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The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… We here present and many thousands elsewhere are grateful to the Legal Resources Centre for taking the initiative in … conversation but without answering my…
PlaceNorth West
… First premier (1994): Popo Molefe North West's claim to fame: Siege of Mafeking (today Mafikeng) in the Anglo-Boer … made in 1979 when Sun City was opened in…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… wrath of the state. The crackdown forced the ANC and PAC to re-evaluate their approach to the liberation struggle and consider whether to abandon … police…
XIII - The Courts
… South Africa In any society where courts exist they tend to play a significant role in the system of domination. They normally claim a monopoly of the right…
Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 2017
… Comrades, friends, ladies and gentlemen: I am privileged to take this opportunity to convey my humble appreciation of … and our society as a whole must…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… wider question of race conflict in the country in reaction to the ANC Defiance Campaign. The South West African question … 1946. Initially the South African…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… meeting with the redoubtable Solly Sachs, when I flew to Johannesburg for the interview. He didn't seem at all … broken chairs. The helpless people were…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… Black workers and their families suffer these hardships to a degree unknown by their White working-class … Africans who get this sickness are sacked at once…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… territorial claims by the Government of Lesotho, to which the Government the Republic was attending, according … talks. If I were to speak irresponsibly…
Address at the World Food Summit, 10 June 2002
… This important meeting in Rome is a declaration of hope to the peoples of the world that the leadership on our common universe is committed to "eradicate…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… had become convinced that underground and armed resistance to apartheid had become imperative. Though they disagreed … respected his views and actions - for…
ArchiveStatement announcing retirement, Nelson Mandela, 1 June 2004
… my good friends from the media. Thank you very much to all of you for taking time out of your very busy schedules to come and listen to me this morning. I…
ArticleThe Johanna
… a British East Indiaman vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the command of Captain Robert Brown. … that could be broken or cut into…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… off the land. A series of draconian legislation designed to uproot people from their land or where they were tenants … entrenched that by the time the…
Storming: The Insurrections Ensemble by Marcus Grossman, September 2015
… take on colonialism that Cesaire and many others decided to re-interpret and re-interpret. But for the Insurrections … time when rock made sense: he warns,…
Address by President Mandela at the Seoul University Seoul, 6 July 1995
… as a centre of academic excellence. Indeed, your day-to-day activities capture succinctly the motto inscribed in your constitution;and this is to "cultivate…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie … its architecture. Their subsequent…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political … political involvement, while still others endeavoured to strike a balance…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
… Disciplinary Committee of Appeal (NDCA) on 4 February 2012 to hear evidence in mitigation and aggravation of sanction in … As prayed for by the Appellants,…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… both peace treaties that ended conflict and gave birth to new constitutional orders. The first was the Treaty of … was endorsed by the four colonial…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… the Truth and Reconciliation Commission asking them to help her find his remains. The investigation that followed proved to be a considerably difficult one…
Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of Ahmed Timol inquest by Amanda Khoza (News24.com), 27 June 2017
… Timol's family uncovered new evidence, which it presented to the National Prosecuting Authority, asking for the inquest to be reopened. The NPA agreed to…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… his bed, in 2007, Ellen Pakkies strangled her son Abie.” To make this and the other pictures in his series, Goldblatt, … through prison-rehabilitation groups…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… in Africa, with Church buildings and a School that dates back to 1738. The original Moravian Mission Church houses the … of White farmers, were reeling from…
PlaceMasorini
… situated some 11km from the Phalaborwa Gate, on the road to Letaba. As the letters PI-NE appear on the trigonometric beacon, it was incorrectly believed to…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.2 Jul-Aug 1981
… Martins; Siphiwe Koko; Jacqui Nolte; Goodman Mabote. Back Cover Drawing: ‘Healing Force’ by Fikile. Columns and …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
… and Comrades; Ladies and Gentlemen. Whenever I have to speak about the veterans of our struggle like Helen … Oliver Tambo and others, a feeling of…
PlaceUmlazi
… History of Umlazi The history of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when British settlers forcibly occupied what was then … , a settler in his capacity as…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… the day, in his youth, when he first joined the struggle, to this very hour, Today, as the struggle against the … community is how soon and at what cost we…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… the day, in his youth, when he first joined the struggle, to this very hour, Today, as the struggle against the … community is how soon and at what cost we…