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EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… for the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. Between 1962 and 1995 he was the Honorary Secretary … the defence strategy of the apartheid…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… South Africa had been suspended by FIFA in 1961 and formally … in a FIFA-sanctioned international.Cameroon arrived as Africa's most celebrated side, the…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… Our immediate enemies, the white fascist regime in South Africa, are an important and integral part of the imperialist … Israel acts as catspaw of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and peaceful … to struggle together against racism: above all in…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and peaceful … to struggle together against racism: above all in…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… supporters of the heroic struggle of the people of South Africa, Comrades, The names of the founding fathers are in … had declared in 1906: "The brighter day…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… Meeting, New Delhi, 28 January 1948 You know in South Africa our people are fighting for their rights ... They … move from one province to another without a…
Message by Albert Luthuli on the eve of Multi-Racial Conference, 1 November 1957
… honest people that on this human factor the Union of South Africa has a regrettable record. We have failed to live up to … resentment at exclusively white…
Address at the UN General Assembly, New York, 12 September 2002
… to the 57th General Assembly to report that the peoples of Africa have risen to these challenges by forming the African … which championed the cause of unity…
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… of the Nation' , on December 16th 1961. In 1994 South Africa elected its first non-racial and democratic …
EventSixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho
… refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho to counter South Africa's threat of a blockade against that country. A year … Lesotho refused to sign a non aggression…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… a dominant political and economic force in apartheid South Africa. The AHI began as an alliance between small and large … (AWB). The AHI has survived into…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… for ethnic groups of Bantu people residing in the Southern Africa. These groups are divided into Southern Nguni and … fighting: Reassessing male violence and…
Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
… Committee of the African National Congress of South Africa and on behalf of the struggling people of South Africa, I thank members most sincerely for giving…
Address at University of KwaZulu-Natal SRC awards, 7 May 2005, Howard College, Durban
… we have made in continuing to build a better South Africa, a better Africa and a better world, is being noticed and recognised. … task of nation building and…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable Sir, At a time … among the African people in the Union of…
PlaceCiskei
… the Eastern Cape was created as an enclave for the South Africa's Xhosa -speaking people as part of apartheid racial … along with other Bantustans served to…
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… his task to establish a Refreshment Station at the Foot of Africa for the Dutch East India Company. Cape Town Harbour … had become a stopover for Dutch ships…
PlaceJohannesburg Art Gallery
… was a Jewish Londoner who had originally come to South Africa to work as a clerk in the diamond fields. … art - to which, well before Nelson Mandela became…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… we Sizwe - on behalf of the oppressed peoples of South Africa and those of Namibia, on behalf of Nelson Mandela and … of other political prisoners, on behalf…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… we Sizwe - on behalf of the oppressed peoples of South Africa and those of Namibia, on behalf of Nelson Mandela and … of other political prisoners, on behalf…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… to grow his company into a major book publisher in South Africa. The Zuid-Afrikaan ‘was formed largely as a reaction … unity of English and Afrikaner whites,…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… During this debate the Prime Minister outlined South Africa's involvement in the Angolan War. He stated clearly that South Africa participated in the war as…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… I felt it was time to write about my life in South Africa in struggle, in prison, in exile, in freedom and back home in my homeland, South Africa. It has…
'We Go To Action': Statement on the Launching In Natal of the Defiance Campaign, August 30, 1952
… discriminatory and unjust laws in the Union of South Africa with the object and hope of getting white South Africa to adopt a policy of allowing full…
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
… T, and Lungisile, N. (2011). Rural resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo Revolts after fifty years . Brill. Leiden. …
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… spirit, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa granted Midi Television, a free-to-air broadcasting … and Information System's Pocket Guide…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
… government wanted to demoralise the ANC and display South Africa's disapproval of the British government and their … kill ANC officials because this would…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… joined in celebrating the achievement of freedom in South Africa. It was a victory that was as much yours as it was … home when we most needed it. For that…