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BiographyStephanie Kemp
… in the South African War, worked as a principal of the Swartland Laerskool. Her cousins were members of the Afrikaner Broederbond . Her mother came from a ……
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… as in Worcester, a picturesque Western Cape town northeast of the famous South African harbour city. Supporters of the liberal South African party of General…
BiographyTerry Bell
… Congress (ANC). He subsequently joined the Congress of Democrats (COD). Bell’s journalistic career in 1960s in … Sunday Times and Sunday Express . He was the…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… Codesa's first plenary session boosted the chances of a speedy resolution to South Africa's conflict and of … actually fall away. Parliament would then be an…
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
… Programme Director Leadership of the Organisation of Cde. Oliver Tambo and the Alliance Business Community … women do. Oliver lived because he had…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… for sporting, cultural, academic and economic boycott of South Africa. March 19, The Pan-African Congress (PAC) … Pan Africanist Congress, including Robert…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations 1971: It was announced on 28 October that … but they were unable to question him because…
Chapter 5
… The Significance of the All-African Convention Notwithstanding the temporary … Without any premeditated theory the people brought into being a form of…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… Mr Vice-Chancellor, Members of the University Community I am honoured to be invited to be … the progress in achieving unity in the university, unity of…
Message on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Tanganyika African National Union by O. R. Tambo, July 1974
… On behalf of the National Executive Committee and all members of the African National Congress of South Africa, I convey warm greetings and profound ……
Address at the Welcome Ceremony of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 25 August 2002
… Friends, Peoples of the World: On behalf of the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Honourable Kofi Annan, the … Address at the Welcome Ceremony of…
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… religious and secular sites that declare or are expressive of the values or ethos of the people who built them. These sites also allow us a … The experience…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida, 29 March 1986, Maputo
… farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a revolutionary. We have convened on this grieving piece of the earth…
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
… Chairman, President Vicente Fox, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations,…
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… hit squad, with 16 police officers. The existence of the unit was first revealed publicly in 1988 on the eve of … Nofomela. Before his execution, Nofomela…
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… Ms Ruth Sando Perry, was unanimously elected at a meeting of West African heads of state to become the third chair of Liberia's ruling council. Perry,…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
… Scurr penned the following article on the restoration of the Old Cape Archives (today the Centre for the Book). It was published in Restorica, the journal of…
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
… To mark the 40th anniversary of the death of former ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli tomorrow, 21 July 2007, the ANC is publishing a special edition of the…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… for the tolerance that has come my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose … daughters, Camilla and Aurora. Apart from…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… beloved Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding president of our democratic nation has departed. He passed on peacefully in the company of his family around…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… Willem Botha was the prime minister and then president of South Africa from 1978 to 1989. He is commonly referred to as "Die Groot Krokodil" for his strong…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… The Naledi High School branch of the South African Students Movement (SASM) held a meeting, which was attended by representatives of all Soweto high schools,…
Statement of the NWC on the organisation`s readiness for the upcoming election, 10 May 2011
… The National Working Committee of the African National Congress held its regular meeting on … other things, receive updates on the organisations state of…
Address at the launch of the Kruger National Park Centenary Celebrations Skukuza, 26 March 1998
… Ministers and Provincial Premiers; Chief Executive Officer of the National Parks Board; Distinguished guests; … come. So it is a great pleasure to celebrate…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… Natal in the early years of the 20th century became the site of conflict between Colonial Administrators and autonomous African chiefdoms. The death of…
ArchiveThe National situation, an address delivered at the Edendale Conference of the All African Convention
… The address opens with a description of three major landmarks of the year, namely; The first, the Treason Trial, which … in a Union-wide police swoop. The…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Diplomatic Correspondent of Morning Star, 23 November 1967, London
… for a common onslaught against the enemy at every point of encounter as we march down for the liberation of our respective countries," he went on to explain:…
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
… has documented the social and political developments of his native South Africa with a critical yet compassionate … and immanent…,” Goldblatt photographs the…
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
… The African National Congress of South Africa brings you this urgent call to unity and mass … by political prisoners on Robben Island to all patriots of our…
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… The trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist, member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) and former editor of the New Age began at the…