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Statement by President Nelson Mandela at the presentation of the "Cape Town Bid"at the 106th session of the International Olympic Committee Lausanne, Switzerland, September 5, 1997
… Statement by President Nelson Mandela at the presentation of the "Cape Town Bid"at the 106th session of the International Olympic Committee Lausanne,…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela on the 50th anniversary of the 1946 Passive Resistance campaign and the launch of the commemorative publication Durban, 13 June 1996
… Speech by President Nelson Mandela on the 50th anniversary of the 1946 Passive Resistance campaign and the launch of the commemorative publication Durban, 13…
Letter reporting on joint meeting of the Executive Committees of the All African Convention and the African National Congress from Moses Kotane to Professor Z. K. Matthews, May 8, 1949
… Letter reporting on joint meeting of the Executive Committees of the All African Convention and the African National …
Opening Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the meeting with President F.W. de Klerk on the situation in Natal, Pretoria, 11 September
… Opening Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the meeting with President …
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… On March 9, 1980, the racist Prime Minister of South Africa, P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the … had decided to summon a conference representative of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… On the night of the 19th of November in the South African city of Durban, agents of the Pretoria regime brutally … Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The 1946 … Indian Representation Acts ushered in a…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… unemployment followed. As there was no social insurance of any kind in the country, the unemployed workers suffered great distress. For the hundreds of…
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… peaceful demonstrators on May 1st, 1950. The violence of that murderous act was the violence of the pass laws, the Suppression of Communism Act, the Group…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… Cape Point is a promontory at the South East corner of the Cape Peninsula , which is a mountainous and scenic … about thirty kilometres at the extreme South…
Burkina Faso: Echoes of a Revolution Past by Ernest Harsch, December 22nd, 2014
… Burkina Faso: Echoes of Revolution Past Ernest Harsch discusses the enduring appeal and influence of the revered revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara. There…
Address at University of KwaZulu-Natal SRC awards, 7 May 2005, Howard College, Durban
… Ndebele, MEC for Economic Affairs, Dr Zweli Mkhize, Deans of Faculties and the entire academic community, SRC … Guests, It is a pleasure and a privilege to…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… act as host to a conference which would investigate ways of establishing effective contact. In response to this general feeling of dissatisfaction a meeting…
Message by Albert Luthuli on the eve of Multi-Racial Conference, 1 November 1957
… on December 3-5, 1957. Very little, if anything at all of what is new, can be said about it now. But the need to … achieve this "underlining" that I have…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove most decisive in…
43. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the Natal Indian Patriotic Congress, 1909
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … The Natal Indian Patriotic Union was comprised mainly of non…
Address at the Opening of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 February 8, 2003
… Director of Ceremonies, President of the ICC, Mr Malcolm Gray, Dr Ali Bacher, Executive Director of the ICC, Mr Malcolm Speed, CEO of the ICC, Minister of ……
Duties as Minister of the Interior, Resettlement, Township Administration, Inkatha and KwaZulu politics
… Oral interview with Dr F T Mdlalose, KwaZulu Minister of the Interior at his offices in Ulundi. Please note that … for ANC Youth League 05:53 -06:86 - Youth…
EventZulu King Cetshwayo address his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu
… On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo addressed 20 000 of his warriors at the great military kraal of Nodwengu: "I am sending you out…
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
… and declaration by the United Nations Organisation of human rights and the fundamental freedoms was a great … when organised world opinion showed an…
EventResearchers proclaim they found a type of SIVcpz that is almost identical to HIV
… On 4 February 1999 a group of researchers from the University of Alabama proclaimed that they had found a type of Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIVcpz)…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… treasurer, and thereafter rose rapidly through the ranks of the parent body, serving as secretary-general from 1949 to … a key figure in events leading up to…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… Parktown High School and studied at the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS). After marrying Diana Malkin in … wife to the United Kingdom (UK), where he…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… as Egypt, and Bechuanaland (Botswana). At the outbreak of war in South Africa, he was given command of the British 1st Division. In December 1899 he…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
… this morning we come to pay our last respects to a member of our generation of freedom fighters and patriots. Over these last few years … we have with…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… Roodepoort. During the conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the Black Parents … about Black Consciousness, in which…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… 16 December is a day of great significance in South Africa due to two historical events that took place. The first of these was in 1838, when the Battle of…
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… his high school studies, he registered for a Bachelor of Commerce Degree at the University of the North (now University of Limpopo). However, he went into…
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
… Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, was the eldest child of Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, (descendent of Jan Smit and Adriana Tol) and Elizabeth Magdalena van der Merwe, …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… at the South African Native College (now University of Fort Hare), but dropped out after two years. He returned … National Congress (ANC) in 1949 and became…