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New Year Message to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 December, 1964
… Nations on many issues affecting our struggle against apartheid. The vigilance and swift reaction of the Special Committee on Apartheid, and its detailed…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by his youthful exuberance, his eloquence, his energy, and, more importantly, his … This particular…
EventJomo Sono, South African soccer player and director, is born
… was born in Orlando East in Soweto. Sono was brought up by his grandparents after his father died and his mother abandoned him. He was forced to work from a…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… include up-to-date information in the various editions of his atlases, becoming the most influential cartographer of … detail, and fine calligraphy””the most…
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… of a centuries-old legacy of colonialism, of racism and apartheid. This I will also say, that the overwhelming … Madame Speaker, I am honoured to convey an…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… to eradicate the legacy of racism, sexism, colonialism and apartheid. This is the central aim that must inform the detailed work done daily by the vanguard…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… as a whole and not, as now appears, only to those who work in apartheid structures. In the light of subsequent Government … that does not want reconciliation…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa, including the Federation of South … participation in protests. In 1957…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… omissions and errors, due to censorship during the apartheid era and other difficulties in collecting … Economic/ support for workers: e xplosion at Anglo…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… of its main purposes was also to coordinate intelligence work as well as to create a foreign espionage capacity. The … the secret death squad was responsible…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… like the Epistles in South Africa," Masekela writes in his 2004 biography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of … one session together before the country's…
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… the emigrant Thembu clan. He was a strong proponent of the Apartheid regime’s Bantu Authorities Act (1951).For his support of the Apartheid government,…
EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… bomb at Lubango, in northern Angola on 28 June 1984. Anti-apartheid activist Marius Schoon (Jeannette's husband) was the target of the bombing because of his…
EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… handed over by the TRC. The documents contained details of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly … a…
”Some Basic Principles of African Nationalism.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in February 1945
… Basis: This can be stated by quoting the words of a famous American writer, Thompson, "The materialistic conception of … needs, desires and aspirations in…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign, 11 June 1988, Wembley Stadium, London
… Trevor Huddleston, Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Esteemed cultural workers and artists, … of a great human being who, for millions of…
Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988
… Trevor Huddleston, Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Esteemed cultural workers and artists, … of a great human being who, for millions…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… which " patriotism and profits " kissed each other. To the work of the Peace Conference in settling the affairs of the … and no troops fought with greater…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… the late 1970s and early 1980s, is that by J. D. Brewer in his After Soweto: An Unfinished Journey (1986). Although, as … of re-kindling internal radical…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… by its implications. There is a trace of despair in his presidential address when he declared that discriminatory legislation would continue to be passed…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of president Rafsanjani of Iran Pretoria, 12 September 1996
… country was still clawing its way out of decades of the apartheid nightmare. Our first ever democratic elections … have made very good progress, thanks in…
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… Scotland on 22 May 1859. Although Doyle is best known for his writing of the Sherlock Holmes crime novel series, he … had graduated from Edinburgh University…
EventLiberia is established
… and instituted a government modelled on that of the US. American-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first …
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… He was also a hardened guerrilla soldier who sacrificed his life at the age of 20, by single-handedly taking on a small army of apartheid soldiers. Anton’s…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… embarrassing attempts to obtain clemency for himself after his arrest in the Defiance Campaign were frequently recalled … 3,1960, goaded the Nationalist…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… born on 14 August 1909 in Cape Town. Penn later moved with his family to Johannesburg, where he attended Parktown High … After marrying Diana Malkin in 1934,…
Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988
… refuse to surrender; the hundreds on hunger strikes inside apartheid`s jails refusing to submit; the hundreds of … for over a quarter of a century, Mandela…
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… refuse to surrender; the hundreds on hunger strikes inside apartheid's jails refusing to submit; the hundreds of … for over a quarter of a century, Mandela…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… soon and we are all still grappling to come to terms with his departure. Juda had respect for everyone, regardless of … Juda, but even before that I knew of…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… has been killed by the only enemy who stands to gain by his death, the apartheid regime of Pretoria and its agents. President Machel … of (word indistinct)…