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Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
March 1 marks the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Adwa, a decisive victory of Ethiopia over Italian colonialism. This great victory has been a source of…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, Your Excellency, Dr Boutrous Boutrous Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations, …
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
Life Fatima Zohra Imalayen was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar 1996). She grew up learning both Arabic and French…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… Act of 1931 (which gave every White male person over 21 years of age the franchise), by the Native Bills of 1936 …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… in addition, is an African miracle. Ten years ago, a mere 21 days before South Africa held the first democratic …
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… the Party) and quite detached from the Congress Alliance.12 These cells would “familiarize themselves with the … even closer to the party. He wrote in his…
Mission Stations - A-F
… stone and their cavity was filled with dagga. The fort had 12 feet high walls and resembled a peasant's fortification, …
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… republic). The fight against imperialism, wrote Trotsky in 1938, is a part of the fight for democracy in backward and …
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… Session. It is the first time, since its establishment 12 years ago, that the Organisation of African Unity has …
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… the “fears, feelings and intimately personal sides” (p.12) of workers, in addition to broader insights into the …
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… up with all the problems. The union grew from perhaps 12 000 members at its launch to over 80 000 by 1993 and 120 …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
IMPORTANT NOTE: CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY – Due to time constraints, President Mbeki omitted portions of his speech during the delivery, but the full prepared…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… today ask ourselves as to what have we done in the past 12 years to remove all laws, regulations, conventions and …
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… for African freedom. Izwe lethu i Afrika! Issued by the19: 12:1959. National Executive Committee, Pan Africanist …
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… rather than having separate national organisation units. 12. The Population Registration Act During the conduct of the …
Restrictions on the media
… With the new emergency regulations-each set lasted for 12 months - from 11 June 1988 Botha retained the right to …
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… store in South Africa would counterpart in Lesotho. On its 12 borders, it has towns on the South African side where …
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… tiny farm house. At 14, she was the youngest of a group of 12 who skipped the country, eventually ending up in a camp in …
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… me, it starts most directly in January 1999, when I was 12 years old. That was when my parents first drove me from …
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 4 - 19 by Carol Hermer
… each other. So the black policeman said, ' Ai indoda , 12 where are you going?' Mr. M. smiled back and said he was … the police many of the allegations were…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, Cape Town, 9 February 2001 Madame Speaker…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
The passive resistance campaign was launched on 13 June 1946 and finally suspended on 31 May 1948. The report of the Passive Resistance Council, reproduced…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… the historic truth - of the miners' strike. Monday: August 12 From the Rand Daily Mail Several Injured in Skirmishes: …
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… of being a Special Branch policeman (Matshikiza 1961a, 12). Thus, Matshikiza veils his own complex fears of being … called a “triumph of black and white co…
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… in a massive increase in power to the grid over the next 12 to 18 months and beyond. This power will be in line with … types of crime. Last year, we…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… he is now even more hardened in his political sense than 12 years ago…I am convinced that if he is released from …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… providing more than 17.4 million social grants to almost 12 million South Africans. In 1994, we inherited a … to opportunities. Government provides free…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… he was tried in Cape Town Supreme court, and sentenced to 12 years for distributing pamphlets. He was meant to spend 12 years in prison, from 1978 to 1990,…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… the goalposts and derailing the negotiation process. On 12 April 1991 the ANC unveiled its proposed constitutional … time the constitutional proposals of the…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Ibid. Page 10. ↵ [xlviii] Ibid. Page 9 ↵ [xlix] Ibid. Page 12. ↵ [l] Ibid. Page 13. ↵ [li] Ibid. ↵ [lii] Ibid. …