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Imperial Duty by John Ruskin, Oxford 8 February 1870
John Ruskin: Imperial Duty, Oxford 8 February 1870 "Imperial Duty" There is a destiny now possible to us ”” the highest ever set before a nation to be…
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
As a white person in white-ruled South Africa, Denis Goldberg chose to be part of the struggles of the oppressed rather than live in the glare of white…
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
The mayor of Cape Town, Thomas Ball, laid the cornerstone of the City Hall on 29 August 1900, but the Hall was only opened in 1905. It was designed by…
Render South Africa Ungovernable! - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 73rd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1985
Compatriots, A new year has begun, bringing with it fresh hopes and new challenges. I am sure that I express our collective conviction when I say that during…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 73th Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 1985
Compatriots A new year has begun, bringing with it fresh hopes and new challenges. I am sure that I express our collective conviction when I say that during…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
A spirit that refuses to submit to Tyranny Once again another biennial Conference is upon you. It is my good fortune to be privileged once more to open your…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
cc SABC February 27 marks 37 years since the passing away in the hands of the apartheid regime of the great pan-Africanist leader. His radical dedication…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
For the oppressed people of South Africa the commemoration of the twentieth year of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rightsbears a very…
Memorial service of photojournalist Juda Ngwenya by Cyril Ramaphosa, Rhema Church, Randburg, 26 October 2016
It is heart-breaking to say goodbye to a special human being like Mr Juda Ngwenya. He leaves his nation with a gaping wound and his profession with a void…
Declaration by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
Declaration We the delegates to this the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress, assembled here at the University of Limpopo, in the great…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION On the second day of January 1920, seventy…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 6. "congress youth league manifesto," Issued by the Provisional Committee of the Congress…
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 9 February 2023 Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula,…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement During the 1950s Congress activists had built, if not…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… images of ourselves that tell us more about our lives”. (Film footage vid 1) Before the use of cultural work in South …
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Mrs Motlana and family, The President of the Republic of South Africa, Cde Kgalema Motlanthe, Former President Thabo Mbeki, Leadership of the ANC and other…
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
Not much of District 6 was left when the apartheid regime forced the residents out onto the grassless Cape Flats and razed their homes. What remained,…
Address as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 9th Session of the Islamic Summit Conferences, Doha, State Of Qatar, 12 November 2000
Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairman of the 9th Islamic Summit Conference Your Majesties Your Highnesses Your Excellencies Heads of State and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the first Triennial Conference of the Methodist church of South Africa Durban, 17 July 1998
Presiding Bishop Mvume Dandala; Delegates; Distinguished Guests; When I met with you at your annual conference in Umtata in 1994, we were all still…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
(In a speech to the fifth session of the OAU Ad Hoc Committee on Southern Africa, Nelson Mandela dealt with the wave of violence in South Africa, and said that…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
We, the five thousand delegates to this 53rd National Conference of the African National Congress, gathered at the University of the Free State, united in the…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
I don't know why I should have been honoured in this way by being asked to open this exhibition; awhole stream of people have done far more than I have been…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, down to our daily lives. The delegates…
PlaceHamburg Village
Hamburg is a small Town, with about 1000 inhabitants, in the Eastern Cape Province. It is located on the coast between the East London and the Town of Port…
Adams College, Amanzimtoti
Adams College is a Public School situated in Adams Mission which is 8 km inland from Amanzimtoti and 35 km South of Durban. Established in 1853, Adams College…
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
Witwatersrand, ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Its name means “Ridge of White Waters, in Afrikaans.” The highland, which…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the sudden arrest of some of the leading liberation…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
In 1977, a group of "cultural workers"from the townships fled into exile in Gaborone, Botswana; including Molefe Pheto, from Mhloti Theatre. Thami Mnyele…