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EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… successor as President of the ANC and of the Republic of South Africa.This meeting was the first ever between the Congress … M., (2007). Thabo Mbeki: The…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… FOREWORD Cyril Ramaphosa ANC President Fellow South Africans, The freedom we enjoy today was achieved … together, can we strengthen democracy and grow South…
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
… One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved over … contrast to the dry canyons found elsewhere in Southern…
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
… Fleishman, Jennie Reznek and Mandla Mbothwe, returned to South Africa and officially established themselves in Observatory , … Nominated as Best Actress,…
PlaceMalawi
… range of southern Malawi have been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The Bijagós Archipelago is recognized … to the San societies found in most parts…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… my whiteness for so many years, ever since I came to South Africa. I had accepted that whites, simply because of the … how many thousands of unlicensed…
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… best career ranking ever, when he was placed 6th in the world in May 1995.[iii] Ferreira competed in the 1996 Atlanta … star Amanda Coetzer in 2000 to win…
ANC National Working Committee statement following its meeting held on the 20th January 2014, 21 January 2014
… other prevalent diseases in our country and the developing world as a whole. The NWC of the ANC therefore calls upon all South Africans to equally reject…
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… of 1925, Afrikaans became one of the official languages of South Africa. The development of Afrikaans can be traced to arrival … these influences, as various…
Arise! Vukani!
… was of liberation struggles taking place, mainly in South Africa, but also other national and class struggles in … Palestine and Namibia. Support was also…
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… peaceful negotiations for a democratic dispensation in South Africa. In the process they set an example to the rest of the world that conflicts could be…
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… this rule served on our people, the ANC, supported by the South African Indian Congress, called on the masses to action. And on June 26, 1950, South Africa…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… Mother Teresa, the nun who captured the world's attention and accolades with her selfless devotion to … the headquarters of her charity. Mother Teresa…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… struggle by placing trained ANC guerrillas back on South African soil. The planners of the campaign wanted to … and at least one MK guerrilla managed to…
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… 22 October 1999 was a red-letter day in South African boxing history, as both Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga captured world titles. Mbityi, South African …
EventMandela meets Taiwanese Foreign Minister
… Yen President met with President Nelson Mandela. While South Africa had maintained a friendly official relationship with … was duly rewarded with economic…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… Ladies and gentlemen, One of South Africa's most valuable assets is the vibrant civil society … detention without trial. Never again will our nation be at…
Insurrections III: The Storming
… Theatre in 2012, for the Centre for Creative Arts’ Poetry Africa festival in 2013 at the Homecoming Centre have … and vibraphone) and Tina Schouw (guitar and…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… Histories Today. Johannesburg: Wits University Press and South African History Online. The African National Congress, Africa’s oldest and most famous…
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… use of the death penalty was suspended in February 1990, South Africa had one of the highest rates of judicial executions in the world. Recently, a South…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
… Dr. MacBrides death had left a void in the ranks of the world-wide, common struggle aimed at human liberty, universal … to the liberation movements and…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… sought refuge in the British consulate in Durban after the South African Government was hot on their heels for … activists declared that they had succeeded…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… on a date for the start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's future constitution, a Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) . Its opening…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… to impact heavily on government and businesses in South Africa. As a result, the government was in search of a … limited opportunities for Black people in…
Address as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 9th Session of the Islamic Summit Conferences, Doha, State Of Qatar, 12 November 2000
… among other things, to the promotion and maintenance of world peace and security. The Non Aligned Movement fully … Xenophobia and related Intolerance, to be…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994
… the blessings of reconciliation among all the people of South Africa! We pray with you so that the blessings of peace may … in which province they live, like…
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … of the buying-power of the £. For instance, tea…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the twentieth anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union, 01 July 1974
… and all members of the African National Congress of South Africa, I convey warm greetings and profound feelings of … struggles, fought with arms, bring…
Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union by O. R. Tambo, July 1974
… and all members of the African National Congress of South Africa, I convey warm greetings and profound feelings of … struggles, fought with arms, bring…
EventSA experiences a monetary crisis due to the heavy drain of gold from the country during the Great Depression
… Depression had a profound effect on economies around the world and South Africa was no exception. South Africa's greatest exports at … Great Depression in…