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PlaceVredenhof Organic Farm, Somerset West
For many year seafarers sought a trade route to link Europe and the East in order to cut out the Arab middlemen who controlled the land routes. Vasco da Gama,…
PlaceBenin
Benin’s political history after colonialism was characterized by an early period of multiparty competition that proved unstable, and multiple interventions by…
Address as Chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement at the Opening of the South Summit, Havana 12 April 2000
Chairperson of the South Summit, President Olusegun Obasanjo, Our esteemed host, President Fidel Castro, Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of…
Address at the Commonwealth Business Forum, Johannesburg 9 November 1999
Chairperson of the Forum, the Rt Hon the Earl Cairns, Vice Chairperson, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Your…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate University of Zululand, 30 May 1998
Mr. Chancellor; Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Members of Council and Senate, Members of the University, Your Majesty, Premier, Distinguished Guests, And…
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Geneva, 19 May 1998
Director-General; Your Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen, Today's auspicious occasion is rich with the ironies of this latter half of the Twentieth…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast meeting of the Foreign Correspondents Association 24 April 1995
Chairperson of the Foreign Correspondents Association; Members of the Association; Distinguished guests. I should start off by apologising for the late…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the South African Chamber of Business Banquet Johannesburg, 30 August 1994
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a pleasure to find myself tonight in the midst of a cheerful gathering. I do realise that I am surrounded by…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
The NCL still remains a small elite group, distinguished by its technical competence and secure organisation, rather than by its size or effectiveness. In the…
Address at the Opening of the 24th General Assembly of the World Veterans Federation, 1 December 2003
Master of Ceremonies, Honourable Ministers, Leaders of the World Veterans Federation, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and gentlemen: On behalf of our…
Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign, Motherwell, 25 November 2004.
Programme Directors, Premier Nosimo Balindlela, Honourable Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Executive Mayor, Nceba Faku, Standard Bank Chief Executive…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
It has been 26 years since the youth of South Africa marched in all parts of the country on a lonely journey for a better education, a transformed South Africa…
Address, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of the World Summit for Sustainable Development Johannesburg, 26 August 2002
Mr Nitin Desai, Secretary-General of the World Summit for Sustainable Development, Your Excellencies Ministers, Ambassadors and Senior Officials, Leaders and…
Address at the UN General Assembly, New York, 12 September 2002
President of the General Assembly, Mr Jan Kavan, Secretary-General of the UN, Mr Kofi Annan, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: I would like to add my…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By 1911, the public outcry in India against the…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The People's Candidates Party participated in…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
Josiah Gumede, 1867-1946: An Historical Assessment"Gumede and John Dube are the pioneers who were the inspiration and foundation upon which the new leaders…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
When South Africa became a Republic, subversive elements intensified their attack on South Africa and her peoples. At this time Adv. Vorster perÂformed a…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 41. WALTER NHLAPO,"He Sang and Soared Away," Barlow's Weekly, 16 August 1947 Walter…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
SOUTH Africa’s mainstream does not debate ideas — it debates people. Which is why the argument about the Mandela legacy is really about where the country is…
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference ABSTRACT FOR PROPOSED CONFERENCE 26-27 JANUARY, 2023: ‘CELEBRATING…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
Queenstown was founded in 1853. It was intended to be a Military Outpost designed to protect the British subjects from attack during the time of the Frontier…
PlaceValdezia Mission Station, Soutpansberg District
Situated in the Soutpansberg District to the south-east of Louis Trichardt is Valdezia Mission Station, an establishment that has come to represent a portion…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
Neville Alexander 25/3/98, Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib Habib: We generally start off with the question of trying to get people’s…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
Analysis of the role of the SACP in formulating the development policies of the ANC: The case of the National Development Plan (NPD) Co-Authors: Lolonga…
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…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
This article was written by Claire Wilt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractInanda Seminary, a private all…