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ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
Ladies and gentlemen Friends and colleagues and especially my good friends from the media. Thank you very much to all of you for taking time out of your very…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
THE ROOM IS deeply silent, but robustly populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade…
PlacePosthuys
Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a lookout post for enemy ships entering…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
A site of knowledge: Driekopseiland South Africa has a large number of historical rock-engraving sites, where South Africa’s original inhabitants carved human…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
This interesting and Historic Village of Genadendal is the oldest Moravian Mission Village in Africa, with Church buildings and a School that dates back to…
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
The Voortrekker Monument is located just South of Pretoria, in South Africa. This massive granite Structure is prominently located on a Hilltop, and was Built…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
Fellow South Africans, Today, August 9th is National Women's Day. On this day, as a nation, we re-commit ourselves to the advancement of women at all levels of…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
We, South African communists and progressives, are very pleased that the People's Publishing House has considered it of sufficient importance to come out with…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
The Right Honourable Rev. Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
Distinguished Mayors of Greater Johannesburg; Members of the National and Provincial legislatures; Dear Friends and Comrades; Ladies and Gentlemen. …
Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal, 1929 [Extracts]
1. Name And Jurisdiction The Organization shall be known as the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union Yase Natal (hereinafter referred to as the I.C.U. or…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC In 1950 the Communist Party, faced with…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
JAMES Baldwin once described the US as "the most desperately schizophrenic of republics". I wonder what he would have made of the presence of so many of the…
Address at the World Food Summit, 10 June 2002
Honourable Chairperson, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations, Your…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education acolyte– an assistant or follower ad hoc– formed only…
Biographical Introduction
The fact that the artists in this exhibition represent a largely 'neglected tradition' was nowhere more clearly demonstrated than in the effort to compile a…
PlaceBlyde River Canyon, Mpumalanga
One of the largest green canyons in the world, the Blyde River Canyon is a masterpiece carved over millions of years by the Blyde River as it cut through…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
Development of Langa locationIn the course of the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more formal structure for…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
I would have been fourteen years old when Nelson Mandela was first arrested for leaving South Africa ‘illegally`. Although a regular reader of the Manchester…
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honorable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honorable…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
Umtata, 8 January 2005 Compatriots and comrades, On the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of the African National Congress, January 8th 2005, we extend…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
It took nearly two years of formal talks to remove the obstacles in the path of multi-party negotiations. However, it was not until nearly ten months after…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
The Prime Minister described and analysed the political dispensation of the day in an exemplary fashion. It was his first public appearance following the…
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
As amended and adopted at the 5th National Conference - July 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preamble Rules Rule 1 Name Rule 2 Aims and Objectives Rule 3…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 3 February 2006 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Madame…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
The new constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly…
Article2016 in Review
In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it has been. At the end of the first week…
ArticleDrum Magazine
The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes that…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
In the latter part of 1959, PAC membership was still below expectations, and it became clear to the leadership that the movement would have to produce some…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
Scanned in copy of the last page of the Treaty of Vereeniging, click to enlarge and view other pages Industrialization and British imperialism in South Africa…