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Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 5th National Congress of COSATU 7 September 1994
… you also have to use, to maximum effect, the elements of political power that we have together achieved in struggle. … from all others before it is the fact…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… This applies to all areas of South African life: political, white minority rule is doomed, but there is not … concluding I wish to make some remarks on the…
Nelson Mandela Letter to Mrs. Manorama Bhalla, secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 3 August 1980
… Teresa, international statesman Josip Broz Tito, notable political leaders Julius Nyerere and Kenneth Kaunda, medical … Congress. If I may presume to look…
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Act in April 1960, were forced to conduct their political activities underground. …
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… After 22 years as a political prisoner and 24 years thereafter I felt it was time … man. My first wife Esmé loved me and we worked together as political…
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… is unemployed and a quarter is not Economically active. Political Background Like most South African Towns, Barberton … public violence. As Apartheid became…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… a distant struggle. This region has, in song and verse, in political philosophy and action, long been a source for the … The co-operation, which we seek, is…
80. Local affairs committees: a means to an end
… The community, until the mid-1960s, was in a state of political limbo. All lines of communication between the … those who are on right the following is posed…
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
eMalahleni, formerly Witbank, in the Mpumalanga Province, East of Pretoria. Established in 1890 as Witbank, it is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… and gold in 1886- dramatically changed the economic and political structure of southern Africa. South Africa had an … stay in segregated neighbourhoods or…
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… is an analyst and professional public speaker on current political and historical questions. He writes a regular … on Creamer Media’s polity.org.za. Suttner…
Directive concerning the nature of the forthcoming ANC consultative conference in Morogoro by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1969
… our work. The purpose of this conference was to review our political situation, set new tasks and improve our machinery … with the forces of White supremacy…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… including legal and illegal ones, combining both the political and the military. The masses of the oppressed black … to seek to raise the level of conscious,…
Directive Concerning the Nature of the Forthcoming ANC Consultative Conference in Morogoro by O. R. Tambo, March 1969
… our work. The purpose of this conference was to review our political situation, set new tasks and improve our machinery … with the forces of White supremacy…
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… disregard by the legislatures in southern Africa. THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF INDIA AS A MEMBER OF THE BRITISH … would have to rely entirely on themselves…
EventSouth Africa's first multiracial elections start
… the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial …
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… the people his grandfather made to suffer because of their political ideologies, while hoping that his contribution …
EventCoup attempt on S Doe's government in Liberia
A coup attempt headed by Brigadier-General Thomas Quiwonkpa, a faction of the Liberian military failed to take power from Samuel Doe. It was a third coup…
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
… of their members, they will soon get an enthusiastic response from them. We realised that it was not enough to … of the union but waiting impatiently for the…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… the enjoyment of the full franchise. This class and caste political segregation made it easy for the rulers later on to … for Natal, the growth of the sugar…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… members of GLOW, South Africa’s first multiracial and political lesbian and gay rights group. During the drafting …
PlaceCote D’Ivoire or Ivory Coast
… kingdoms. The Akan kingdoms introduced highly centralised political systems in Ivory Coast. The first Europeans to …
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… and provincial elections, Tlakula came under attack from political parties with many of them calling for her …
Event90-Days Act comences
… banned organisations. It also allows people convicted of political offences to be held in continuous detention after …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… established, it ushered in a period in which the existing political trends grew in tempo, scope and force. The …
EventSt James Church massacre
… crimes for which amnesty was sought be shown to have a political motivation and that applicants make full disclosure …
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… Despite the fact that there was a growing fear that her political career would be tarnished by testimonies against …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began his political career as a lawyer after completing his studies at …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… implemented the policy of apartheid. Following decades of political turmoil, South Africa became a democracy under the …
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… Pietersburg. The writer Peter Abrahims and artists and political activists such as Ernest Mancoba, also attended the …