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ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… (1986-87). He was detained again for three months in 1989, and was hospitalized along with other prison hunger …
ArchiveWhen legal is not good enough: The Grasmere Case: Paper presented at National Conference 1984
When lLegal is not good enough: The Grasmere Case: Paper presented at National Conference on 17 March 1984 discussing forced removals, housing, employment,…
ArchiveThe Black Sash Natal Coastal Region Advice Office Annual Report Presented at National Conference 1981
Natal Coastal Region Advice Office Annual Report Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1981 discussing case statistics, case histories, pensions,…
ArchiveThe development and formation of the end conscription campaign: paper presented at National Conference 1984
The development and formation of the end conscription campaign: paper presented at National Conference on 17 March 1984 discussing history of the end…
ArchiveAlleged Police Violence in the Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage Area: Paper Presented at National Conference 1986
Alleged Police Violence in the Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage Area: Paper Presented at National Conference on 15 March 1986 discussing police brutality, riots, mob…
ArchiveMunicipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1987
Municipal Police in the Eastern Cape: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 13 March 1987 discussing assaults by police, torture, human…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… books of South African resistance photography, wrote in 1989, "Goldblatt is joined by a growing number of South … three national states of emergency in 1986,…
BiographyPieter Streicher Steyn
Professor Pieter Steyn was born in 5 January 1940 in Vryburg in the North West. He is currently a senior researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer…
BiographyNorman “Billy Holiday” Pietersen
Norman Pietersen (also known as Billy Holiday) was born in 1966 in Paarl, Western Cape. In 1982, he was recruited by uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) veterans and became…
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
Question: At the end of August, the regime conducted its "elections" to the "Coloured" and Indian parliaments. As expected, the whole exercise turned out to be…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
Mr. Ken Livingstone, Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Ambassador Sahnoun, Honourable Mr. Hughes, Ladies and gentlemen, May I begin by expressing the thanks…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Comrade Director and members of the Directorate, Comrade National…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
NEW DELHI: 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries at its meeting of…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
We are a force 2 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Comrade Director and…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
On March 9, 1980, the racist Prime Minister of South Africa, P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had decided to summon a…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… popular anti-apartheid movements of the time. In 1987 to 1989 NACTU held several meetings with the ANC, the PAC and …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… 5 November 1987 Govan Mbeki released from prison. 1989 President PW Botha replaced by FW de Klerk after a long … with OR Tambo represented by Thabo Mbeki 14…
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… revive the Nkomati Accord. References: Saunders, C. (ed)(1989). Reader's Digest Illustrated History of South …
BiographyDr Franklin Abraham Sonn
Dr Franklin Abraham Sonn was born in October 1939 in Vosburg in the Karoo, Northern Cape and raised in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape. Dr Sonn graduated from…
BiographyLydia Kompe
Lydia (nee Ngwenya) Kompe was born in 1935 in Matlala, near Pietersburg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Her father was a small-scale farmer…
BiographyTwalimfene Joyi
Twalimfene Joyi, alias Twalimfene Gobinamba, was a sub-Chief from Thembuland, Umtata District (Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape), and a cousin of Bangilizwe…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
Nellie Jibiliza was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active…
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
The people of South Africa, particularly the youth of our country, are renowned for their fearless challenge to the full might of Pretoria's tyranny. In spite…
ArchiveAfrapix - Social Documentary Photography in 1980s South Africa by Amy McConaghy
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
It is now almost five years since Canon John Collins passed away. With his departure, many of us lost a dear friend. As a people, we lost a fellow-combatant…
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
Botha`s British Allies When the Pretoria regime imposed new restrictions on the press a week ago, it was in the hope that by pushing the ugly reality of…
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
Your Worship, Mayor Obed Mlaba Mayors of Local Councils Distinguished Guests Citizens of Durban I am truly honoured to be receiving the Freedom of…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
Racism in Isolation South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha that the apartheid system will…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
[Oliver Tambo addressed more than 10,000 people who attended the funeral service of members of the ANC massacred by raiders from the South African Defence…