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Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… UDF supporters often killed traitors and collaborators. One particularly horrible method of murder was necklacing, …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… onto the UDF, and was particularly evident in rural areas. One reason for the escalation in violence was the increasing …
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… cited the arming of Blacks on the side of the British as one of the major reasons for discontinuing the war. Reasons …
PlaceVersfeld Pass
… Passes in close proximity to each other. The original one lies slightly to the north-east of the current one and its path can still be seen, but it is no…
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
… in 1916 to fight on the side of the Allies in World War One. The corps was made up of coloured members of the … than 12 000 South African servicemen fought…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… African Women and the marches on Pretoria in 1955 and 1956 One hundred and forty-six delegates, representing 230,000 … of the small African professional…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… delegates to the conference became occupied with primarily one concern, that is, whether Arabic or Urdu should enjoy … of instruction is of paramount…
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
… their mission. Today, all of us are confronted with only one colonial and settler regime to vanquish, the racist … system is now. The fact that our meeting…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
… focused on youth development. This was deliberate. Around one-third of all South Africans are under the age of 15. Half … reaches over 6 million primary…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… result of apartheid repression and aggression. Yesterday, one of our daily newspapers, the Johannesburg Star , carried … Africa’s relatively smooth and…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… was the first chairman of the society. Mufti Haswari was one of the early imams of the Queen Street Masjid [Pretoria], … 'groups' are as follows: four …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… the ANC. The competing rise in apartheid violence on the one hand and the militancy of the masses on the other was … the fighting people of South Africa and…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… the ANC. The competing rise in apartheid violence on the one hand and the militancy of the masses on the other was … the fighting people of South Africa and…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… exactly what happened. The murder file I was handed became one of the biggest landmark cases in the appalling history of … action. If a murder or other…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… needed to achieve this goal.” It went on to say that one of the elements of its Medium Term Strategy is “a social … questions arise in this regard. (xix)…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… and also in favour of labour unity and militancy and one Trade Union centre, as against the estranging and … also for its present programme as the only…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… era, whose form and content is different from the previous one. A evolutionary era that was defined by the struggle … that are central to the regeneration of…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… liking and close comradeship. In a wider sense, this one word brings out much more. It encapsulates the foundation … and a non-racial, non-sexist, democratic…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… on Culture in Another South Africa' (23 December 1987). One Step Further Various cultural workers could not alas be … were summed up in a number of…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… indeed ‘ALL SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS ARE NATIVE AFFAIRS’. One of the tragic aspects of the political situation in our … affairs has resulted from a number of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… between the European inhabitants of the Union on the one hand and any other section of the inhabitants of the … Indian Congress (TIC) holds a mass meeting,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
… this connection, allow me Comrade Chairman, to recall that one year ago to the day (from 1 to 4 December), Tanzania`s … of those eligible by age to vote was…
Statement, on Behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the Closing Session of the Seventh Summit Meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States, Arusha by O. R. Tambo, 1 - 2 December 1988
… this connection, allow me Comrade Chairman, to recall that one year ago to the day (from 1 to 4 December), Tanzania's … of those eligible by age to vote was…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… When the lights of liberty were being extinguished one by one, this movement of the African and Indian Congresses … participated in the campaign during…
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… representatives from almost every country in Asia, and one and all assured us of their keen interest and active … on the refuted Nazi ideology. We can thus…
Increase Assistance to Liberation Movements - Statement at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa by O. R. Tambo, Oslo, 11 April 1973
… but there is a greater need to recognise that it is one struggle, against one enemy. In supporting the statement that has just been put … posed the situation…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… in the southern cone of Africa. He has turned out to be one of the greatest strategists of our continent. Both in his … community who have been our…
Address to the SANC Local Government Conference, 30 July 1999 Johannesburg
… and E.E. Evans-Pritchard, two main types were identified: One group, which we refer to as Group A, consists of those … of us who have come to this task later…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 89 "People's Front … a Utopia, but you must consider the…
Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
… racists who came from foreign parts with the Bible in the one hand and the gun in the other, in the name of the … fear us because we represent the future…