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EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in South Africa. Though the apartheid government restricted his … "a recognition of the sacrifices made by…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… games staged in Barcelona, Spain in 1994. This was South Africa's first participation after a long ban by the … the South African team was composed of…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… Perturbed by the general trend of events in South Africa subsequent to the UNO decision, the Natal Indian … respect with the rest of the Commonwealth. To…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… to break the power of the Congress Alliance once and for all, since the previous bannings and banishments had not … the prosecution, the Charter visualised…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… the greatest thinkers in the liberation pantheon of South Africa: Steve Biko. He was too much of a threat to the rotten … its power lay. It restored pride,…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 14 … that the memory of these heroes will…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… Suffice it to say that after a prolonged period all the accused were fully acquitted. The campaign for the … the different components of the liberation…
PlaceMadikwa Game Reserve, North West
… Withaak on the slopes of Abjaterskop Mountain. But that’s all changed and today there are plenty of leopards in the … on the Western Border of North-West…
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… century, it was only after the 1860s that southern Africa had a relatively large Indian population. In Natal of … owners, a term in prison or deportation to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… the SASOL attack, when Umkhonto we Sizwe set racist South Africa ablaze - all these events have each a singularly unifying quality, and … call to the entire…
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… the SASOL attack, when Umkhonto we Sizwe set racist South Africa ablaze - all these events have each a singularly unifying quality, and … call to the entire…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… to create jobs, end poverty and build a better life for all, we must act with greater determination. Only by working … together, can we strengthen democracy…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to … the leadership of Kenneth Mopeli until 1994 when…
EventNelson Mandela is arrested
… town near Howick, Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
EventFormer National Public Prosecutor Bulelani Ngcuka is born
… political activist and a lawyer. In 1998 he became South Africa's first National Director of Public Prosecutions. After his appointment he resigned from all…
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… the TRC Distinguished Guests Fellow South Africans South Africa is no longer the country it was when we adopted the … are engaged in a truly national process…
ArchiveApartheids friends and allies
… Campaign for a complete boycott of all trade with South Africa. Black, white and red poster. Various photographs. …
ArchiveA call for Unity
… A call for Unity by the Unity Movement of South Africa. Calls for all South African liberation movements to present a united …
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… mean little to some of us, but it is the deep feeling of all of us that we should not be tried here in Pretoria. You, … as if you were our masters. We have…
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… of an initiation group. We'd got used to not hearing all sorts of things through the tension. This group was … and neighbours know that the boys have reached…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida, 29 March 1986, Maputo
… today to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a revolutionary. We … did. In simple language he could…
Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
… to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a revolutionary. … In simple language he could convey…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
… Israel: The Politics of an Analogy , twenty scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and … act of cowardice of the last half-century…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… Democratic Republic, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and all Officials and members of the National Executive … of the leagues and alliance partners,…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… with these nationalist parties, but should under all circumstances unconditionally maintain the independence … In his 1921 report to the Comintern on…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… set shoulders to the wheel in building a better life for all. I feel truly humbled to officially open the National … the journey to where we are today has…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… own self-government, but the economic structure of South Africa made that impossible (Marquard, 1969: 256). During the … declared a group area, the GAA had…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament … Mbete, Honourable Chief Justice of the Republic,…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… bloodless coup, thereby ending Portuguese colonial rule in Africa. Thus, Angola attained official independence on 11 … fronts. The MPLA called for a single…
Negotiations, the ANC Vision of a New South African and the Indian Community Keynote Address by the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Evening. We are gathered here today at a time when South Africa is at the threshold of some of the most momentous … allowed you to develop further…