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Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
Sons and Daughters of Afrika! The Pan Africanist Congress was successfully launched as the liberation movement of the African people at a Convention held at…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
Programme Directors, Tumi Makgabo and Marcus Ziegler, Your Excellency, President of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter, Your Excellency, UN Secretary General, Kofi…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
[NOTE: In this statement at a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the …
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
It has been 26 years since the youth of South Africa marched in all parts of the country on a lonely journey for a better education, a transformed South Africa…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
April 6: People's Protest Day The African National Congress has served notice on the Government that the Non-European people can no longer go on tolerating …
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
[THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF SECTION 3 OF THE ABOVE PUBLICATION, CONCERNING LOUIS VAN BENGALE - NOT A PROFESSIONAL TRANSLATION] THE FIRST FREE BLACKS OF…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
The United Nations referred to apartheid as “a crime against humanity” (United Nations, edited 2018). In 1956, Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican priest, wrote the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 94th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2006
Compatriots: On the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress, our movement salutes the people of South Africa and…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
On 25 November 1966 Linda Givon (then Goodman) opened the Goodman Gallery in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. The Goodman Gallery has been instrumental to the…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
Fellow South Africans, Today, August 9th is National Women's Day. On this day, as a nation, we re-commit ourselves to the advancement of women at all levels of…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
In sharp contrast to Graca Machel and his feisty second wife Winnie, Mandela's first wife was a demure country girl who kept well away from politics. Like him…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Nationalist Government attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing industry, which contained the award of the…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
It is important to remember that the early Gandhi had little contact with Africans and did not understand their sensitivities. The recent agitation at the…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important throughout apartheid. The South African government needed to rely on the external…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
1884 Otto von Bismarck chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia are recognized as independent…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
1884 Otto von Bismarck chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia are recognized as independent…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
When the story of the founding of the Congress Youth League (CYL) — the forerunner of the ANC Youth League — is told, usually it is only Anton Lembede, AP Mda…
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…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign — A Resume of the…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, USA, May 4 2015 Nelson Mandela and the last…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
1904 6 January, The settler Frau Sonnenberg tells German soldiers stationed at the Waterberg, including the Sergeant in charge, Sergeant Rademacher, that…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31 August and climbed…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
ArticleSummary: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
The Mali Empire (c. 1235-1600 CE)At its height, the Mali Empire stretched across more than 1.29 million square kilometres of West Africa, encompassing the…
Oration by the ANC Gauteng Chairperson Paul Mashatile at the funeral service of the late Ephraim Motlalepula Nkoe, 11 May 2013, Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto
Thank You Programme Director, Provincial Secretary Comrade David Makhura Lelapa laha Nkoe Mme le bana ba Comrade Ephraim Nkoe Friends of Comrade Ephraim, in…
Address by Mashatile on the occasion of the 20th commemoration of the Bisho massacre, 7 September, 2012
Programme Director, MEC Mlibo Qhoboshiyane Premier of the Eastern Cape Province, Premier Noxolo Kiviet The Chairperson of the ANC in the Eastern Cape…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party, an Afrikaner political party that supported increased racial segregation and apartheid…