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ArchiveMozambique General 1984
ArchiveMozambique General 1983
ArchiveManufacturing Tobacco 1998
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… SA Today awards. Ainslie was killed in a car accident in 1989. …
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous for many things,…
Message to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President, Anti-Apartheid Movement, on the 25th Anniversary of its Founding by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1984
Dear Mr. President, The African National Congress congratulates the British Anti-Apartheid Movement on the twenty-fifth anniversary of its founding and wishes…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish immigrants (from Latvia and Lithuania, respectively) who helped…
ArchiveEnd Conscription Campaign Annual Report for Cape Western Region: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1986
End Conscription Campaign Annual Report for Cape Western Region: Report Presented at National Conference on 15 March 1986 discussing conscription, Black Sash…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… to cruel and inhumane torture by malicious warders. In 1989, by then aged 71, Tsafendas was transferred to …
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
Colonial domination, because it is total and tends to over-simplify, very soon manages to disrupt in spectacular fashion the cultural life of a conquered…
Document 46. “Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders” [For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949
[For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949 This historic joint meeting of the representatives of the national organisations of the African and Indian people,…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… The Press in South Africa (London: James Currey Ltd., 1989), 29-30. 14 Special Collections, The Cordoned Heart … History as Film (Cambridge, MA: Harvard…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
"A call to action From: Sechaba, September 1969 (Abridged text) For over fifty years the African National Congress has led the people of South Africa in the…
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
We are marking two important occasions in the history of our protracted struggle at a time when the revolutionary fervour amongst all sections of the black…
Statement at the International Labour Conference (extract) by O. R. Tambo, Geneva, 19 June 1986
Our struggle has entered a phase which marks the final days of the apartheid system of colonial and racist domination. The extraordinary challenge…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
On the night of the 19th of November in the South African city of Durban, agents of the Pretoria regime brutally assassinated Griffiths Mxenge. Using knives,…
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
The formulation and declaration by the United Nations Organisation of human rights and the fundamental freedoms was a great achievement. It marked a…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
We are marking two important occasions in the history of our protracted struggle at a time when the revolutionary fervour amongst all sections of the black…
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United…
The 1949 Durban ‘Riots' - A case study in Race and Class by E.C. Webster
ArchiveCampaign against Passes in the Transvaal in 1919 by E. S. Reddy, 04 March 2012
ArchiveReport on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammanskraal on February 1-2, 1980
Report on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammaskraal to discuss forced removals and how if affected people. It is argued in this speech…
ArchiveUnions call for action by the end of 1985: But do members agree?
ArchiveMy dream for Africa: Speech to workers in Johannesburg - Jeppe Hostel, July 8 1984
ArchiveNotes on meeting between Director-General and President Savimbi on 26 October 1988
Meeting between the Director-General of Namibia and President Savimbi on the progress of the Namibian negotiations and the political situation in Angola
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
Compatriots, Forty eight hours ago P.W. Botha announced a state of emergency affecting the Eastern Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle. Already in…