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Pro Veritate
… change to afford equal human rights and opportunities to all in a united South Africa. Several editions of Pro Veritate were declared … 19th October 1977…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… named after one of the first casualties. But commerates all of those that marched through Soweto and shot at by … Which has now become Youth Day, a public…
EventRhodesia adopts new constitution
… regardless of the support Rhodesia received from South Africa demonstrated the non feasibility of minority rule as … (uprising) brought enormous pressure…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa. The Act enforced segregation of all public facilities, including buildings, and transport, in …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… activist, Helen Suzman , was born in Germiston, South Africa. During her 36 years in Parliament she defended the right to freedom of expression for all South…
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… to public outcry, the British Colonial Office in South Africa appointed a Mr Labouchere as head of a South African … raid and in effect to absolve the…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… Lindiwe Mthembu, Makhosi Nyoka and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all African National Congress (ANC) members were shot dead … been transported in across the…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… throughout the country. As a result of this Act, all Black people living in so-called White areas had to be … process has happened in many other countries,…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… itself as the means of coordinating and federating all revolutionary activity, it is unlikely to grow to the … . There is an overwhelming need for unity …
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… institutions of civil society and implementing the RDP in all its facets.” In May 2001, Alec Erwin, then Minister of … Development Programme (RDP), which was…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… the ANC, had support in black communities across South Africa. But there are areas that, historically, are … 117/7/22/1340 ). At this stage the state…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked South Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the People`s Army of … the demands of our people were…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked South Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the People's Army of … the demands of our people were…
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… you greetings from your brothers and sisters in South Africa. In a real sense, we can say without any fear of … we are happy to be amongst boa gente. In fact…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… Side by Helen Joseph June 1971 had brought me freedom from all the frustrations of house arrest and the other onerous … decade. I did not know what it would…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of the ugly hand of tyranny in the union office removed all differences and, when I returned from my private office, … at the action of the Minister and…
Speech on the Occasion of Installation as the Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare and on being Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by O. R. Tambo, 19 October 1991
… Comrades and friends, I stand here before you today, in all humility, to receive the two great honours this … for me. It is an hour that links the distant…
Address to the SANC Local Government Conference, 30 July 1999 Johannesburg
… governance, the genuine empowerment of the people, wherein all people decide who their leader are, where people … will be proud to say we live here; this…
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… which did not make for the advantage and improvement of all. We who have been in the Congress and have worked in it … endeavoured to initiate movements for…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… sitting of our first democratic parliament. I wish all of you a productive New Year in the service of the … that the programmes of government are not the…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… sitting of our first democratic parliament. I wish all of you a productive New Year in the service of the … that the programmes of government are not the…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … by Allison Drew CALL TO A NON-EUROPEAN UNITED FRONT! TO ALL ASIATICS, COWURED…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Opening Session of the South Centre’s Council of Representatives New York, 21 September 1998
… I bring warm greetings from the Movement's membership from all corners of the world. As the premier source of research … also have the enormous advantage of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… guests, the warmth we have encountered at every step;all these things remind us that we are among very special … ever have doubted India's concern for the…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 1993. The fact that we have done so in the midst … amend the reality that the Afrikaners…
PlaceJames Hall Museum of Transport, Johannesburg
… and most comprehensive land-transport Museum in South Africa , was established by the late Jammie Hall and the City … in February 1964. The Museum shows land…
Address by Mandela to the CBI conference London, 10 July 1996
… to guests and the keen interest in developments in South Africa - all have inspired me to turn around a famous phrase in … that our exports have grown at an…
ArchiveAddress at Commemoration of the lives of Yusuf Cachalia and Bram Fischer, by Nelson Mandela, 5 June 2005,
… laying the foundations for our democracy is well-known to all patriots. I have written and spoken extensively about … to the families I am recognizing also…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… NationalCongress which was widely distributed in South Africa recently. Ina rousing CALL TO REVOLUTION which appears … succeedsin completely driving our…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin
… me strange. Yet for those concerned with Indians in South Africa the period was one of hope. The Indian community was … of humour and never resented a joke…