Mthatha (Umtata) in the Eastern Cape on the rolling green Hills, of a cluster of Villages; their is one known as Qunu. It has recently been added…
Cape Town International Convention Centre
With over 17 years of service excellence and crafting extraordinary experiences, the CTICC has built an enviable reputation as a premier Business Tourism venue…
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;…
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…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… in Afrikaans appears in Soweto schools. 4 March, The Black People's Convention, the South African Students … that go before it." Winnie Mandela is elected to…
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…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South … South African government, opposed the…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches , first Black Archbishop of the…
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…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… Africa, our people are massacred simply because they are black. White indifference is appalling: the death and … few kilometres away, across the great chasm…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… singing to himself’ ( Disgrace 212) whilst Petrus, the black ‘gardener and dog-man’ ( Disgrace 64) gains more and … would have played a pivotal role in David…
Address at the Opening Session of the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha,1 December 1987
… historic city of the African revolution. The reality we face is that the apartheid system continues to live on. The … challenge the fact that the…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… march. We also acknowledge the former President of the Black Sash, Ms Mary Burton. We acknowledge the organisation’s … which took place during the First…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the opening session of the ANC Conference, Arusha, 1 December 1987
… historic city of the African revolution. The reality we face is that the apartheid system continues to live on. The … challenge the fact that the…
Render South Africa Ungovernable! - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 73rd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1985
… determined destination. A Future to Fight For, an Enemy to Face To address you, compatriots, on January 8th, 1985, is a … and Coloured, or so-called …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 73th Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 1985
… determined destination. A Future to Fight For, an Enemy to Face To address you, compatriots, on January 8th, 1985, is a … and Coloured, or so-called Coloured…
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… the difficulties of the moment, whatever crises we face, we will rise to meet them together and, together, we … for sector development and support for…
ArticleSharpeville
… 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and … carrying passes. The PAC saw this as…
ArticlePass Laws in South Africa
… The Pass Laws was a system used to control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass …
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
… from 1975, CCAWUSA specifically organised to bring all (black) commercial workers together, explicitly cross-cutting … shortage created pressure on…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… African families from Ladysmith townships and surrounding ‘black spots’ were moved into Ezakheni in successive batches, … 1972 to make a way for a dam. · …
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… the buffer zone between two opposing forces of White and Black during the height of apartheid, both in South Africa … in an iron shack, symbolizing the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… Nelson Mandela served as the first democratically elected black president of South Africa. He served as president of … that he oversaw the 1981 killing by…