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Address by President Nelson Mandela at the snap debate on the Shell House incident National Assembly, Cape Town, 7 June 1995
Madame Speaker; Deputy-Presidents; Ministers and Honourable members. It is not often that this August assembly debates an issue at such a level. It is…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy being…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
Chairperson and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Professor S Jayakumar, Members of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies…
Indian education in Natal
1865 A report? Native Schools 1865? states that these were day and evening schools.Á‚ There was a Mr Earl?s school on the Isipingo plantation which was…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with the South African Political…
Address by President, Nelson R. Mandela, at the funeral of Martin Chris Hani FNB Stadium, Soweto, 19 April 1993
Comrade Chairpersons, To the family, Our daughter-in-law, Limpho, and grandchildren Neo, Nomakwezi and Lindiwe, Gilbert and Mary Hani, parents of Chris,…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Exiles who sought political asylum from the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them should, as rebels, lay down their lives to affirm the very humanity of the oppressed…
Tell no Lies, Claim no easy Victories by Thabo Mbeki, 4 April 2016
Last year on December 15, Max Boqwana, the CEO of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation (TMF), posted a Notice on this Facebook Page that starting in January this year,…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
Document 23 26 June 1992 Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the established of a 'democratic South…
PlaceClairwood Hospital, Durban
Clairwood Hospital, a public hospital operated by the KwaZulu Natal Health Department, is situated in Durban South, KwaZulu Natal. Hospital services include a…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1]performances of the likes of the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
The African National Congress invites friends and supporters of our liberation struggle to join with the South African people in commemorating the 70th…
In the enduring spirit of President O.R. Tambo: Good luck to all matriculants, 22 October 2012
Undeniably a matric certificate in South Africa symbolises aspirations of posterity while it represents a gateway to the dignity of getting further training…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
Inside a dilapidated warehouse, underneath scattered clothes hanging from rusty pipes, a young black man is down on his knees. His feet are naked, his trousers…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic education made this…
PlaceRobertson Division
The Division of Robertson was originally part of the district of Tulbagh, whose drostdy was transferred to Worcester in July 1822. It was proclaimed a separate…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
The Dutch Reformed Church, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. The site where the first church was built…
PlaceEthiopia
Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia, to the East. Sudan to the West, South…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
It is indeed a very special honour to receive not one Honorary Doctorate but two, and not from one prestigious institution of learning but two! I will…
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure—so believed Albert Luthuli, president of the African National Congress from 1952-1968…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Conference of the Association of African Universities: Cape Town, 22 February 2005.
President of the AAU, Professor Lamine Ndiaye, Vice President of the AAU, Dr. Dorothy Njeuma, Secretary-General of the AAU, Professor Akilagpa Sawyerr, The…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
PREFACE In the following pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point of View." This…
The melody of freedom
A reflection on music Riot policeman Erasmus shot seventeen-year-old Mngcini 'Big Boy' Mginywa from Grahamstown at a funeral because, he told the judge, the…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I remember well that first meeting with the redoubtable Solly Sachs, when I flew to Johannesburg for the interview…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serious study of such a struggle. Firstly,…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrahams died at 97 in Jamaica, where he has…
Address at the Dinner in honour of South African Olympians and Paralympians: Bryntirion Estate, Tshwane: 11 December 2004
Master of Ceremonies, Honourable Deputy President Jacob Zuma, Honourable Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Honourable Premiers, Your Worship, Mayor of Tshwane…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
Within twenty-four hours of adoption, the executive director of the Constitutional Assembly began receiving calls from the Constitutional Court enquiring how…