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Increase Assistance to Liberation Movements - Statement at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa by O. R. Tambo, Oslo, 11 April 1973
… Only ten days ago, this same statement came from the Secretary for Justice of the United States (2) , who … in Namibia while consultations are going on…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… so that they could be transferred elsewhere. The colonial secretary, Lord Harcourt, readily accepted Botha’s offer and … ( WWI and the People of South Africa…
Nobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… Peace Prize Laureate: Bishop of Johannesburg and former Secretary General South African Council of Churches …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… members became more acrimonious. Sastri Mda, who was the secretary of SOYA, was suspended for allegedly using Marxist …
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… which was a good thing. Chief Luthuli remained to be elected as an executive member of the ANC. TK• Had you joined … And there was M.B. Yengwa who became our…
PlaceEllis Park
… news story as the country’s first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, took to the pitch wearing …
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s statement at the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Bildt of Sweden 20 May 1992
… the rewarding lifestyle your people enjoy. Those of you elected to office are truly servants of the people, and we …
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… Nelson Mandela stated: "When our first democratically-elected government decided to make Heritage Day one of our …
EventDr. Nico Diederichs is inaugurated as South Africa’s third State President
… in succession of President Jim Fouche. Diederichs was elected unanimously by a joint session of the House of …
EventDivision in the Coloured Representative Council deepens
Dissatisfaction with the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC), instituted in September 1969, climaxed with a motion of no confidence in separate…
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
… one did not stand for reelection. Conference therefore elected eleven new members of the NEC. Among these are one … most senior officials of the ANC - the…
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… of its population, which enjoys no right to vote or to be elected to the law-making institutions? Permit me to tell the … the conclusions of the Advisory…
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
… own Judge Navi Pillay, who has been appointed by the UN Secretary-General, as agreed by the United Nations General … in the struggle for liberation…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president Omar al Bashir. Bashir had…
Document 30 - Letter from S. P. Bunting fo E. R. Roux, 9 January 1929
… have to be in suspense, but we have got a native assistant secretary Nzula whose trustworthiness will still have to be …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, …
The First Draft of the Constitution is published
… work by the Constitutional Assembly with Cyril Ramaphosa, secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC), as …
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… a formal alliance was entered into with the ANC and SACP. COSATU took this decision, not out of a romantic …
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… 1946." 2. On August 7, 1946, my Union wrote to the Secretary of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, conveying the … the Chamber, in the shape of a printed post…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… for the ending of the Simonstown Agreement. The AAM's Hon. Secretary, Abdul Minty, was able to be in Singapore to … were fortunate in their leaders. The…
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
The South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) was founded in Windhoek, South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo Ya Toivo…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of the cupboards at home were bare. A strike committee was elected and we promptly got down to business. Banners _were … sacrifice among large numbers of…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… in making it work. By working with your democratically-elected councillors you will make things even better in your … and development, but which commit…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the XIV Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Havana, Cuba 14 September 2006
… President Castro and the Republic of Cuba for having been elected to chair this movement of the countries of the South, … of billions of the people of the…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… 1946 Barthélemy Boganda became the first Central African elected to the French National Assembly. The government … 2004 and democratic elections in 2005, in…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
… tried unsuccessfully to send a delegation headed by our Secretary General, but because of a breakdown in … had been delayed for several weeks, coincided with…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… Jacob Zuma and the SPLM delegation was led by its Secretary-General, Comrade Pagan Amum. 2005: Comrade Collins … Sudan. In this respect, we plan to respond…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
… tried unsuccessfully to send a delegation headed by our Secretary General, but because of a breakdown in … had been delayed for several weeks, coincided with…
Address of The President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 21st Plenary Assembly of SADC Parliamentary Forum - Usambara Lodge, Mogale City, 14 November 2006
… of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Amusaa Mwanamwambwa, Secretary General of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Kasuka … warmest greetings to the Honourable…
Resignation of Cde Zweli Mkhize a Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, 22 August 2013
… as Treasurer-General of the African National Congress, elected in December 2012 at Mangaung, he should be full-time …