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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…
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…
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,…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… cognate questions that are basic to the Welfare of South Africa are attended to." In the founding of the African … our freedom and obtain justice and a fair…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST" in our own South Africa and in the rest of Africa. The number of men and women persecuted for the … to have the country…
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…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… The newly appointed British High Commissioner for Southern Africa delivers to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his … stumbling block in the attempt to…
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… games staged in Barcelona, Spain in 1994. This was South Africa's first participation after a long ban by the … for the first time under an Interim Olympic…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the balance. But the future does not … exists to a great extent in the present…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Banquet help in honour of President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi Cape Town, 2 June 1998
… great pleasure to welcome you and your delegation to South Africa. May you feel the same warmth here that you yourselves … renowned for extending to visitors…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… also referred to a few of the problems confronting South Africa. He considered it necessary to emphasise again that the peoples of South West Africa must…
PlaceHouse Schoch, Boschdal, District of Rustenburg
… father Wilhelm August Schoch, a Swiss immigrant to South Africa. and the author of a book entitled 34 Jahre Im Lande … for his children, supply interesting…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… his role as both a chief and as ANC president. Yet South Africa was changing. When Buthelezi chose to engage with the … leader to bring about a democratic,…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… well as from the struggling masses of the people of South Africa, to this historic tenth General Conference of the … father of the Zambian nation,…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… our greetings and best wishes to you, to the peoples of Africa and the world. Together we have travelled a long road … to act together to advance towards the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… that occurred prior to the arrival of Europeans in South Africa - farming and globalisation. These were not sudden … past. The second is the length of time…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… Delegates to this Workshop on Human Rights Education in Africa, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a special privilege for me to address this workshop on Human…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… practice of the racial regime which holds power in South Africa. My people - the 600,000 Indians - have a proud and … against the white supremacy State…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… Hill is a Living Museum that tells the story of South Africa’s journey to democracy. The site is a former Prison and military Fort that bears testament to…
EventDepartment of Environmental Affairs and Tourism approves ESKOM’s prototype 110MW pebble
… a potential solution to an emerging energy crisis in South Africa and that this technology could become a valuable … drew protests from environmental groups…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1947
… in honour of the Royal visit to the Union of South Africa. They feel that in view of the disabilities imposed … to share in the rejoicings of the white…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
… Israel: The Politics of an Analogy , twenty scholars of Africa and its diaspora reflect on the similarities and differences between apartheid-era South…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… tenants. This is the land that the government of South Africa speaks of as the "homeland for Africans", and we are … inequality will demand what will appear…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… the upheaval among the Bantu-speaking groups in southern Africa was during the 1820s. The Sotho people call it the … and new groups formed. The mfecane…
Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
… , Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2014. Source: Africa at LSE Reference List [1] Ernest Harsch, Thomas … of Ohio Press, 2014. [2]Kingsley Kobo, “Spirit…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… called for an end to National Party (NP) rule in South Africa and encouraged the struggle against apartheid to … these long years the struggle has been waged…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… forming the first government of the Union of South Africa. The Union was formed in 1910 after the South Africa Act was passed in Britain granting dominion to…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… and commander of an expedition to explore east and central Africa. He then led an expedition up the Shire River, a … than any other European of his day…
EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
… for democratic rule under way, the Republic of South Africa opened itself to the outside world. Diplomatic ties were signed between South Africa and Vietnam…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… to take him to various locations throughout South Africa. Guptas bring the Indian Premier League to SA after it … May 9 2009: Zuma is inaugurated as…