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ArchiveStatement of the United Democratic Front General Secretary to the Annual General Meeting of the South African Health Workers Congress
Statement of the United Democratic Front General Secretary to the Annual General Meeting of the South African Health Workers Congress held on 1st July in…
Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers
Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers, created by Jan Gerritze Bantjes, late…
ArchiveLetter from H A Combrinck, Germiston Area Director of the East Rand Administration Board to the Assistant Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
Letter from the East Rand Administration Board to the Ciskei Commission supplying population statistics of the Xhosa people residing on the East Rand for the…
ArchiveLetter from R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, to the Honourable Alexander M Haig Jr, Secretary of State, Washington DC
Letter from Pik Botha to Alexander Haig regarding the independence of Namibia in the context of international relations, stabilisation of the southern African…
ArchiveLetter from the Town Clerk of the City of Grahamstown to the Secretary of the National Council of African Women
Letter from the Town Clerk of the City of Grahamstown addressed to the Secretary of the National Council of African Women discussing the reasons behind the…
EventA resolution calling for Africans countrywide to stay at home, in protest against the Unlawful Organisations Act, is taken in Durban
Africans made a unanimous resolution for a “National Day of Mourning and Protest” on which Africans countrywide would be ordered to stay at home. The…
ArchiveStatement by a representative of South Africa's workers to the Conference: People of the World Against Apartheid for a Democratic South Africa
Statement by a representative of South Africa's workers to the Conference: People of the World Against Apartheid for a Democratic South Africa, marking the…
ArchiveMemorandum to the Government of Swaziland on the agreement between Swaziland and the Pretoria regime on Ka-Ngwane and Ngwavuma
ANC National Executive Committee memorandum to the Swaziland government on the agreement between Swaziland and the Pretoria regime on Ka-Ngwane and Ngwavuma…
Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide
Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 June in order to coincide with Republic Day. Nobody is…
Dingane orders his forces to wipe out remaining parties of Voortrekkers after the murder of Piet Retief and his companions
Dingane orders his forces to wipe out remaining parties of Voortrekkers after the murder of Piet Retief and his companions. The two Voortrekker parties at…
BiographyIndres Naidoo
Indrasena (Indres) Elatchininathan Naidoo worked as a clerk and became the main support of the family after the death of his father Narainsamy Thambi Naidoo, a…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
1 December 2010 President of COSATU; General-Secretary of COSATU and other national officer bearers; Presidents and Leaders of Affiliated Unions; …
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
Comrade Chairman, Comrades and friends. This is an important day in the political history of our country. It is a day which should give comfort and hope to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
It surely must be one of the great ironies of our age that this August Assembly is addressed, for the first time in its 49 years, by a South African head of…
Letter from Oliver Tambo to Sir Geoffrey Howe, United Kingdom Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, 21 July 1986
H.E. Sir Geoffrey Howe Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs London. Sir Geoffrey, I am most grateful for your kind letter of 18 July…
Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 10 years of Democracy In South Africa Monday 10 May 2004, Cape Town
Madam SpeakerChairperson of the National Council of Provinces Deputy Speaker Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP Mister President Deputy President Members of the…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
My President, Comrade Thabo Mbeki; My leaders: the Officials, members of the NEC, PEC's, and BEC's; Colleagues and comrades; Dear Guests. The time has come…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, “What are the National Groups in South Africa? A Contribution to the Symposium”, Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, "What are the National…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
In this Freedom Day address Lutuli introduces the campaign to make ordinary black people more aware of their political situation. Lutuli attempts to bridge the…
BiographyChris Hani
Thembisile Chris Hani was born in the rural village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the fifth of the six children of…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms. They are fighting against the forces…
Document 63 - Letter from Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 11 April 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew THE WORKERS PARTY OF SOUTH AFRICA P.O. Box 1940 Cape…
Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983
The African National Congress, the broad democratic movement and the people of South Africa as a whole, will be observing 1984 as the Year of the Women. We…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Special Sitting of the Senate of the Republic of Chile: Valparaiso, June 8, 2005
Mr. President of the Senate, Mr President of the Chamber of Deputies, Honourable Members of the National Congress Ladies and Gentlemen: The geographers have…
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
On 21 May 1991 the medical adviser to the government, Dr Wilson Carswell made the shocking announcement that 100 000 South Africans are infected with the Human…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, later to…
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
Hermanus Gabriel Loots, also known as James Stuart, is most noted for his role in exposing brutality at African National Congress camps in 1984, which…
BiographyRichard Msimang
Richard Msimang was the son of Joel Msimang, founder of the Independent Methodist Church of South Africa. He was among the first pupils of the Ohlange…
BiographyPhila Portia Ndwandwe
Phila Portia Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya…