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EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… prisoners and to all persons imprisoned, interned or subjected to other restrictions for opposing the policy of …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… with a policy that we cannot be party to in any shape or form'. Rather than sell the schools to the Government, as …
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… not clear whether the delegation would be a mainly White or a White only delegation to discuss matters affecting …
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… became members of the South African Defense Force (SADF), or the South African Police (SAP). They were used to enforce …
EventANC rejects National Party proposal for a new constitution
… the ANC's response to the IFPs constitutional proposals or click here to read more on the ANC's view on the …
EventUS Secretary of State Colin Powell is heckled by activists on the closing day of the World Summit.
… Critics dismissed it as lacking any meaningful plan or concrete targets. Despite the controversy however, it was …
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… his hands were tied. The women then burnt their passes or tore them up, while they shouted remarks at the policemen …
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… The Transvaal War (also known as the First Boer War or the First War of Independence) was a 'curtain-raiser' to …
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
… not export arms to countries that abused human rights or were divided by civil war. In November, a commission of …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… Charter - Chapter 10 The Final Prize: “Bantu Education or the Street” - Chapter 11 The Final Prize: A Charge of …
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… occupation and hundreds of students have been expelled, or arrested. All this has failed to curb the growing … system has to be liquidated. It cannot be…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… occupation and hundreds of students have been expelled, or arrested. All this has failed to curb the growing … system has to be liquidated. It cannot be…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… our movement who are not here - members of the NEC in jail or hospitals or elsewhere on duty, to congratulate you on successfully … ranks, and moving out in…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… unions, locked in all-male compounds on the mines, or segregated in grim ghettos in the interstices of the … towns, their movement controlled by the internal…
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… policy of the Congress, and (ii) to criticise any official or decision of the Congress; such criticism shall be made to members of Congress or at a properly…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… which in the past have led to division and dissention ...or we .follow the only course which has proved successful … drawn that because of this major issue…
A volatile case of Afrikan vs. Indian in KwaZulu-Natal by Jackie Shandu, 7 April 2015, South Africa
… eye to those problems – they either need to be resolved or confronted. In its seven cardinal pillars and founding … whilst you are relegated to aimless…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Mercosur Heads of State Summit Ushuaia, 24 July 1998
… my privilege over recent weeks to visit several regional or continental associations - the Organisation of African … to closer links between people,…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… of our Khoi heroine, Saartjie Baartman. As we know, or should know, when Bartholomew Dias and later Vasco da Gama … a lovelier place then existed on the face…
Nelson Mandela Letter to Mrs. Manorama Bhalla, secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 3 August 1980
… period there could hardly be a liberation movement or national leader who was not influenced in one way or another by the thoughts, activities and example of…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… but all may be roughly characterized as either "Ethiopian" or "Zionist." The Ethiopian churches typically arose as … but the extent to which they are…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… ‘I am afraid of being eaten up by either the Portuguese or the Boers…but I do not want to be eaten up. I wish to be … and that he should not believe any…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… the kind of fixed boundaries, whether physical borders or more theoretical ones, that characterize global dynamics … coffee, sugar and cotton. Diaspora as a…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… he has said about me so many times, whether it is true or not, I want to repeat to him a thousand times, and this … the years of our political life, whether…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… the German Military System, whereby Employment was created or reserved for ex-servicemen. Adolf Schiel, who was to play … event of War, required very little…
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… end in South Africa of trade unionism for the Africans, or what little of it exists; and for the Coloured and White … company unions are what the African…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… of our Party that I have been absent from ordinary or plenary sessions of the Central Committee. Furthermore, … understanding, do our cadres have a clear…
Address of the president of the republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, to the summit meeting of the OAU heads of state and government Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, June 8 1998
… of age, can say, with conviction, that "the tree of or bitterness has come full leaf" and that the autumn of our … we should treat the question of peace and…
Address to Foreign Correspondents association Johannesburg, 26 November 1998
… destiny, and that the differences amongst us, political or otherwise are transcended by the need to survive and … was not always kept distinct from mere…
Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… offer to raise a Corps of 5,000 men for services at home or abroad. I have also a clear recollection of the great … whether they have actually been in the…