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Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 10 Feb…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
I must admit at the outset that when we first met in this hall six years ago, we and our people, who looked spell-bound at Convention, were full of great…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 88th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2000
Fellow South Africans: Today we mark the 88th anniversary of the African National Congress. We celebrate our anniversary during a year that is being…
Chapter 5: The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
5.1 The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence It would be an oversight to discuss vigilantes and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
1856-1910 Masters and Servants Acts of 1856 These Acts, which had been passed between 1856 and 1904 in the four territories, remained in force after…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
As amended and adopted at the 5th National Conference - July 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preamble Rules Rule 1 Name Rule 2 Aims and Objectives Rule 3…
Archive2007 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2007
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 9 February 2007 Madam Speaker of the National…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
"The danger begins only when they make a virtue of necessity and want to freeze into a complete theoretical system all the tactics forced upon them by these…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
Albie Sachs SA Constitutional Court Judge interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane Johannesburg, Constitutional Court, 24 March 1998 Taylor: The…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
1. Introduction Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
Programme Director, Esteemed Members of the Luthuli Museum Council, Comrades, ladies and gentlemen: First of all, I thank the Council of the Luthuli…
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, We have already had the honour and privilege of addressing this historic assembly of Heads of…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of the Rivonia offensive, coupled with the 90-day detention…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948 The African National Congress (ANC) arose…
ArticleSita’s story
My Childhood at Phoenix Settlement I was born on 19th of October 1928 on my grandfather’s farm, which was fifteen miles away from the city, and in those days…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
Introduction Reflecting on her past years of imprisonment in 2012, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela stated “I think you can stand imprisonment of 27…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 11 February 2010 …
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION In May 1906 smoking habits amongst the ladies…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
Main catalogue Books 1. ASVAT, Farouk, 1952- EXILES within : an anthology of poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. :…
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…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The era of destabilisation entered its third year in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
During the 1990s, behind-the-scenes negotiations between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
1806 Sir John Barrow indicates on a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity of either the Witwatersrand or the Magaliesberge. 1852 Gold…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
IntroductionThe 16 June 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa. Events that…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Social Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
Report on Commissions 1. The two commissions received an input on major issues for discussion. The input took for granted that the discussion document that…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
The Lowveld Massacre We would like to thank the leadership of the Province, the Region as well as the Branches for allowing us to address a lecture on the 25…