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Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT, 5 February 1999 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1950 Jamiatul Ulama Natal, Durban 82 The Jamiatul Ulama Natal was founded in 1950…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1946 NIC Meeting, Curries Fountain, Durban There was…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
Hertzog and Pirow’ Bills were putting the Africans more and more into a state of slavery’. Gumede, April 1930. INTRODUCTION In 1930 Gumede had taken the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede On Easter Sunday 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the Bantu Men's…
Archive2007 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2007
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 9 February 2007 Madam Speaker of the National…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 3 February 2006 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Madame…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
Today, January 8th, 1987, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 75 years old. Con sequently, we are honour bound to do more than observe an…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
Political freedom from foreign rule, essential as it is, is not freedom.1One freedom is essential. That is the freedom for an individual to develop to his/ her…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN – WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "VOICES OF RESISTANCE” INTERVIEWEE SUNNY SINGH INTERVIEWER C DE VOS DATE 28…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
Contents Early Days Seasonal work in the canning factory THE 'SUBS' STEWARD - "a fine leader to workers in all areas" Life as general secretary Providing…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
Sons and Daughters of Afrika! We of the African National Congress meet once again to review South African and world events; our Congress policy of rights and…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
Names: Mellet, Patric Tariq. Date of Birth: 1956 Place of Birth: …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
POM So let me start. AG I wonder whether we shouldn't get over the part we have already dealt with just to see what was said at that time that applies…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
Esmé was as active as I was and we enjoyed working together. One of our early activities was helping to organise non-racial youth camps over the Easter…
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Second Joint sitting of the third Democratic Parliament, Cape Town 11 February 2005 Madame…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
Fellow South Africans: On the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the African National Congress, we extend our greetings and best wishes to you, to the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy President of the…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political can go on forever, without necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Between 1926 and 1934 waves of 'insubordination', 'defiance' and 'riots'…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
1859After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of 1859 is…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
Contents Economic Development and the Expansion of the African Working Class The Quiescence of Political Organisation in the 1930s Mass Spontaneity and the…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from the prison diary that he kept…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
To cover 22 years of imprisonment in chronological order is too difficult - and I think it would be boring to read about that life within a life in such detail…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
It is not easy to write about prison. When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been outside the prison…
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society 30 March 2007 Introduction The 52nd National Conference of the ANC will provide an important…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial appearance, in 1971, at the national and biennial Art South…