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Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… of our country, because at no point during its entire history has our country been in a better position to confront … we have to pursue, at no point during…
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
… are in production than at any other time in South Africa's history. Millions now enjoy the benefits of electricity. … just this week. For the first time in…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… unimaginable in Southern Africa 18 months ago are now history. Pretoria has negotiated Angolan Peace and Namibian … of uMkhonto we Sizwe it elucidated: "The…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… Joe Slovo. In marking these important occasions in the history of our ongoing struggle for national liberation, we will draw on the inspiration of those who…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 89th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2001
… National Congress. On this important day in our country's history and our national calendar, the National Executive … and communication. As the peoples of…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… does not base this part of his analysis upon the peculiar history of South Africa, but upon the particular value … writing a Post-script and what its title, …
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… a few exceptions to the rule in South African labour history, and there lies the historical significance of the … expression of workers' militancy in the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at Sharpeville, Transvaal …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © Bailey's African History Archive. Numerous factors characterised the …
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… in the countryside. Her intention was “to record the history of what happened from the day when we left our homes … University of Natal, Durban. Pg 71 [xvii]…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… not merely with the ANC but also with the people of whose history it is a part. We would like to thank the trade union …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… not merely with the ANC but also with the people of whose history it is a part. We would like to thank the trade union …
Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
… events that marked significant developments in the history of human relations. It reminds us of the Berlin …
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… freedom. We find ourselves at another such moment in our history, where we are called upon to restore the movement …
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… culture. This article forms part of the South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project …
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… and the fulfilment of human purpose – what the masters of history characteristically want to like to highlight – but of …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… as the mobilization around wage hearings. Very broadly the history of the developing cheap labour system and the …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… nation-wide general union of black workers — the ICU. Its history, its successes and its failures have been described. …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… unskilled workers. In this first period of Johannesburg’s history, ore, the town’s housing pattern was that of most …
Address at the National Council Of Provinces, 12 November 2002
… goals, it is time that all of us outgrow the period in our history when resort to violence to attain political …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
… making a positive mark on the course of South Africa's history;but also that this is steadily but surely being …
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 31 …
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… nationalism can be a dynamic and irresistible force in history." [64] In fact, this became a "natural tendency" in …
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… from government nor from the ANC. Due to our particular history, we settled on two South African judges, one white …
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Against multi-racialism we have this objection, that the history of South Africa has fostered group prejudices and …
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… Against multi-racialism we have this objection, that the history of South Africa has fostered group prejudices and …
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… declining years of the apartheid regime, South Africa's history is characterized by cultural oppression; consequently …
Pretoria Socialist Society
… is passing through some of the most difficult times in its history, I consider it my duty as leader of the African …
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… freedom for all. In this the ANC was not merely bowing to history and reality but believed that it was correct in … Charter had become one of the most famous…