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Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
… but two! I will always cherish this association with the great intellectuals of a renowned tradition of scientific … demands such skills in abundance. Our…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… I greet you all, delegates and visitors who made this a great meeting, which will be of historical importance to our … To maintain power it makes laws…
EventANC founder John Dube’s daughter passed away
… three daughters, two sons, thirteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She was buried alongside her parents, …
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… produced many drawings, paintings and woodcuts. He was a great inspiration to young Black artists, who he trained. The …
EventA commemorative exhibition of the work of painter and cartoonist John Amshewitz opens in the City Hall in Johannesburg
… genres included landscapes, portraits and still life. A great cartoonist and illustrator, he found work at the Rand …
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
… that Nguni are closely related to Bantu speakers in the Great Lakes area of East Africa. Other Nguni customs …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… is the sentiment that people of African descent have a great deal in common, a fact that deserves notice and even …
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… was by a narrow margin demonstrating that he did not enjoy great support from the National Party. The Muldergate scandal …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… America had entered the war on the side of the Allies - Great Britain, France, Russia - in April 1917, and sent …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… of the Transvaal . Report prepared for the General Staff, Great Britain War Office. London. MATTHEWS, Thomas . 1971. …
PlaceKempton Park, town in Gauteng
… and restaurants, and the busiest airport in Africa, it’s a great choice for business and leisure travellers alike. … to suit all needs and budgets, Kempton…
Document 55 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers’ Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
… LEAGUE, of South Africa Dear Comrades, we have read with great interest and great attention the documents and letters you have sent us. …
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit, one of the last great 'actor-managers' of Great-Britain. From 1953 to 1958, Harwood became the personal …
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… with his children, his grandchildren, his great grandchildren and the entire family. Our thoughts are … has lost its greatest son. Yet, what made Nelson…
20th Time of the Writer
… Kunene’s internationally-acclaimed Emperor Shaka the Great. As we successfully celebrated the 20th edition of …
PlaceElsie’s River
… The Municipality is The City Of Cape Town. It is with great sadness that we note the passing of Soli Philander (19 … It is with great sadness that we note…
EventDavid Phaswane Mogano, SA artist, is born in Pietersburg , Northern Transvaal
… at the Polly Street Art Centre in 1959.He trained under great artists such as Cecil Skotnes and Sydney Khumalo. He …
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion) newspaper hailed him as a great leader who was at all times available to address the …
EventNational Party wins national elections
… 1924 elections which resulted in the Pact Government, the Great Depression, from 1930 to 1933, made the government's …
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… under Captain J. Lonsdale. Sandile was a son from the Great House of Ngqika. During the Seventh Frontier War …
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
… Town. In 1922, the YCL played a supportive role during the great white mineworkers’ strike when 25,000 white miners …
Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 09 May 1986, New Delhi
… against the inhumanity of apartheid has featured many great men and women, whose contribution to the common effort … face of this massive popular effort, it…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… against the inhumanity of apartheid has featured many great men and women, whose contribution to the common effort … face of this massive popular effort, it…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… our condition may be, in our strivings to change it, the great humanity is with us. For we are met here today as one … your distinguished Committee, not to…
Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
… Above all we speak to the black working people, our great proletariat which through its sweat and toil has … Manifesto has "nothing to lose but its chains."…
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… black-white barrier could [have been] broken down and a great measure of mutual understanding reached although the …
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… any kind in the country, the unemployed workers suffered great distress. For the hundreds of garment workers, who had … a tremendous spirit of militancy…
The death of Mama Luthuli,16 December 1996
… own right. The ANC deeps its revolutionary banner to this great patroit, heroine and Titan. She may rest in peace for …
EventSouth Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high
… radio was revealed to the public for the first time at the Great Empire Exhibition. In 1926, developments took place to …
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… know that hidden somewhere in the chest of that man lies a great lover of humanity. He also sent a team of six of his … corner of the country, black and…