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The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… it near the grave of John Dube, the first President of the ANC, the African patriot that had helped found the … take shape in his mind. At about this time he…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… Bizos: Most of the people that I have defended were in the ANC camp, and they were strongly of the view - well they took … they almost, well they were rude,…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… African Rugby Union and the African National Congress (ANC) to discuss the future trajectory of the sport. After … by the apartheid regime for his…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Convention. 15 August, Several pamphlet bombs, scattering ANC pamphlets, explode in a number of cities. 19 August, The … co-operation. 10 August, Eleven…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
ArticleXhosa
… elected president was African National Congress (ANC) leader, Nelson Mandela , who is a Xhosa-speaking member …
Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989
… I am honoured today, on behalf of the leadership of the ANC, inside and outside our country, on behalf of its entire … in terms of its timing. Taking place…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… If F. W. de Klerk finally accepts the positions the ANC and the masses of our people have upheld for decades by … you, the people of our country, and your…
Address by President Zuma on the occasion of his Inauguration as fourth President of South Africa
… Thank you Zizi for demonstrating a character that the ANC had always embodied since 1912. Your Excellencies, ladies … done. More than 11,6 million South…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate University of Zululand, 30 May 1998
… for peace. This applies in particular to the ANC and the IFP. The challenge to make peace among us has … spur us on to further consolidate our peace efforts…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… to reside (South African Institute for Race Relations, 1952: 32). The GAA displaced hundreds of thousands of people; …
Appeal by Oliver Tambo to the people of the world on the 75th anniversary of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987
… us see the entire peace-loving humanity rally behind the ANC and the rest of the democratic movement of our country. …
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
Urging Congress branches to ensure 100 per cent attendance at the forthcoming A.N.C. National Conference, due to begin at Durban on December 16, President…
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… T Plaatje – the founder of the African National Congress (ANC). The Curator of the Museum also holds the keys to …
Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 September 1930
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… M. Jnr. (1962). “Appeal for Action Against Apartheid” (www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/1960s/pr621210.html) (Accessed 3 March …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… At the time, it was the guiding political document for the ANC and allied organisations. Island ”” used like this the …
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… is occurring in the people's mood in South Africa. The ANC now has to put all its weight into maintaining the … as an absolute necessity at the present stage…
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
… women as full members into the African National Congress (ANC) in 1943, Kuzwayo’s beginning in political movements was … followed by the birth of the Women’s…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… Africa because he was a rather prominent member of the ANC, which even by the 1970s was considered to be a terrorist … football team – was among several…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… public order or safety. The African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress and their elected … men’s shirts, sometimes washing. At Kroonstad they…
Articlehoz tab example
… affiliate of the UDF. In 1990 Badsha was made head of the ANC’s Western Cape branch, spearheading the formation of FOSACO and participating in the…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 28 - Brian Bunting, "Problems of the Multi…
Chapter 14
New efforts at disruption The farcical elections were over. Most of the old M.R.C.s had been returned to the dummy council, but were more than ever in a state…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… of Christian holidays is important. However, the ANC government has failed to declare a single public holiday …
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… man`s law was stimulated by the great Defiance Campaign of 1952. The response of the State towards the Congress of the … workers of the Western Cope to the…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… understanding our past it is necessary to know that the ANC in its exile years in its camps in Africa was faced with … massive infiltration by the apartheid…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… to start with. The early talks about talks between the ANC and the NP government were generally carried out by those … NP for wanting to hold on to power for…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders, 23 February 2010, Old Assembly, Parliament, Cape Town
… In a statement he issued after he was deposed as Chief in 1952, he said: "My view has been, and still is, that a chief …
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… Irvine at the Friends International Centre in London. In 1952 he was to meet two people who would have a great impact …