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New Year Message to the ANC External Mission by O. R. Tambo, 1 January 1971
… and fellow-workers for freedom and peace for southern Africa. Today, it is even more important that we continue to … threatens. And danger does threaten. The…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… of the first ever Passive Resistance Campaign in South Africa. In the course of the campaign 3 500 Indian and … to lead the first passive resistance…
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…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… demanded the withdrawal of the High Commissioner in South Africa. Aga Khan presents memo to Viceroy to call for Round … India to bring the issue of…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world … and fascist enslavement has yet to be defeated. In South Africa the whites maintain their…
Address at a Luncheon in Honour of Zhu Rhongji, Premier of the People’s Republic of China, 5 September 2002
… over the world for honouring us with their presence. South Africa and developing countries may not have obtained … Within this broad framework of relations…
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… to serve them, and the Malay culture became part of South Africa own heritage. Some of the buildings in Cape Town are … a new language called Afrikaans that…
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 … in 1948 had a special significance. The failure of South Africa to…
BiographyBeauclerk Upington
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 99. …
BiographyXego Michael
Mike Xego started his political career in youth politics. He was a member of the Student Christian Movement(SCM) in 1974, before joining the Black…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South Africa and outside, Comrades-in-Arms in different parts of … minority domination and the creation of…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… Jubilee Anniversary of the founding of the Union of South Africa will be observed some time in the current year. Its … vigour and determination: "We, the…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… was quite unlike other African locations in South Africa. And that is because it was never a location. It was a …
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… international bravado." - Source ' Making of Modern South Africa' by Nigel Worden …
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… was used to manufacture nuclear weapons by the South Africa government. The history of nuclear energy in South Africa dates back to 1959 when the country's…
EventNational Party wins national elections
… a Nationalist vote as a vote for a "White South Africa". Although the NP won for the second consecutive term, … 09 June 2010] Chronology of Important Events:…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… The first issue of South Africa's first daily newspaper, The Cape Times, was published … production ever since. The history of newspapers in South Africa was…
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,…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… camp of the regime and on its personnel inside South Africa. Does this, Comrade President, herald a new stage of … in Rhodesia today; tomorrow we shall be…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… Soweto is an urban settlement or 'Township' in South Africa, South West of Johannesburg , with a population of … in 1923. Soweto became the largest Black…
Toast remarks by the President Jacob Zuma to the official state banquet held in his honour on the occasion of the state visit to Uganda, 25 March 2010, State House Entebbe, Uganda
… greetings of the government and the people of South Africa to Your Excellency, and to the government and the … through political, social and economic…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… was the result of the following factors. Firstly, South Africa had been isolated through international trade … failed to combat the ongoing uprisings. Lastly…
EventThe PAC is formed
… other Black political organisations, was banned in South Africa after the Sharpeville Massacre in March 1960. Within … years, the organisation set up offices…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… Racism in Isolation South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world … and fascist enslavement has yet to be defeated. In South Africa the…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… S., 2021. Status Quo Terrorism: State-Terrorism in South Africa during Apartheid. Terrorism and Political Violence, … S., 2021. Status Quo Terrorism: State…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… all at this graveside here today because the march from Africa`s colonial past to her social liberation continues. … been struck down, as so many Zimbabweans…
BiographyRexon ‘Scotch’ Mathebula
Rexon Mathebula also known as Scotch was born on 15 April 1926 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Mathebula left Sophiatown when he was seven years old and went to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… of an African is now added. If today the people of South Africa are free at last to address their basic needs;if the countries of southern Africa have the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1972
… centres throughout the length and breadth of South Africa and the then Protectorates, a new era in the history … of our country, our supporters at home, our…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… the country had time to settle down under Union, South Africa was fighting in the Great War. After the conquest of both German South West and East Africa,…