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ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… arrest notice.” [17] The house arrest was set to last five years, and Sonia was even blocked from certain … same group that she had been involved with for…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… there. The teachers locked the door, but the police threw five teargas cylinders in after them. When they didn't open … at another two schools. Police used…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… about a peaceful solution to the political crisis.... Five years ago, President P. W. Botha spoke virtually the … this major step is taken is totally…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
Comrade Chairman, Comrades and friends. This is an important day in the political history of our country. It is a day which should give comfort and hope to…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… in prompting Britain to introduce self-government a mere five year later. Small nations In 2015 the Israeli scholar … that there was a ‘deliberate erosion’…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
CHAIRMAN: I welcome Mr. Oliver Tambo and his friends, Mr. Thabo Mbeki and Mr. Aziz Pahad, and I am glad that they have been able to come... Perhaps I could…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau,…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… resulted in police shooting two students, detaining twenty-five, and arresting 1,500 others. These actions led, in turn, …
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… to participate in the proceedings of the World Economic Forum, we had the privilege to meet South Africans who live … in government, what the trends are in…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… of Mzingaye Biko and Nokuzola Macethe Duna, one of their five children. Mzingaye was for a while a policeman, and he … Primary School when he started…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… are spent on the war machinery to suppress us. More than five million Africans have been rendered stateless. More than …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… are spent on the war machinery to suppress us. More than five million Africans have been rendered stateless. More than …
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… and resources. As you are aware, we are committed to five priorities: education, health, rural development and …
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… he should not be removed. Gumede also claimed that the five Commissioners, who would not be elected by Africans, … will be allowed to buy land when they are…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… the words of the prologue to our Freedom Charter, "these freedoms we will fight for, side by side, throughout our …
OAU-AU 50th Anniversary Lecture by ANC President Jacob Zuma East London, 26 October 2013
Director of the Programme, Vice Chancellor and Principal of the Fort Hare University, Dr Mvuyo Tom, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories.[i] She was also described as a passionate and…
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… on to the straws that have barely kept us afloat through five turbulent decades to arrive at the current political and …
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… a big trading company from the Netherlands. The castle has five corners, like a star. Each corner has a name: Buren, …
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… (1995:275, 278). 11 The joint symposium convened by the Forum Club and the South Africa Club in May 1954 marked a … to the proceedings, the organisers, Enver…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… document cautioned, should not result in defeats later on. Five phases were identified: the establishment of a … with more than 5 per cent of the vote, would…
PlaceChris Hani Municipal Region, Eastern Cape
The Chris Hani municipal region lies at the heart of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the second largest of the Eastern Cape province, district…
President Julius Malema`s address to the KZN Provincial Congress, 22 May 2010
We send you greetings on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League, a militant, fighting organisation of our young people and an…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African children, most of whom had…
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… expansion of the South African labour force. New freedoms - including freedom of movement, access to …
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
Racism in Isolation South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to…
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, distinguished representatives and guests: Permit me first of all, Sir, to express the gratitude of the African National…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The Conference was formally opened in the City Hall, on…