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‘In the belly of the beast’, Speech at Conference of the International Committee against apartheid, racism and colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA), Stockholm, 1 April 1980
Speech by President Mandela at the Official Banquet at the Twelfth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-aligned Countries Durban 2 September 1998
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Geneva, 19 May 1998
Director-General; Your Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen, Today's auspicious occasion is rich with the ironies of this latter half of the Twentieth…
UDF Poster ‘NO apartheid war: GUGULETHU LANGA TROOPS OUT OF THE TOWNSHIPS’ by End Conscription Campaign (ECC), 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
UDF Poster ‘We demand: End to High Prices SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT’ by Community Arts Project (CAP), 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
UDF Poster ‘HOW LONG MUST WE KEEP ON DYING IN THIS WAY ?’ by Screen Training Project (STP), 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
The Ncome Museum is opened at the site of the Battle of Blood River in 1838. The project was started on 16 December 1998 when t
BiographyJoshua Makue
Born in 1909 Makue was a teacher and tailor. He joined the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union after being refused enrolment as an engineering student at…
BiographyBalelekeng Sam Masemola
Born in 1926, Masemola worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1949 and helped to steer his branch in Alexandra Township away from …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
Forced removals refer to the moving of people from their homes against their will. This may not always involve physical threat or force, but sometimes coercion…
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
Early Years and Politicisation Mohamed Ismail (‘Issy’) Dinat was born on 14 October 1937 in Krugersdorp. As a child, Dinat would often attend meetings with…
BiographySamora Machel
Samora Machel was born in 1933 and was raised in the village of Chilembene. He was a member of the Shangana ethnic group and his parents were poor. Machel…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… by Horace Campbell that appeared inMonthly Review in April 1989, with some pride at having published so sharp an …
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
We bring to the distinguished participants of this conference greetings of the African National Congress and those of our membership as a whole. We cannot omit…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
Legal instruments through legislation, resolutions, proclamations and ordinances played a key role in legitimizing systematic land dispossession and…
EventSally Little, South African golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top
Sally Little, South African golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top-50 all-time players and teachers, was born in Cape Town on 12 October 1951. By the…
BiographyJohn Mtini
Born in 1887, John Mtini was the 'Grand Old Man' of the trial who took part in the 1929 anti-pass campaigns, the struggles of the unemployed of 1931-2, the…
BiographyBertram Buxton Xiniwe
Bertram Buxton Xiniwe was born in Middledrift in the Cape, the son of Paul Xiniwe, who subsequently became a well-known hotel operator in King William's Town…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… agreeing to end South African aid to rebels in Mozambique 1989 Ban on political activity lifted in Nigeria; two …
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
My concerns in this chapter are two-fold. The first is to sketch the formation of SANSCO in late 1979. The second is to analyse SANSCO's ideology and politics…
Pretoria the Segregated city
Contents Pretoria the Segregated city The Tomlinson Report Atteridgeville and Saulsville Hammanskraal Mamelodi Mabopane Laudium Eersterus …
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Bomb damage runs into millions, Natal Witness, 23 May 1983
Document 141 “Apartheid Spells Disaster”, Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party’s National Conference, Johannesburg,6 to 8 January 1950,2y Freedom, New Series 15 December, 1949
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 141 "Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of…
The government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) to carry out its activities. The date is given as 24 August 198
… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South …
BiographyKuben Naidoo
When Prema Naidoo and others were detained in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, Kuben Naidoo, holding up a banner…
BiographyPeter Kaya Selepe
One of the first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961, Selepe was born in 1919 and served in the South African army in World War II, attaining the…
BiographyMceleli Bongwefile Buthelezi
Especially interesting in the light of the role that Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi came to play in Bantustan and national politics was the banishment of Mceleli…
BiographyW Mati
Born in 1923, Mati worked as a clerk. He joined the African National Congress in 1946. He was active in the 1949 bus boycott in Port Elizabeth. Mati served…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… murder and given the death penalty for murder on 25 May 1989. He showed no remorse during his trial and maintained …
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…