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ADDRESS AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 24TH REGULAR MEETING OF THE CARICOM CONFERENCE, Montego Bay, Jamaica, 2 July 2003
… Commissioners, Delegates and friends: On behalf of the African Union and your brothers and sisters in Africa, I … system of apartheid, a system that was an…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… that yielded the liberation of the non-White South African population. Someone that has heard of Nelson Mandela … pandemic of 1918 and later got acquainted…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… abandonment of the policy of white domination. The African National Congress will not rest before this challenge … then moderation and reason must take…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… Hitler's Aryan vision. Owens on the other hand was an African America, one of ten in the US team. Lang and Owens … others being in the 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… called for a convention of Africans to form the South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation was renamed the African National Congress …
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… 1950s, members of FCWU played a leading role in the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) In April 1954, Ray … and Florence Mkhize helped found the…
Post NEC & Lekgotla Briefing, 30 January 2017
… The African National Congress invites members of the media to a … House, 54 Pixley Seme Street, Johannesburg Issued by the African National Congress…
Umsebenzi
… Umsebenzi, mouthpiece of the South African Communist Party, deals with issues relating to the … Socialism are also discussed. Profiles of prominent South…
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1953-1954
… relations; Events ouside the Union with bearing on South African affairs; General South African affairs; Matters affecting specific groups; Urban … South…
EventSecurity police raid offices of the United Democratic Front
… It filled a void created when organisations such as the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventZimbabwe’s interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… Zimbabwe. This triggered bitter fighting between Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) supporters in the … region of the country and the ruling Zimbabwe…
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
… liberation organisation supported by groups such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist … Congress (PAC) and the Rhodesians by the…
EventCosatu offices in Durban under attack
… into central Pietermaritzburg when the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) offices in the town were … in KwaZulu-Natal; and their alleged links…
EventLord Milner leaves England to return to SA
… who played a prominent role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become British … was to negotiate a peace treaty that ended the…
EventNatal Indian Congress is formed
… the Cape Indian Congress later went on to form the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Thereafter, many joint activities between the SAIC and African…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… objectivity and with an understandable emphasis on the African viewpoint and interpretation of political events in … and a delaying tactic. This was the view…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… our women, instead of lightening the chains tying down the African —the Colour Bar Laws, the Pass Laws and the Poll … what can be termed a declaration of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 88th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2000
… South Africans: Today we mark the 88th anniversary of the African National Congress. We celebrate our anniversary … we must, through our own efforts, make…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African government’s response to the AIDS epidemic. Access to … strong support for HIV being the…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… College in Grahamstown.[iii] He became the first South African to win a full set of Olympic medals, for which he … (20 April 2017). ↵ [iv] David van Lill,…
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… On 22 November 1979 South African prime minister P. W. Botha gathered business leaders … announced his plan to launch the Constellation of Southern African…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… into South Africa. The protest was led by several senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders, including South African Communist Party Secretary General…
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… intellectuals, to meet with the then-banned African National Congress (ANC) in Dakar, Senegal. Delegates … meeting is regarded as a milestone in South…
EventExplorer and navigator Vasco da Gama completes his voyage round the Cape of Good Hope to India
… had turned back after making landfall on the southern African coast, Da Gama and his crew sailed further along the east African shoreline. They were the…
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
… Former South African president Nelson Mandela's 88th birthday celebrations … of the foundation's board. The photo exhibition by South African veterans Alf…
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
… was subjected to anti colonial struggles led by Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). By 1977 ZANU’s military…
Briefing on Lekgotla outcomes, 27 January 2015
… The African National Congress invites members of the media to a … media cards Issued by Zizi Kodwa National Spokesperson African National Congress Enquiries…
Sechaba
… The African National Congress began publication of Sechaba in … injustice. Sechaba documents the process by which the African National Congress, banned in…
EventJames Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, dies in Tsolo, Transkei
… James Ranisi Jolobe made a contribution to South African arts and culture through poetry. Born in Transkei, … Verwey, E.J. (ed) (1995). New Dictionary of…
EventBritish labour conditions in South Africa condemned
… of the 141 British companies investigated have been paying African workers below the relevant poverty line. New British … operating in South Africa; British…