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Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen: I would like to express my deep appreciation for the opportunity to … discuss comprehensively, the challenges of…
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
… Delegates: This historic meeting in Monterrey is a declaration of hope to the peoples of the world that the leadership of countries … and promote sustainable…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the National Council of Provinces Cape Town, 7 August 1998
… this august Council, now in the second year of its service to democracy in South Africa. Part of that service, we believe, is this practice of a Mid-Year…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
… South African Communist Party, Distinguished delegates to the Seventh Party Congress, Honoured guests, Comrades, I … salute too, the great country which…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… in Harare earlier this year, took place against a favourable backdrop of positive developments towards independence for Namibia, and chances of a durable…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… My thanks to Professor Goerling for inviting me to present this paper … Africa: I am happy to report that South Africa has become a democracy and we have, in…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
… Distinguished Guests Comrades and Friends I would like to thank the organisers of this meeting for having invited me to join you this afternoon. The people…
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
… Government policy and the lying propaganda that boosts it to push us further and further apart. What a tragedy that so many should thus be made to live…
ArchiveReturning to the scene of the crime by Inside Time (Inside Time), 31 May 2017
… It was an audacious plan – to find people with criminal convictions who would be … Africa during the apartheid era, decided after he became a victim of…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… Street, Cape Town. 16th June, 1948 My dear Mandela, Now to the discussion on the question of organisation, which is … for good or evil. This on the face of…
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
… Congress of South Africa brings you this urgent call to unity and mass action, by political prisoners on Robben Island to all patriots of our motherland…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… of the independent Zulu kings left the task of resistance to colonial rule to be pursued by minor chiefs. By 1906, one … chiefs, Bambatha, resisted colonial…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… Loots, who has died in Johannesburg at the age of 79, was a senior member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) who was appointed by ANC president Oliver Tambo to…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… minister and then president of South Africa from 1978 to 1989. He is commonly referred to as "Die Groot Krokodil" … Botha became Prime Minister, hoping to…
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… Bronwyn Linden, 35 from Wentworth in Durban was sentenced to death by a high court in Guangdong Province, China for smuggling … Airport, in Guangzhou without…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… and movement of black South Africans. External resistance to the policy came in the form of international condemnation, … Programme of Action was implemented…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… that capture the essence of life itself. Today is such a moment for me. For you are the friends from five continents … of our people, our hopes, our dreams…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Diplomatic Correspondent of Morning Star, 23 November 1967, London
… communique was issued when the Smith regime was trying to give the impression that the clashes in Rhodesia were with … joint communique that as "comrades-in…
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… leader of the African National Congress, was subjected to harsh criticism and utterances verging on libel, due to the position he took in declining to accept…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack by South African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78,…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … 59 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to N…
ArchiveFounding statement for the visit to Washington DC of a delegation of South African church leaders
… Report about a visit to Washington DC by a delegation of South African church leaders namely, Allan … Boesak, Frank Chikane, Beyers Naude and Desmond Tutu,…
EventIt is announced in Rawalpindi that Pakistan has decided to cut ties with South Africa
… Pakistan that the government of Pakistan has decided to ban all exports from Pakistan to South Africa and has issued instructions to Pakistan shipping…
EventMembers of Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to receive death penalty for resisting colonial rule
… Mau oath called for the individual's death if they failed to kill a European farmer, or even their own relations, if they were … seen as collaboraters of the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… invites friends and supporters of our liberation struggle to join with the South African people in commemorating the … that would serve as an instrument of…
Circular Letter To Organisations Concerning The Arrest Of J. N. Singh Under The Immigration Act, November 9, 1946
… feeble democratic structure of South Africa has received a further blow and our country's prestige in the international field has dropped to an even lower…
Matthews being used to turn SABC into a laughing stock: ANC (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016
… from SABC Matthews had declared his decision by posting a photo of his resignation letter‚ addressed to SABC board chair Professor Mbulaheni Mughave‚ on…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… sale of diamonds in some African countries has been linked to the funding of African rebel groups, which have in turn … July 2000, the World Diamond Congress…