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How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… of the features of being a leader, especially one who is a freedom fighter, is that one acts in the present, but needs … This is in order to be ready to…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… The Defiance campaign The African National congress The Freedom Charter The women Resistance movement Sharpeville … on the armed struggle, South Africa…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… PW Botha, speaking in parliament, offered Mandela his freedom on condition that he 'unconditionally rejected … at Pollsmoor Prison send their greetings to…
EventZambian journalist, Fred M'membe is born
… of the Media Institute of Southern Africa's Press Freedom Award in 1995. That same year, he also won the International Press Freedom Award. However, M'membe…
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… to the last - they are not prepared to allow the torch of freedom to be wrested from their hands and stamped out under … will not and cannot crush the demand…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the Seventh Provincial Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, 5 February 1954, Durban
… In the name of Afrika and Freedom I greet you all! AFRIKA! AFRIKA! MAYIBUYE! INKULULEKO NGESIKHATHI SETHU (Freedom in Our Lifetime)! Let us sing together to…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… AZASO under the new leadership of Joe Phaahla embraces the Freedom Charter as its guiding document on education, … be opened". It was the adoption of ANC…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… equality in law and practice. Further, it stated that freedom cannot be won for any one section or for the people … "Women`s Charter" were ultimately…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… of the day as being a turning point in the struggle for freedom. The keynote speaker, Boesak, spoke of bringing … a wide range of groups and unity among…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… under the new leadership of Joe Phaahla embraces the Freedom Charter as its guiding document on education, … be opened". It was the adoption of ANC policies…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… of the People and is on the drafting committee of the Freedom Charter , but is unable to attend due to her banning … in Maputo for First’s funeral. 20…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the early … the central focus of the…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… strike. They also called for the day to be celebrated as Freedom Day in the future. At this period (1950), the … by the Congress of the People (CoP), in…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… view of the role played by women in the struggle for freedom. It is often overlooked that women played a very … ANCWL made sure that women's demands were…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and … length and breadth of our country to rise and demand the Freedom, of the…
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
… from your organisation by these unlawful intimidations!" Freedom Volunteers Dealing with the freedom volunteers, the President says there is some … Indian…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… I am truly honoured to celebrate nation-building, freedom, peace and unity with you, as you pay tribute to some … time as we prepare to mark the fourth…
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
… vote. The National Party (NP) received 20.39 %, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) 10.54 %, Freedom Front (FF) 2.2 %, Democratic Party (DP) 1.7 %, Pan …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Congress Alliance had been approaching the struggle for freedom and equality. Changing tactics was not going to be a … National Congress on 26 June 1955 in…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… National Congress (ANC) and its allies as South Africa's Freedom Day. December 20 , Threat of mass action unless the … National Congress (ANC) and its allies…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… and throughout the 1980s. It was at this time that the Freedom Charter, advocating for a non racial South Africa, … The reason for this was the increasing…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… for a non-violent end to apartheid. November, Quote: 'Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people … Spiritual Leadership award from Humanity…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… were used in the battlefront areas where they had more freedom of movement and contact with members of other labour … with fellow non-white South Africans,…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… Vulindlela, Fassie cleverly captured the sentiments of freedom and optimism that followed Mandela becoming the … those who are most often excluded. As a…
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
… (Press report) "The struggle for freedom must go on no matter how hard the struggle might be! It must go on because Freedom is the noblest human attainment…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… to vacate the venue quickly they were attacked by Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members. The security police also began …
EventMulti-party delegates endorses the Interim constitution
… concessions to demands for a federal government by the Freedom Alliance, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the right wing Afrikaner … majority of the…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… Samuel Jonas who later followed them to the gallows. The freedom we celebrate on 27 April each year came at an immense … sacrifices of our comrades who paid…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… church meeting and tell them about us wanting to make the Freedom Charter and what it was for, and then collect their … wants and they put all these wishes…
Congress of the People - I was there
… held at Kliptown to discuss and finally adopt the historic Freedom Charter which forms the basis of our policy today. On … of their country from the yoke of…