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Speech by the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, to May Day rally
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy
Leon Trotsky, "Closer to the Proletarians of the Colored' Races!", The Militant, 2 July 1932
Further reading and Links pertaining to History of Slavery and early colonisation in SA
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
An appeal to appeal to students and scholars - April 1961 by Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing this letter on the instructions of the All-in African…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
Seretse Khama was the chief of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). Khama's problems with the British started when he married an English woman,…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
I The Constitution of South Africa shall provide for the establishment of one sovereign state, a common South African citizenship and a democratic system of…
EventNqwiliso cedes land to Cape Government
Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signed a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he ceded sovereign rights and shipping in the…
Letter from Ben Maclennan to Priscilla Hall relating to inadequate food rations at Glenmore township
Letter from Ben Maclennan to Priscilla hall relating to the inadequate supply of food rations to the resettled Glenmore township dwellers
Letter from Witvoet Mapapu to Priscilla Hall requesting for assistance to access his pension money
Letter from Witvoet Mapapu from Glenmore resettlement camp to Priscilla Hall requesting for assistance to enable him to get his pension money from the…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
The Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to passive resistance icon, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi, 105 years after a racist decision barred the young…
The wound of the daughter of my people wounds me too
Black and white poster. Quote from the Bible, Jeremiah 7. Artwork of women and children. Issued by the SWAPO Womens Solidarity Campaign, Namibia. poster.
(1976) ‘Asking too much of our kids’, The World, 25 February
”’Top Secret’ Report at Rivonia Hearings”, Pretoria News, 10 December 1963
Plan too vague for Black South Africa: apartheid in a different guise?
Clip on TRC hearing on the murder of Chris Hani, Part 2
Clip on TRC hearing on the murder of Chris Hani, Part 1
’Asking too much of our kids’, The World. 25 February 1976
Golf Is For Girls Too by Richard Maguire (SPEAK), September 1994
Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs South Africa.
EventHertzog and Smuts to form a coalition
Nationalists were stunned by the announcement of seven points according to which Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog was willing to cooperate with Gen. J.C. Smuts to form a…
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
The Star reported that two men, Elliot Nkuma and Joseph Mahlalela were sentenced to death for the necklace murder of M. Mpapne that took place in 1986. The…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
The South African government for the first time allowed 20 local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two official photographers…
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
Following a press conference of General Staff Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Chief of ForÁƒÂƒÂ§as Armadas Populares de LibertaÁƒÂƒÂ§ÁƒÂƒ£o…
EventSouth Africa readmitted to United Nations
For South Africa this date signaled the end of decades of international isolation . The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) recalled resolution 48/258…
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi called on the South African government to stop the hooliganism by Whites. The authorities…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
The League of Nations, the world body formed after World War 1 in 1919, afforded South Africa a mandate to govern South-West Africa (now Namibia). The mandate…
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse, renowned for her exposure of conditions in concentration camps for Boer women and children during the Second…
EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, wife of imprisoned ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, was banished to the dusty Afrikaner dominated town of Brandfort in the Free State…
EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
On 4 March 1990 Brigadier Oupa Gqozo of the Ciskei Defence Force (CDF), and a former member of the South African Defence Force (SADF), leads a coup in the…