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"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… Nehru? For, the struggle against the inhumanity of apartheid has featured many great men and women, whose … onslaught came not from Nazism but from…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… Winnie Mandela was subjected to intense suffering by the apartheid prison staff through isolation, inhumane … while attending a protest in Johannesburg…
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… liberate the Native people. Political activity around the issues of the work and bread, land and freedom will embarrass …
PlaceFederated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre
… artists in their various forms as well as to resolve legal issues of ownership and distribution. The Centre evolved …
EventCanaan Banana is found guilty of sexual offences
Former Zimbabwean president and minister of the Methodist church, Canaan Banana, was found guilty by the Harare High Court on eleven charges of sodomy,…
EventMalebane-Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by Rocky…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the … and boycotts to undermine the administration of the apartheid government…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… undermines all the fundamental premises upon which apartheid bases its rule. Pretoria continuously seeks to … it has national, indeed, international…
PlaceFramesby, Port Elizabeth
… hospitals are nearby, and the heart of Port Elizabeth’s city is a mere 15 to 20 minutes’ drive away. The trendy malls … the harbour in the South African …
Interview with Oliver Tambo in Luanda after summit meeting of Presidents of frontline states and Southern African Liberation Movements, 01 March 1977
… the indivisibility of the struggle, the identity of the issues except for matters of emphasis. Therefore, there was … regime to continue to protect the…
O. R. Tambo interviewed in Luanda after Summit Meeting of Presidents of Frontline States and Southern African Liberation Movements, 1977
… the indivisibility of the struggle, the identity of the issues except for matters of emphasis. Therefore, there was … regime to continue to protect the…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… of African beer in the townships. He also took up housing issues on behalf of the Brakpan communities. He was expelled … he insisted that the people should…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been … of sanctions would significantly pressurize the apartheid…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… Mkhaba was a fun person who presented serious political issues in an accessible and humorous fashion. It was these … the United States, where he is said to…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… who was dubbed ‘the mother of the nation’ – took the apartheid system head-on, at the huge personal cost. Her life … her endorsement of violence to fight the…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… committee decided to call a public protest meeting on the City Hall steps, Johannesburg, for Saturday morning, the 24th … and myself at the head, the shop…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. During the 1950's, the apartheid government was continually introducing new means to … keep them permanently distinctive in a…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… lower part of the present gardens. A trip to the Mother City would perhaps not be complete without a visit to the Company's Garden in Cape Town city centre…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… Rand had one thing in common —as their first experience of urban life. As described in Where Working People Lived, the … itself. Now lets look at how the…
EventFormer Presidents de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
… rule who abandoned the unsustainable and untenable apartheid system towards a non-racial and democratic South Africa. This meant the release of anti…
ArticleHistory of Photography in South Africa
… three important eras, colonisation, repression and Apartheid and the democratic dispensation. It is against this …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… as well as their southern African co-fighters against apartheid. The ANC, formed in 1912 as the first African … world in a common struggle for peace and…
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… of the harbor and surroundings, more than 52m above the city. A lift has been installed with a harbour viewing window …
PlaceBeau Soleil Music Centre, Salisbury Road, Kenilworth
… Gala performance traditionally held at the Cape Town City Hall. The Beau Soleil Music Centre’s development …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… in such award winning restorations as the East London City Hall, the historic Vergelegen homestead near Somerset …
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… placed to defend the southern entrance into the city, of Pretoria. A paraffin engine generated power at Fort …
PlaceState Theatre, Pretoria
… life of the Nation, the Province of Gauteng and the City of Tshwane. The South African State Theatre seeks to …
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid, which was set up by the General Assembly under … and promote a comprehensive programme of action against…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein
… Africa, and international mobilisation to isolate the apartheid regime. The formation of MK occurred on fertile … pain of families whose loved ones died as…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… Symposium. Today, exactly 40 years ago, the Anti-Apartheid Movement was launched in London at the request of … whom later played catalytic roles in fighting…