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Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule by democratic process. Armed to the teeth it has presented the people with only one choice…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
Mr President, I hope that Ministers Kobie Coetseeand Gerrit Viljoen have informed you that I deeply appreciate your decision in terms of which eight fellow…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
As the Polly Street Art Center drew to a close so Rorke's Drift was established. Polly Street was urban, Rorke's Drift rural. If Polly Street attempted a…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
Having analysed SANSCO's ideology and politics, I now examine particular aspects of its organisation. Specifically, I focus on its structure and membership,…
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
Hundreds of people braved the cold weather to attend the Eidgah. The Eidgah was hosted next to the Mohammadiyya Qadriyya Majid at the Nirvana Drive, open field…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
The settlement was founded in 1884 by Scottish railwayman James Douglas Logan, who recognised the area’s potential as a stop along the expanding railway line…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
[Oliver Tambo addressed more than 10,000 people who attended the funeral service of members of the ANC massacred by raiders from the South African Defence…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
The Pass was constructed between 1984 and 1988. Leading up to the Huguenot Tunnel from its South side, is an awe-inspiringly beautiful, high-altitude viaduct…
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…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!' This message was…
A Farewell To Madiba! National Assembly, Cape Town, March 26,1999.
Madame Speaker Chairperson of the Council of Provinces Honourable Members Mr President Isinamva liyabukwa Mhla wasabel'igwijo, Uthwel'uthuli lwezitho…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
Introduction Introduction Part 1 - Building The National Movement Document 1 - Harry Snitcher , Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943] …
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
SECRET & PERSONAL 10 DOWNING STREET THE PRIME MINISTER 31 October, 1985. Dear Mr President, Thank you for the message which you sent me on 28 October. Now that…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian Opinionreflected on the way in which the…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
Programme Director Leadership of the Organisation of Cde. Oliver Tambo and the Alliance Business Community Comrades Patriots Ladies and Gentlemen …
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
I wish to express my deep gratitude for the privilege accorded to me to address this important body. It was with considerable reluctance that I applied for…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
Mr Speaker This Parliament has convened to adopt important amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 1993. The fact that we have…
44. Gandhi explains ‘satyagraha’
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M K. Gandhi introduced a new weapon in the…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
The new constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
Political freedom from foreign rule, essential as it is, is not freedom.1One freedom is essential. That is the freedom for an individual to develop to his/ her…
Liberation
"We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know. We are the people who have borne the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After he became embroiled in general student dissatisfaction with boarding…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
European's settle in South Africa for the first time and begin to further colonize and trade with the Khoikhoi at the cape, by the middle this century the…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being entrenched. The formation of the Union of…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
The Ghwarrie Poort is located on the tarred N9 between the Karoo towns of Uniondale in the south and Willowmore in the north. The Poort is 14 kms long and…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
Public Announcement on the Disciplinary hearings of: FLOYD SHIVAMBU Respondent SINDISO MAGAQA Respondent JULIUS MALEMA Respondent 29 February 2012, Luthuli…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
Within a few decades Grahamstown was the most important city in the Cape Colony after Cape Town. In 2018 the city changed its name to Makhanda. Makhanda was a…