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ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 28 January 1980
Incomplete Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting.
ArchiveMessage to Angolan Government from the South African Government, 3 April 1981
Message from the South African Government to the Angolan Government, informing them of information indicating an increase of military activity by SWAPO in…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
The African National Congress of South Africa brings you this urgent call to unity and mass action, by political prisoners on Robben Island to all patriots of…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
On behalf of the African National Congress, its National Executive Committee and the entire oppressed and struggling people of South Africa, I am honoured to…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… was broadly termed the Mass Democratic Movement formed in 1989 (Phahle, Frontline Worker, April-May 1990). Although not … the pseudonym Jeremy Robert in…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
In many colonial and social revolutions, the leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were imprisoned or deported by the…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… out that the ANC in exile had not held a conference since 1989, many cadres called for the convening of another …
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
Neville Alexander 25/3/98, Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib Habib: We generally start off with the question of trying to get people’s…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just three years old, she…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyJustice Gizenga Mpanza
Justice "Gizenga" Mpanza was born on 5 September 1937 at Groutville Mission Reserve. His father was one of Chief Luthuli's indunas (advisors). Mpanza went to…
BiographyRobert M. Resha
Robert M. Resha was born in Bolotwe,Queenstown, Eastern Province [Now Eastern Cape] on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal school and in his late…
BiographyDenis Mayer
Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to…
BiographyAdelaide Frances Tambo
Adelaide Frances Tambo (nee Tshukudu) was born on 18 July 1929 in Top Location, Vereeniging, in the Vaal Triangle. Tambo attended the St Thomas Practising…
BiographyEli Weinberg
Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a…
BiographyAmbrose Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in Soweto. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student strike. This, coupled with that his…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never…
ArchivePastoral letter of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference : the municipal elections of October 26, 1988
Letter of the President and members of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference regarding the municipal elections of October 26, 1988.
ArchiveThe Western Cape- Coloured and White Preference Area- Some Implications : Paper presented at National Conference 1980
The Western Cape- Coloured and White Preference Area- Some Implications- Paper presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing equal rights, race…
ArchiveUnity in Participation Huhudi: A case study in resistance to removal: Paper presented at National Conference 1984
"Unity in Participation" Huhudi: A case study in resistance to removal: paper presented at National Conference on 17 March 1984 discussing forced removals,…
ArchiveStatement of General Secretary of South African Council of Churches, Bishop Desmond Tutu, October 11, 1979
The statement of the General Secretary of the South African Council Of Churches made on October 11, 1979 regarding the serious allegations against SACC made by…
ArchiveThe Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy: Paper presented by Cape Western Region to National Conference 1983
The Coloured Labour Preference Area Policy- Paper presented by Cape Western Region to National Conference on 11 March 1983 discussing apartheid, racial…
ArchiveMinutes of the National Executive Committee Meeting held from the 27 - 30 August 1988 in Lusaka
Minutes of the ANC National Executive Committee Meeting held 27 to 30 August 1988 in Lusaka. Includes discussion of General Secretary's Report, in which South…
ArchivePower, patriotism, principle: Opening Address presented at the Black Sash National Conference held at Pietermaritzburg, 1969
Power, patriotism, principle: Opening address by Jean Sinclair at presented at the Black Sash National Conference held at Pietermaritzburg on 21 October 1969,…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
Funeral of Joe Gqabi Comrade Prime Minister, Honourable Ministers, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Esteemed Zimbabweans, The people of this country…
Address at the Opening of Parliament, National Assembly, Cape Town, 25 June 1999
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces and Deputy Chairperson, Premiers of our Provinces, Distinguished…
EventThe existing ban on marriages between White and Black people (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) is extended to White and Coloured people
On this day in history, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Bill was adopted - despite opposition from the United and Progressive Parties. This…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… and to help conduct and manage fair elections. In 1989, elections were held and SWAPO won with 57% of the votes …