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Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016
… The December 17, 2007 website of the UK newspaper, “The Guardian”, carried an article … Chris McGreal. Among others McGreal said that as President of the ANC…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal will take … 150th…
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…
ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… and regret that the African National Congress has learnt of the death today (12 September 2004) of Ray Alexander Simons, a champion of the working class and…
Memorial service of photojournalist Juda Ngwenya by Cyril Ramaphosa, Rhema Church, Randburg, 26 October 2016
… compelled us to have conversations about the wellbeing of our country and continent. His illustrious career took … Africa and his perspective was shared in…
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… Allison Drew Document 59 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936 141 … position than myself to inform you about…
Kora: 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…
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… Most historians consider the first half of the 1960s as a period in which the Nationalist Party (NP) Government consolidated white rule in the face of…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON RECEIVING THE FREEDOM OF PIETERMARITZBURG Pietermaritzburg, 25 April 1997
… I feel deeply honoured to be awarded the Freedom of the City of Pietermaritzburg. For me personally this city has strong … in building democracy, peace and…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier, calmer and less … in other prisons than it was for her, during those…
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…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… Drew Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932 THE MILITANT … Dear Comrade:- We sincerely welcome the…
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
… the future" 8 August 1960 The white minority rule policy of segregation and more so its virulent form, apartheid, have … each other Black and White in South…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… league manifesto," Issued by the Provisional Committee of the Congress Youth League, March 1944. Preamble WHEREAS … on him from above and elects to develop…
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…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… ago, Muhammed Ali was asked for his thoughts on the death of the great African-American boxer, Joe Louis. Ali’s comment … one’s generosity and one’s…
The 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…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… The 48-minute television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year-old Roodepoort teacher and anti-apartheid activist who fell from the 10th…
EventApartheid minister of Law and Order opposes White radicalism in the South African police force
… The minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, announced in the House of Assembly that no member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) would be tolerated ……
Church and State relations: the story of Bophuthatswana and its independence from 1977 to 1994
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Theology in the subject History at the University of South Africa. Abstract: This thesis is…
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… On 4 October 1929 the Table Mountain cableway, one of the world’s biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, was … The official ceremony was opened by the…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… an end. When apartheid crumbled in the late 1980s the task of reconstructing a society in which human rights would be upheld begun.This involved inquiries…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… On 1 January 1972, for the first time in the history of the South African Police (SAP), policewomen were enlisted as 'full members of the force'. Two white…
Event“Maberete” strike ends more than a decade of labour broking at the South African Post Office
… (SAPO) to be employed directly. This constituted one of the few major victories in the working class’s fight against all forms of third party employment. In…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… as the non racial political party, IFP. The headquarters of the IFP were in Ulundi, the former capital of the … would be run by an assembly elected by…