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ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… the buildings where we are today represent a political history which reaches back through many centuries. They … this historic enclave, because, hidden by…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… in 2012 is a momentous event in South African and African history. It will also be the occasion for nationwide … the present. Since 1994, public engagement…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… out of the gates of Victor Verster Prison, a moment in our history that signalled perhaps more vividly than any other … we gather here humbled by the…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… a further source of joy for us as hosts. Free at last from colonial and white minority rule. Africa has the possibility … Non-Aligned Movement. It is…
Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… possible if part of Africa was still under the yoke of colonial or white minority rule. Accordingly, one of the … as conscious agents of change. The business…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… , the Port Natal Administration Board starts employing women in order to save money. While men had been paid R200 per month, women were paid R52 for the same…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… of self-determination as it was not placed fully under colonial administration. However, the local economy was … History of Uganda [online] Available at:…
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… by Tembu (Tambookies) who were granted a location by the colonial government in recognition of their loyalty to the …
PlaceElukhanyweni
… Eyre of the 73rd Royal Highlanders. In March 1853 the Cape Colonial Government declared the area immediately surrounding …
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… Congress, the South African Students` Congress and the UDF Women`s Congress Alliance; and notwithstanding the military … Font, the trade unions, especially…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… eternally towards my father Jew … I shall die at war with women.” [xxv] Although there is no recorded history between Nortje and his father, he removes his…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … the villagers to take care of their children chiefly young…
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… of Afro-Asian Solidarity Movement and the Pan-African Women's Organisation (PAWO). With the unbanning of the ANC, … She took up the position of national…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… in a liberatory struggle it is necessary to rewrite the history of the past. It is part of the very process of liberation to expose the distortions of…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… fair, objective or friendly institutions, (par 2.3.2.) A history over some years of State complicity in undercover …
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… as a whole. As individuals we have been called upon by history to represent the collective aspirations of a people … National Congress and its allies, we…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… key development during this period was the Admission of Women . In 1886 the Professor of Chemistry, Paul Daniel Hahn, convinced the Council to admit 4 women…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… leadership at all critical moments in our country's history. As the Union of South Africa was established to the … national movement. As Ismail Vadi notes in…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… strikers were demonstrating, a group of highly efficient women hastily prepared sandwiches. But we were still faced … for the strike. At five o'clock every…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… the South African Confederation of Trade Unions (SACOTU). History NACTU was founded on the 5 October 1986 in … Review, October 1990. Pretorius, Fransjohan…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Bottaro, Jean and Visser, Pippa. (1999). In Search of History Grade 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press Southern …
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… of the ANC, from the camps of Umkhonto weSizwe, from the Women`s and the Youth Leagues and from the ANC`s missions … In this connection we wish to point out…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… this venue. Collecting, documenting, counting, archiving, history and texts produce works such as the 121 cut-out … too predictable as the figures swarm over…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Indian community Mount Edgecombe, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 18 April 2014
… past meted out against Africans, Indians, Coloureds and women. Since the inception of democracy in 1994, we have … are informed by our correct appreciation…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… to be a free citizen of Boksburg. It is a city whose own history embodies our country's past and its hopes for the … behalf, in memory of Chris Hani and the…
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… according to the "scorched earth" policy, herded White women and children and Blacks living in the country into … in the camps. Click here to read more on…
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
… was needed to make union members of these young Afrikaner women, who had brought with them the traditions of the rural … We had to look to the world trade…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… as a library, before being converted into Durban’s biggest history museum. It boasts two floors of exhibition space depicting aspects of the region’s early…
PlaceEthiopia
… studies and involvement in her mother’s campaign to win women the right to vote. With her mother and older sister–Christabel–she helped found the Women’s…