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EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work and an end to discrimination on the job. Since 1917 the … in industrially developing…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… This Conference, organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, is of tremendous importance to the … for the victory of the neo-colonial forces. Smith and…
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… strongman, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo and the die-hards of the apartheid regime. Twenty-eight people were mowed down in a … Mangosutho Buthelezi strenuously denied…
Press Statement concerning the Five-Year Plan presented by F.W. De Klerk to the National Party Conference by O. R. Tambo, 30 June 1989
… fold their arms and sit back for half a decade while apartheid is given a change of clothes would be laughable … Behind this are two basic principles that de…
Press Statement by Oliver Tambo concerning the five-year plan presented by FW De Klerk to the National Party Conference, 30 June 1989
… fold their arms and sit back for half a decade while apartheid is given a change of clothes would be laughable … Behind this are two basic principles that de…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress. Wilhelm Verwoerd risked being alienated by his family and…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… to destroy the power of the chief as military leader of his people. The breakdown of tribalism meant first the … Rhenish and Berlin missions, the French and,…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
… about. Some of us, fearing that he might be manoeuvred by his host, the Union Government, to act and speak in support of apartheid, advised him that…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… March Ace Magashule, Free State Province Premier, delivers his State of the Province address at the University of the … It reveals that between the first and…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… of hundreds of thousands of honest members of the ANC who work everyday to advance the cause of all the people of our … discharge their responsibilities at…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… full opportunities to realise the best potentialities in his nature and enjoying a fair share of the material … the A.P.O agree to any measure that robbed…
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … Africa. He has proceeded to appoint various…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … Africa. He has proceeded to appoint various…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… to oppression was free at last, and curiosity as his photographs had been banned by the South African … could no longer strictly adhere to nonviolence as the…
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… by the Public Orator. Nonetheless, I enjoyed hearing his erudite, eloquent, and generous citation. Chancellor, I … appearances. It tries to discover the…
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… destroyed by the first atomic bombs used in warfare. The American government justified the use of the bombs by saying …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… in various mining companies, one of which is Anglo American. …
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… with Mzilikazi are contradictory. Paul Kruger , in his memoirs, describes how the Boers had crossed the Vaal … had crossed the Crocodile River. Kruger also…
PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… of the chair of Fine Art in 1920. In addition to his patronage of the oldest Fine Art Department in South … space affiliated with the university showing the…
PlaceRobben Island, Cape Town
… elected president – Nelson Mandela – spent 18 years of his 27 years in prison on Robben Island. Easily the most … Motlanthe and Jacob Zuma also spent time…
EventCelebrated South African photographer, David Goldblatt, receives Hasselblad honours
… African photographer, David Goldblatt was honoured for his portrayal of social and political life in the country of his birth. David Goldblatt received the…
EventJohannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg
… Rapport. He was later fired from the newspaper because of his political activism. Kerkorrel’s music was overtly critical of the apartheid government and, as…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary … separate chambers, a supposed reform and improvement…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… treated and we told them. I then asked Bram about Molly, his wife. No sooner had I pronounced Molly's name than Bram … end of 1956 to the beginning of 1961…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… Angolans under Portuguese colonial rule, warning that the apartheid state was equally brutally oppressive. According to … warned that a “whites only”…
EventNiel van der Watt, SA composer is born
… Pretoria, Niel van der Walt is a composer well known for his choral compositions. He comes from a family of teachers. He obtained his high School education…
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… Holland where he would earn a doctorate in ethics. Upon his return to South Africa shortly after the 1976 Soweto uprisings, he increased his anti-Apartheid…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… vilification against us. But because of the determined work of our members, the work of your Congress has thus far … Credit must go to the National Organiser…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) , for 17 years, noted in his autobiography that he and a number of other young people … the impression that a vast underground…
EventSenator Robert Kennedy visits SA
… In June 1966, during the darkest years of Apartheid, United States (US) Senator Robert Kennedy made a … National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), an…