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Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… and women lost their lives in the war of independence, the civil war and the war against Nazism and Fascism. That very history demands that we address you…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… pressure in the form of strikes, boycotts and civil disobedience from the voteless four-fifths of the … box. Nelson Mandela gave impressive evidence on the…
ArchiveAppendix 3 The Freedom Charter
… mothers; Miners, domestic workers, farm workers and civil servants shall have the same rights as all others who …
Note on meeting with Mr. Sam Nujoma -1983
… mothers; Miners, domestic workers, farm workers and civil servants shall have the same rights as all others who …
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
… mothers; Miners, domestic workers, farm workers and civil servants shall have the same rights as all others who …
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe joins together three periods in our history: the first, the period of wars of resistance waged by … Germany. In no other part of the…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe joins together three periods in our history: the first, the period of wars of resistance waged by … Germany. In no other part of the…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… host a man who has made such a significant impact on world history. Since the first stirrings of democracy in South … Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa, to…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… same year. A treaty with the English is ratified to avert civil war. The Sand River Convention. 1853 Rustenburg’s first …
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… of an Igbo woman, her own ethnic group, during the civil war of the 1960’s. She also explores ethnicity in …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… movement of recent years. A good starting point in the history of South African documentary photography is 1950s. … gave life to the campaigns and people who…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent history people in the country still remember. Close to 3,000 … of important turning points in its…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… to affect Africa. 47,000 Kenyan Africans volunteer for service. 1915 The British settlers take 5,186 hectares from … minister in the first coalition…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… and hygiene and ambulance. Recruiting for the Indian Service Corps (mechanical and transport section) began under … that the electioneering had been …
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… are not new or something born in recent years. The whole history of the African people since Union is studded with our … insult to injury, extended them, for…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… Epistles may be deeply engraved in South African cultural history, and perhaps even celebrated throughout the African … "This story hasn't been told because…
PlaceWindermere
… with the winter rains and which entered their homes. Oral history accounts tell of this flooding as one of the many … showed that 90% were forced to move to…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
… and friends. This is an important day in the political history of our country. It is a day which should give comfort … wish. To us as a democratic movement,…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… My brother Frank had become an officer in the Royal Army Service Corps and very soon he went to France and was … information officers in the South African…
PlaceCairo, Capital City of Egypt
… Cities! On the Nile River, Cairo is famous for its own history, preserved in the fabulous medieval Islamic city and … was built on a hill by the caliph- …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… Wage labour was a time away from home like military service — but men should return home soon as it was over, … through their ‘home-boy’ networks, entered…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… people in the world. We were on the wrong side of history. History had placed us on the back of the tiger of white … now expected to withdraw apologetically…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… compromise nor peaceful coexistence. The very recent history of Europe herself proves this. This was as much the … to haul down their colonial flags and to…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… On this day in history, prominent activist Tseko Simon Nkoli died of an AIDS … |South African History Online, “Biography of Tseko Simon Nkoli”, South African…
`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008
… goes to the ANC". "Do not vote for angry people without a history, legacy, policies and a clear programme of action," …
ArchiveStatement Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, ANC Chief Whip Nkosinathi Nhleko, 10 May 2004, Parliament Cape Town South Africa
… De Klerk. They forever remain bent on misrepresenting our history and our people`s aspirations. People of South Africa …
PlaceBertrams, Johannesburg
… and has become a place of Poverty. Bertrams has a History of displacement which dates back 80 years." Ismail …
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… at heart and used to an ideology of tyranny” and that his history under such kings as Shaka AND Dingaan showed this, …
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 32 …
Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to E. R. Roux, 8 May 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 22 … South Africa's Radical Tradition a…