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Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
I am Albertina Sisulu. Metetiwe. Born in the Transkei, in the district of Tsomo on twenty-first October 1918. Educated in a lower primary school in my district…
Chapter 8 - Survivors
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the accounts that follow no one was killed…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The…
PlaceNgoye University of Zululand, Richards Bay
"Community Engagement at the University of Zululand is rooted within the African philosophy of Ubuntu which is guided by the principles of reciprocity,…
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the nation’s most traditional, hewing to rituals and practices passed…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
The 6th September 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the floor of the House of Assembly in…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
Members of the Luthuli Family, Honourable Premier, Dr Zweli Mkhize; Hon Minister of Arts and Culture Mr Paul Mashatile; His Majesty King Zwelithini…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
Micere Githae Mugo is an internationally known world speaker recognized for her literary works, essays and writings which she has used as a platform to…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
On behalf of the South African Youth Congress, whose leadership is working under most precarious conditions inside South Africa, I should like most sincerely…
PlaceGhana
Before March 1957 Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th century found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
"[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to political work... [V]isibly through the media,…
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
The first black South African footballer to play in Europe, was told whenever he scored it would be in the cause of independence. Jonathan Wilson tells of a…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
1946 22 June, The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
When the terrible news was announced to the world on 1 March 1986 that Olof Palme had fallen to an assassin`s bullet, the peoples of southern Africa reacted…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
CHAIRMAN: I welcome Mr. Oliver Tambo and his friends, Mr. Thabo Mbeki and Mr. Aziz Pahad, and I am glad that they have been able to come... Perhaps I could…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be described as the…
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
Uitenhage, officially renamed Kariega, is an industrial town in South Africa's, Eastern Cape Province. Which is situated within the Nelson Mandela Bay…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
The ANC appreciates the fact that the people of the Eastern Cape decided to honour this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It is…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a stern, resilient, and unapologetic reformist-feminist. With her feminist approach, she is poised to break down gender-based…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency, there were more than 100 sabotage attacks across the country. The government…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic Towns People Between 1886 and 1914 people…
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
Master of Ceremonies, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to talk about the South African economy to this important…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the launch of the UNDP 2006 Human Development Report, Kirstenbosch, National Botanical Gardens: Cape Town, 09 November 2006
Programme Director, The Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, Mr. Kemal DerviÅŸ, Director of the Human Development Report, Mr Kevin…
Restrictions on the media
A reflection on journalism There is nothing, amid South Africa's vast censorship apparatus, preventing the country's media from publishing the information…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
Viva COSATU, Viva! Viva SACP, Viva! Viva ANC, Viva! Viva the Alliance, Viva! Comrades, it falls to me to say a few words to bring this Special Congress to a…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the early morning of 5…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
The ‘Cape Malay’ community is rich in culture and religious traditions that have played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Cape Town. …