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ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… conference was the first of its kind held inside South Africa for over 30 years. It brought together leading … the resolution affecting 30% representation of…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … go out from the following two starting theses. First of all when dividing the…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… outcasts to be viewed with contempt. Gangs in South Africa Crime and violence were an important reality of urban … a day-to-day reality, and Sophiatown was…
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… Algeria which has suffered so much for the freedom of Africa and attained so brilliant a triumph in the victory of … intention of promoting trade and…
The African Women`s Demonstration in Natal: Report by Albert Luthuli to the Natal People`s Conference, 6 September 1959
… people by the use of overwhelming peaceful pressure to win all their demands for freedom. We are aware of the fact that … of our multi-racial society. Under…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… that led to Europe. European traders bought gold from Africa and exchanged it for spices and silk in Asia. The … were tasked with finding an alternative…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… to determine which white authority had real power in South Africa but other populations groups like the Zulu, Xhosa, … conscious Blacks, Coloureds and Indian…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… It is, in essence, about making millions of our people, all along excluded by apartheid, a full part of national … and breadth. We have implemented electoral…
Khoisan Identity
… language and identity. As a free and democratic South Africa today, we cannot ignore to correct the past’. This … of Khoisan communities in the history of…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… 1947. PART 1: POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRUGGLE A. SOUTH AFRICA The Indian people The present leadership of the Natal … other alternative as they were…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… Let August the 28th be the D-Day for the neo-Nazis of Africa as May 8, 1945, was for their mentors in Europe. The … children of our land, the democratic…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… Prison is situated in Paarl in Cape Town, South Africa. The prison looks more like a boys school than a … prison, with beautiful mountainous backdrops and…
EventLibya becomes independent
… (UN) and one of the first former European possessions in Africa to gain independence. At the time of independence … for the establishment of a sovereign…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… In addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983 had been tabled and approved by … being puppets of the apartheid regime. The…
EventBarney Pityana is elected Chairman of Human Rights Commission
… that the commission would ensure that the rights of all citizens were protected, ensuring that South Africa complied to the Universal Declaration of Human…
EventSamuel Tshabalala becomes the first black athlete to win the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades Marathon
… grandest marathon in the world, athletes flock to South Africa from all over the world every year to take part in the race. They … at: www.comrades.com …
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… time. He held thirteen exhibitions from 1967-1985 in South Africa, Europe and the US. Macala’s chosen technique was … with huge black eyes is easily…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… livelihood, and both wanted to protected themselves at all costs. The V.O.C. established new districts such as … each other over territory and resources. The…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of … between 1960 and the independence of Zimbabwe…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… 787 copies of the leaflet ‘Sons and daughters of Africa’, and 447 copies of the leaflet 'The African National … became part of the world system of…
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… heroic struggles led by the great Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, has always been a source of inspiration and strength for all opponents of the apartheid…
PlaceAalwynkop Peak, Mpumalanga
… South-East of Heidelberg, in the Gauteng Province of South Africa . The name is of Afrikaans origin and means 'aloe … that also graces the many untouched…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… of the historic significance of this moment. South Africa has reached a watershed in the democratisation of our … democratic forces on the basis of a vision…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… in exile. BOSS was at the cutting edge of Apartheid South Africa's fight against what it considered a threat on the … were spontaneous. Van Den Bergh claimed…
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
… with people of other races and to observe independent Africa when the family attended religious meetings in …
BiographyPaul David
… at his home in KwaDukuza (Stanger), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… one purpose, to enslave the Non-European peoples of South Africa. This period, too, has required its special agents, … in the political field and they were…
The ANC launch the Luthuli Volunteer Corps in Magareng Sub Region, Warrenton, Frances Baard Region, 19 September 2013
… underpinned by an understanding that the people of South Africa remain their own liberators, with the ANC being a … vision of a non-sexist, democratic and…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… of the oppressed and exploited masses of South Africa/Azania demands the constant re-writing and … deep imprints on the national liberation struggle in South…
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… recovery got underway. The Soviets responded by stopping all highway, rail, and water travel between Berlin and … countries of the British Commonwealth,…