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Message by Oliver Tambo to the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Dr. Leabua Jonathan, 13 December 1982
… At this hour of grief for both our peoples, who are further united by the … United Nations Security Council to consider this latest act of aggression by the…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… I now interpret the character, role and significance of SASO. To this end, I draw on the analysis of the previous … to express, with the daring of youth and…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… along with Nyanga in the 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950) reinforced the policy of land dispossession and segregation in South Africa. In … group of…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
… High School and then went on to study at the University of Durban Westville (UDW) and Natal University, now known as the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)…
Luke Mazwembe
… Mr Luke Mazwembe, aged 32 , a member of the Western Province Workers Advice Bureau and of the South African Student Association,was detained under section 22…
BiographyCarol Moses
… was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. … Moses was a struggle activist who…
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
… on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria . He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran Church near Pretoria, and his…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
… (ANC) and mKhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC. After receiving his basic military training in … in rural guerrilla warfare. He was selected…
Statement of the Chairperson of SADC and the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 28th Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, Sandton Convention Centre, South Africa, 16th August 2008.
… Statement of the Chairperson of SADC and the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 28th Ordinary SADC …
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… synonymous. Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scholars has been relegated to the category of ‘ethnomathematics’, as if mathematics…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… A branch of the Khoe-San was the Koranna, who moved onto land which was later to be known as Ottosdal (located in the … people in 1907. They were relocated…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… any political mobilisation. Soweto, the epicentre of the June 1976 uprising, was singled out for special attention. This feature examines the impact of the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… Comrade Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic of Nicaragua and Coordinator of the Executive Commission of the National Directorate of … Statement by…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New … he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996
… Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen; People of Uganda, It is a great honour to join you in celebrating the Independence Day of the Republic of Uganda…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… way by being asked to open this exhibition; awhole stream of people have done far more than I have been able to do for … post for a few years because in 1964…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R Mandela, at the presentation of the Freedom of Miami Beach Medallion of Honour Johannesburg, 29 September, 1992
… a unique privilege to receive the Miami Beach Medallion of Honour. The fact that people, communities and their … our triumphs and our tears, into their…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
… Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama … racists seek to present their retreat…
“India’s Step Most Timely”: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948
… By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian … people of South Africa hope that the…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… On the morning of 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake deformed…
BiographyFred Khumalo
… up in Mpumalanga Township close to the industrial area of Hammersdale, Durban. Growing up in the township exposed him to a lot of crime from an early age,…
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
… Abraham Hermanus de Vries, was born on Tuesday the 9 th of February, in 1937, in a small town and agricultural centre of the western Klein Karoo called,…
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
… ) Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He is one of South Africa’s most distinguished award winning … high school, the young Magubane worked at a number of…
EventThe UN Group of Experts on Apartheid proposes establishment of a National Convention to set a new course for the future of South Africa
… The United Nations Group of Experts on Apartheid presented its report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN). The group suggested the creation…
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… On 4 July 1913, a scuffle broke out between police, mounted soldiers … after strikers attacked them with stones. In the period of 1910 to 1914 organised…
EventMinister of Bantu Administration and Development, MC Botha announces that he will not stand for re-election.
… M.C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announced that he … in November 1977. At the time Botha was at the centre of the land dispute…
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… The ideas of Social Darwinism also affected South Africa. Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the … African, coloured, Indian -…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… State of the Nation Address By His Excellency JG Zuma, President of … five priorities: education, health, rural development and land reform, creating decent…
ArchiveMessage of symphathy and solidarity to the families of comrades that were murdered and the organisations of which they were active members.
… Message of symphathy and solidarity to the families of comrades that were murdered and the organisations of which they were active members. … Message of…
ArchiveReport of the Information and Propaganda Sub-committee of the General Executive of the Black Sash for the year 1956 to 1957
… Report of the Information and Propaganda Sub-committee of the General Executive of the Black Sash for the year May 1956 to April 1957, … Report of the…