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My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… is still there. I still want this country to be like the Freedom Charter says. South Africa belongs to the people who are … not interested. We still say the…
ArchiveAddress at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom
… ago London hosted a historic concert which called for our freedom. Your voices carried across the water to inspire us … oppressed, there is more work to be…
EventChief Buthelezi considers registering the IFP for April 1994 election
… in Durban that he was considering registering his Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). The elections were set to take place on … but added that his party's demands,…
EventConstable Vlotman is given a R500 fine and a five year suspension sentence
… Apartheid government was concerned about threats to media freedom. However, the sentence meted out suggests that the … the journalists and showing a…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… Congress and the African People Organisation organised a “Freedom of Speech Convention” in Johannesburg. The Convention … in the Congress of Democrats and…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… the role that these activists played in the struggle for freedom was erected on the site of the massacre in 1997. …
Address to the nation by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, on the assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani 10 April 1993
… day of truth will dawn. Chris spent his life fighting for freedom, democracy and justice. It was this passion for … selflessly chose the often thankless task…
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…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
… ensure respect for basic human rights as enunciated in its Charter. In the dark days that lie ahead, we should be … an admission by the Government of the…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… 5) The divine destiny of the African people is National Freedom. Unless Africans achieve national freedom as early as possible they will be confronted with…
73. The Congress of the People, June 1955
… corner of our land and demands for incorporation into Charter were to be formulated. Third stage . During this … a direct connection between the more long…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… no other purpose than to further the CAUSE OF PEACE AND FREEDOM in Afrika in particular, and in the world in general. When I say Freedom I mean true freedom…
South Africa: Basic Education Hosts 2016 Inkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme, 4 to 7 October
… to the "Honouring our Heroes and heroines programme" of Freedom Park. The iNkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History is a … sessions on the 5 October 2016 to 6…
ArchiveStatement Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, ANC Chief Whip Nkosinathi Nhleko, 10 May 2004, Parliament Cape Town South Africa
… is today taking part in celebrating the first decade of freedom and democracy in our country. And as we so, we remain … joint sitting on the celebrations of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… new. It has been continually forged in the struggle for freedom. Enforced division has engendered in our people a powerful urge towards unity as a condition…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… of the Sharpeville massacre to knowledge of both the 1955 Freedom Charter and the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The Freedom Charter is the statement of core…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… the elected representatives of a people for whom our freedom was as precious as their own. Angola's solidarity … their liberation was of heroic proportions…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… was a fearless defender of the principles of academic freedom and university autonomy, defining academic freedom as the university’s right to determine who…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… essence it is the same speech. Those of us who are in the freedom struggle in this country have really only one gospel. … it in different ways, but it is a…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… essence it is the same speech. Those of us who are in the freedom struggle in this country have really only one gospel. … it in different ways, but it is a…
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… Congress (PAC)has been involved with in relation to the freedom struggle of the oppressed in South Africa and the … of the PAC and directed the course of…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… in South Africa was closely linked to the struggle for freedom of speech. The South African Commercial Advertiser, … The paper reappeared again in 1828, with…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018
… Obstinacy, in this sense, was also why his commitment to freedom never wavered. Nelson Mandela was notoriously … proponent of the non-racial and multi-racial…
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… The Act received strong opposition from the right-wing Freedom Front (FF), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the South African Agricultural Union …
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… has led the people of South Africa in the struggle for freedom. For over fifty years it has been the sword and … Africa is in flames - the flames of…
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… has led the people of South Africa in the struggle for freedom. For over fifty years it has been the sword and … Africa is in flames - the flames of…
”Africans and San Francisco.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma, May 8, 1945
… opportunity to continue pressing your claims for full freedom as human beings. Demonstrations on Victory Day must be merely a stage in this fight for freedom…
EventThe Declaration of Windhoek
… World Press Freedom Day is observed on 3 May. This day was the … the 3 May 1991. This declaration is a statement of press freedom principles put together by…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1974
… countrymen... On this, the eve of June 26th, South Africa Freedom Day, which we all observe annually, I greet you in … usurpers and colonisers; and later to…
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… year we shall re-dedicate ourselves to the struggle for freedom in that great assembly of the people, where we shall write a charter for freedom. The…