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Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… twenty-five years has offered them the alternative of the Freedom Charter. In terms of that Charter, it is the people as a … They have not paid any heed to…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… of South Africa, who gave birth to the clauses of the Freedom Charter at a Congress of the People in Kliptown, Soweto in … the Congress of the People in…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… in schools. There was also some popularisation of the Freedom Charter through its distribution at public meetings and at … demonstration at Natal University,…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… Samuel Jonas who later followed them to the gallows. The freedom we celebrate on 27 April each year came at an immense … sacrifices of our comrades who paid…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… and Indian peoples and appeals to all democratic and freedom loving citizens of South Africa to support fully and … and compulsory education to non-European…
EventNUSAS disbands
… have been co-opted by the government, it had adopted the Freedom Charter and developed a relationship with the Congress of …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… anger and inspired a rededication to the struggle for freedom. Progressive Federal Party parliamentarian, Helen … South Africa under Chapter VII of the…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… I am truly honoured to celebrate nation-building, freedom, peace and unity with you, as you pay tribute to some … time as we prepare to mark the fourth…
Chapter X - Final word
… I could still make my contribution to the struggle for freedom and justice and to the young. I was nervous at first. … I have had the honour of giving the…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… the Azanian Students Organistion (AZASO) adopted the Freedom Charter, shedding its allegiance to Black Consciousness, and … home where the youth discussed…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… with the meeting if they discussed June 16 or the Freedom Charter of 1955 …
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… Dr. Xuma's attack to indicate his methods. He attacks the Freedom Charter without indicating a single clause or phrase with … in the "World" that the Free…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… tenure, in 1955, in Kliptown near Johannesburg, that the Freedom Charter, which embraced the ideological principles of the …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… members adhering to the African National Congress’ (ANC) Freedom Charter which promotes non-racialism. AZAPO boycotted the …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… new. It has been continually forged in the struggle for freedom. Enforced division has engendered in our people a powerful urge towards unity as a condition…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… of South African security legislation by which a person’s freedom of movement, association, speech and action were … ”” government by decisions of the…
BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
… management was a dark day in the history of Academic Freedom in South Africa—his protests about academic … “Three Worlds Meet—Origins to 1620” and “Slavery…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights and of the Freedom Charter adopted by the ANC, UDF and COSATU, culture belongs … the CASA Choir of 300 Dutch…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… unionist, a well-rounded ANC leader and a devotee to human freedom. On behalf of government, let me take this … who dedicated sixty years of his life to the…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… clandestinely. He was instrumental in the drafting of the Freedom Charter, but was unable to attend the Congress of the People …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… to “triumph”. In June of the same year (1955), the Freedom Charter was adopted at Kliptown, where Africans, Indians, …
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… year we shall re-dedicate ourselves to the struggle for freedom in that great assembly of the people, where we shall write a charter for freedom. The…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee was found on this date at the Natal North …
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
… cannot countenance and still claim to be fighting for freedom from domination and suppression. 4. The Congress … of the 1940`s and have even forgotten the…
’Asinamali’
… campaign myself. In Port Elizabeth we had a big strike on Freedom Day to support that call. That stay-away was also to popularize the Freedom Charter, to let…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… aspirations and rights embodied in the United Nations Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights. Not only have … and Namibia, and by the imprisonment of…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… aspirations and rights embodied in the United Nations Charter and the Declaration of Human Rights. Not only have … and Namibia, and by the imprisonment of…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… in 1955, just a few months after our people adopted the Freedom Charter. It was in this seminal document that our people … away in the year that we…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… rule. The colonies began to pressurise the colonisers for freedom and decolonization began. The theory of nationalism … of African nationalism. [20] Firstly,…
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… of non-racial democracy based on the United Nations freedom charter. Drum , Johannesburg, June 1961 …