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75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… to the League of Nations. As from 1952 the application of apartheid and the practice of racial discrimination was … in South Africa in July 1960, was obliged…
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… author of ten novels and more than 200 short stories; her work over the past forty years has insistently and … focused upon the legacies and moral…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… in 1904. It was on this Settlement that Gandhi started his journey of transforming from a successful Lawyer to a … and spirituality. Here on this land Gandhi…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… Herold Macmillan; it was seven days after he made his famous speech "Winds of Change In Africa" in Cape Town. In the letter he was sending his gratitude to…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… Badsha has also documented and archived history through his photography, the co-founding of the non-racial Afrapix … on funding. Some money has been moved to…
Cable to the United Nations, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 25, 1948
… Council Europeans and Africans that "Natives" would accept apartheid if it was total segregation. This was apropos … and meant to show that Africans like…
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…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… Town, Eastern Cape. Biko’s unshaken stance against apartheid inspired the hope of freedom among millions in … detained several times by the apartheid…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… and to other African countries including South Africa. His commitment to the liberation of Africa from White … African leaders in denouncing the racist…
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…
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…
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…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… some of the reasons why you should BOYCOTT this fraud of apartheid and to help in your own political enslavement. YOU … means to accept political inferiority…
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…
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…
”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…
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…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… to report frequently to the SA Police in the area. After his part in leading the 1952 Defiance Campaign, a non-violent, national, anti- pass protest, the…
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…
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…
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…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… of nationalism. For a very long time the native devotes his energies to ending certain definite abuses: forced … keep before us the unfortunate example of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…