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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… began in Angola. In 1958, he was granted a scholarship from the United Church of Christ to attend university in … Angolan parties and Portugal. The…
Summary Minutes of a Meeting held in New York on 11 and 12 July 1988 between a South African delegation and an Angolan delegation, facilitated by a delegation from the United States
… Minutes of a meeting in New York of delegates from South Africa and Angola, facilitated by the United … and an Angolan delegation, facilitated by a…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… not material things. The birth of a political activist In 1976, Elvis enrolled at the University of Durban- Westville … activities. It was a period that saw…
ArchiveChurch Street bomb - 20th May 1982 ... a blast from the past, by Kobus, Citizen Alert ZA, 20 May 2008
… Church Street bomb - 20th May 1982 ... a blast from the past, by Kobus, Citizen Alert ZA, 20 May 2008 …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… Mandela posters. In September 1989, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife were arrested together with 30 other … stay a massive stay away in protest against…
The Congress Of The People Of 1955 In Kliptown Will Judge And Punish The ANC by Slowvers Moosa (From: EFF Supporter Website), 14 November 2013
… Kliptown Will Judge And Punish The ANC by Slowvers Moosa (From: EFF Supporter Website), 14 November 2013 …
Cable from Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United Nations opposing South Africa’s proposal for incorporation of South West Africa, January 1946
… Cable from Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of ANC, to the United …
More than R10m in foreign currency is stolen from the safes of the SAPS serious and violent crimes (SVC) unit in Benoni, on the
… More than R10m in foreign currency is stolen from the safes of the SAPS serious and violent crimes (SVC) …
Summary Minutes of the Bilateral Meeting held in Brazzaville on Friday 13 May 1988 between delegations from the Governments of the Republic of South Africa and the Peoples Republic of Angola
… Minutes of a meeting between delegates from South Africa and Angola to discuss a strategy for peace … stability in Southern Africa. Withdrawal of Cuban…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… that her parents were eager to spread Christianity from within the family and that her name (meaning “mother of … his wife, at her request, after an…
President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation.
… premier since the Victoria Falls meeting between B.J. Vorster and President Kaunda on 25-26 August 1976. Kaunda is yet again criticised in the African press…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… fighting (at which he was quite adept) and model animals from clay. Education When Tambo was six his father informed … that he was to start school, which was…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… his wing to try to instil discipline in him, he graduated from the Naval Academy in Saldanha Bay in 1956, winning the … establishment as his career…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Introduction 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the … at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. About 600 delegates from more…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. About 600 delegates from more than 230 organisations and a crowd of about 13 000 … grew into a nationwide uprising…
President Nelson Mandela’s message to the 1994 Nobel Peace Laureates Broadcast by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, from the National Theatre in Oslo, 11 December 1994
… Broadcast by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, from the National Theatre in Oslo, 11 December 1994 …
Document 66 - Hosea Jaffe , “The First Ten Years of the Non-European Unity Movement”, Excerpts from a lecture delivered to the Cape Flats Educational Fellowship, December 1953
… Ten Years of the Non-European Unity Movement”, Excerpts from a lecture delivered to the Cape Flats Educational …
James Zulu is shot dead from point-blank range at the Port Shepstone taxi rank. At the time of his death, Zulu was the most imp
… James Zulu is shot dead from point-blank range at the Port Shepstone taxi rank. At …
Letter from D. V. Naidoo and Steve Biko to Fort Hare re Conference in December at Mariannhill, Oct. 14, 1968, with enclosed statement, Background to the conference,
… Letter from D. V. Naidoo and Steve Biko to Fort Hare re Conference …
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
… by members of the Security Branch out of a window in John Vorster’s 10th floor or off its roof, leading to his death. … Joao Rodrigues, who testified in the…
”I am Prepared to Die” Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… ”I am Prepared to Die” Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the …
Letter reporting on joint meeting of the Executive Committees of the All African Convention and the African National Congress from Moses Kotane to Professor Z. K. Matthews, May 8, 1949
… All African Convention and the African National Congress from Moses Kotane to Professor Z. K. Matthews, May 8, 1949 …
Refuse to Ship Goods to Abyssinia! Defend the Last Independent Native State in Africa from the Attacks of Italian Imperialism! by Umsebenzi, 22 June 1935, South Africa
… Defend the Last Independent Native State in Africa from the Attacks of Italian Imperialism! by Umsebenzi, 22 …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… in 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies … in exile, but the action was a…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… hands on, including banned books that his friend would get from the library at a school for Coloured learners. It was at … his brutal murder. Ironically, he…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… people’s Church’ or ‘the people’s Cathedral’. During the 1976 student uprisings in Soweto many protesting students … role in the mid 1990s, when Archbishop…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… Afrikaans as a medium of instruction exploded on 16 June 1976 in Soweto and spread to others parts of the country. The … future political direction. The idea…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… of Laws. The question I have pondered without results from the day I first learnt of this possibility and since my … for the development in our society of…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… protests have unsurprisingly drawn comparison with the 1976 protests against Afrikaans : both movements resisted … of Europeans, the indigenous Khoikhoi, and…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… to acquire power in order to wrench gains for workers from management. So the strategy that the leaders developed … with these and endeavour to gain…