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EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… Kaunda allowed liberation movements from Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe to use his country … for his role in the struggle against…
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… this operation were to smuggle freedom fighters into South Africa and maintain open communication links between the ANC … plot, the ANC had infiltrated key…
Address to the World Council of Churches Harare 12 December 1998
… oppressed for their freedom. To us in South and outhern Africa, and indeed the entire continent, the WCC has always … Fir that true solidarity, the people of…
XI - The Verdict
… book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa The Deputy Attorney General also made a closing … but that the police are now an autonomous…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… In a lifetime dedicated to the achievement of South Africa`s liberation, Adelaide Tambo demonstrated fortitude in … and to carry on the work of the…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… and clause in the Freedom Charter that stated, "South Africa belongs to all who live in it black and white". South Africa had to be governed by Africans and…
The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994
… in the ANC’s own archives, other archives in South Africa and Zambia, and oral sources, the book, which is also … has taught at universities in Swaziland,…
BiographyShepherd Mdladlana
On 12 May 1952 Shepherd Mdladlana was born in Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape. He has been South African Minister of Labour since 1998 and is a member of the…
BiographyPumzile Majeke
Local chair of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) branch at Fort Hare University in 1972-1973.Regional secretary of SASO in Natal (now KwaZulu…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an arrogant … is confined to a little more than ten per cent of South Africa…
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… Last night, the people of South Africa and the rest of the world were treated to an arrogant … is confined to a little more than ten per cent of South Africa…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Investment Against Crime Seminar 19 August 1998
… ideas on topics of such importance to the future of South Africa as investment and the fight against crime, is more … the rich diversity of the Chinese…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving and Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University Boston, 18 September 1998
… sphere of educational and intellectual resources. When in Africa we speak and dream of, and work for, a rebirth of that … here. The United States of America…
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… Leah, near Liverpool. At the age of 21, he came to South Africa and started his ministry in Namaqualand. In May 1821 … Click here to read more about…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… to the King and General Smuts, his government and South Africa, your land of adoption. In remaining loyal to the … on a white enemy and hoped that it would…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… Goldblatt has previously focused on ex-offenders in South Africa and worked with the arts organisation Multistory in … not compromise about my work.”…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… 21 March 1940, Eersterust, Gauteng (then Transvaal), South Africa Died: 11 February 1990, New York, New York, United … to freelance fulltime and in doing so…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… support from the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa (FEDSEM), located close to Fort Hare. Figures such as … Christian Movement, the Christian…
BiographyPasqual Macamba
Pasqual Macamba, also known as (Khauleza Ndawe), a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) died from natural casues in the…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… Royal Commonwealth Society over developments in southern Africa. It would seem to us clear that in the recent … their impact on a liberated, post…
Jason Laure
… Author: photographer of 32 books. Collection: UNICEF Africa Museum of New York; UCLA; Woodstock Museum, New York. …
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… of further book titles in the Social Identities South Africa Series are therefore quite timely and appropriate. The … think anew and in fresh ways about …
EventEvelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Germany
… Evelyn Dalberg, a prominent opera singer in South Africa, was born on 23 May 1939, in Leipzig, Germany. The … member of the Cape Town City Orchestra, she…
EventThe “Ossewabrandwag” is founded
… World War (WWII) broke out in 1939, the OB opposed South Africa's involvement on the side of the Allies. They felt that Germany was not an enemy of South…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… on a date for the start of negotiations on South Africa's future constitution. Delegates agreed that the … would be called Convention for a Democratic South…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… -just look at the political and other history of South Africa - this party is the one that has brought about most changes in South Africa. It was the…
The Polly Street Era
… departure for Paris.) Sekoto has never returned to South Africa although he has continued to exhibit work here. In the … to a white woman, he was unable to…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
… the societal progress from Apartheid to a democratic South Africa substantially to O.R. (as he was affectionately … a leader who had a calling to serve the…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… the cause of democratic rights for all in South Africa regardless of race, colour or creed. He did not appear … political climate in which the late Gell…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… and his death drew worldwide condemnation of South Africa's detention practices and repressive laws. Two years … on the cause of his death. Even close allies…