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Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… struggle for the destruction of the imperialist supported apartheid system and thus make their own contribution to the … As we receive the Ho Chi Minh…
Statement by Oliver Tambo of acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh award bestowed on the African National Congress by the World Peace Council, 15 December 1986, Luanda
… struggle for the destruction of the imperialist supported apartheid system and thus make their own contribution to the … friends, As we receive the Ho Chi…
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… a sell-out, disappointed that his legacy as an anti-apartheid activist had been tainted by this newfound, … the SABC’s uncomfortable history as complicit…
ArchiveOpening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg
… to see the symbolic significance of this event. Under the apartheid regime it was a common practice for the authorities … that we can recover memories and…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to … regime. His film Place of Weeping is…
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… Ruth First , journalist, academic, anti-apartheid activist and member of the South African Communist … with her husband, Joe Slovo , during the height of…
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… Act, which was used to crush resistance against the Apartheid government Click here for a broader chronology of apartheid legislation. Click here to read a…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid government, which, she said, was working hard to … her husband. Because the Qunta family…
EventDeath of Harry Oppenheimer
… played a crucial role in politics and openly opposed apartheid. In 1998, commenting on apartheid he said: "Disagreeable though it may be, we must …
EventBram Fischer born today
… Abraham (Bram) Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 … (CPSA), openly participating in its…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… as Coloured. La Guma’s father was involved in anti-apartheid activism, a path that he would also follow. La Guma … most of them depicting the plight of black…
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… squatters from three camps. In the 1970s and 80s the Apartheid government embarked on a concerted effort of … had acquired legal status as a place of…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don`t … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don't … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… in the art community that an artistic response to social issues was overdue. The 1971 exhibition marked the first …
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… the San, Khoikhoi and the early African farmers over issues such as cattle drinking too much water or the farmers …
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
… to attract investments, to deal with distortions of the apartheid era, and to work with communities in a partnership … and murder associated with robbery…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… looked to models in the Third World to find a solution to apartheid in South Africa. He was particularly inspired by … Africanist solution, a letter was…
Address at the Commonwealth Business Forum, Johannesburg 9 November 1999
… countries of the North, as we grapple with such critical issues as our international debt burden, a more equitable … possibility exists for us to make…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… the organisation concerned... In the process all relevant issues were fully canvassed in argument. The Court delivered … whether the Constitutional Assembly…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… the remaining bastilles of colonial and racist oppression. Apartheid Aggression However, more than forty years after the successful conclusion of the Second…
EventControversial ‘Black Jesus’ painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… Christ, depicts Luthuli crucified on the cross next to apartheid mastermind Hendrick Verwoed and former Minister of … as Roman Soldiers. The painting not…
EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… composition of the South African team among the anti-Apartheid activists and countries that were opposed to the Apartheid government of South Africa. For…
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… The government prohibited an anti-apartheid conference organised by COSATU in Cape Town, which … aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti…
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Mozambique in Pretoria. The language’s close link with the apartheid government has meant that it has inherited the legacy of being the oppressor’s language…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… Sixty-ers"). The group used literature to speak up against Apartheid and to bring about a European influence to … of Brink and his contemporaries’ books…
EventDr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home
… became involved in politics. He was active in the anti-apartheid movement, especially in the Detainees’ Parents’ … The aim of the committee was to support…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
… police today launched a campaign to fight a spate of urban bombs. There have been about a dozen bomb blasts in …
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi …
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… spearheading the campaign for international action against apartheid and support for our liberation struggle. This role … of inspiration and strength for all…