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Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… in their fight against international imperialism. Five years have elapsed since the Soweto uprising and …
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… 1900. The Games began on 20 May 1900 and only finished five months later on 28 October 1900. Although Transvaal … won three Gold Medals at the 1920 Games…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our country. Those who have chosen to turn their backs on our festivity…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… Pass laws, permits and all other laws restricting these freedoms shall be abolished. There Shall Be Work and …
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… it Bloemfontein. He argued his case himself before the five judges. "The five old men of Bloemfontein," he used to call them. He had … offence for which…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… police vehicle on December 21, followed by the burning of five more houses and a shop on December 23, led to a huge … 58 seriously damaged and another 36…
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
… social involvement and imprisoned for 10 months total - five months assigned for her involvement opposing the white system, and an additional five added just…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… means of voicing themselves in the sovereign forum of the country. I would, for emphasis, reiterate that …
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
Let us now praise famous men Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 44.1 In the canon of human conscience Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is surely the most famously revered in…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… to be expelled from the ICU. At the time four or five members of the ICU National Committee were members of … Act . The charges are dropped against Kotane…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… and adjusting what we do. Even at an ANC Economic Forum I was advised that raising these issues was … to raise such fundamental matters at a closed forum of…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… of government and laws, and, most importantly, to act as a forum for airing grievances. The second meeting was held at … the new Government as an ordinance,…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… for a similar period of fourteen years, starting at age five. The fragmentation of families and the trauma of these … of the slave trade by Britain in 1808…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… of three foster homes that I was to live in over the next five years. During these years I was to see my mother for … job with an expatriate family twice a…
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
… to say how when Christ had fed all those people with just five loaves and fishes everyone thought he was great and they … examination centres were also…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
Members of the Luthuli Family, Honourable Premier, Dr Zweli Mkhize; Hon Minister of Arts and Culture Mr Paul Mashatile; His Majesty King Zwelithini…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… flood after 308mm of rain fell in 24 hours. Drought lasted five to seven years around this time. The mayor of the town … for the same year (190 Blacks, 49…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
Text of the Nobel Lecture delivered by Chief Albert Lutuli in the Oslo University, on December 11, 1961 In years gone by, some of the greatest men of our…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… They discovered the value of setting up a ‘group system’ – five or six main ‘groups’ or ‘finance houses’ that exercised …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… define the ANC and its allied organizations for the next five decades. This dissertation contends that the Indian … The Long Road to Freedom: Inkundla Ya…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… "Albie Sachs" debate, which has Sachs's comment that a five-year moratorium be declared on "culture as a weapon of …
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… equal rights to their languages, culture and religious freedoms. These provisions, among others, will address the …
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… work on the sugar farms for three years (later amended to five years) in return for the cost of their journey from India to Natal. Once the three or five…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… The racial composition of those present was 11 Africans, five whites, two Indians and one Coloured person. For the …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
Programme Director, Your Excellency, the Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, And esteemed members of the Indian delegation, Ministers and Deputy…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our country. Those who have chosen to turn their backs on our festivity…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C). In 1930 the University College was upgraded…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… banned on the 31st of March 1960 and the regime imposed a five month state of emergency. The ANC went underground. In … inferiority``. On 25 October 1962,…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1972
The Building of a Nation Speech by O.R. Tambo - commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the ANC, on January 8th, 1972 After the festivities,…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
Members of the Hani family, Premier Noxolo Kiviet and members of the provincial executive, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Executive Mayor of Chris Hani…