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Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… also meet here just a day before the 19th anniversary of Freedom day on which we celebrate the freedom which so many of our peace loving people lived and…
ArchiveNon-Central Government structures in South Africa today
… services councils, Bantustans and local government, the Freedom Charter perspective, and practical implications of the changes envisaged in the Freedom…
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… between a fascist clique of oppressors and the freedom-loving people of our country. This story is told in … - the army itself. But the struggle had to go…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… within the African National Congress (ANC). When the Freedom Charter was adopted at Kilptown in 1955, those who …
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Indian community Mount Edgecombe, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 18 April 2014
… as we reflect on our country as we mark 20 years of freedom and democracy this year. It is an important year for … this Easter weekend and express our…
ArchiveRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
… working. Apartheid restrictions and the defiant, joyful freedom of the group’s music meant gigs were scarce, and the … young players could develop their own…
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… The former leader of the Afrikaner Volksunie (AV) and Freedom Front (FF), General Constant Viljoen, announced his … Afrikaanse Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… unionist, a well-rounded ANC leader and a devotee to human freedom. On behalf of government, let me take this … who dedicated sixty years of his life to the…
Resist Apartheid Campaign Message to Meeting in Johannesburg, 11 July 1954
… have the opportunity to write into this great Charter of Freedom their aspirations on freedom. The Western Areas Removal Plan of the Government … from other…
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 … 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…
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…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… the role that these activists played in the struggle for freedom was erected on the site of the massacre in 1997. …
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
… an admission by the Government of the effectiveness of our freedom struggle and of its latent potentialities. It may be … it is merely buying time. It knows…
”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
… a direct connection between the more long-term aims of the Freedom Charter and their local and national struggles … Not only did it create a new spirit but…
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…
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…
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…