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… corps and guests, Members of the media: I would like to join our Chairperson in welcoming you to this National General Council of the ANC. I am confident … about the failure of these councillors to report back to those who elected them. What the people are correctly …

… occasion keenly aware of our collective responsibility to build a society based on the best in terms of political … non-racialism, non-sexism, democracy and our commitment to a nation of shared prosperity, has earned the peoples … appropriate support services and on proactively reporting back to survivors and their families on progress being made …

… This is a massive task that will take us some time to accomplish. The first objective we confront in this regard … is that we must ourselves take on the responsibility to answer the question - what are the ways and means that we … answering the question - what is to be done - let us step back into a past that is well known to all of us. For …

… of your movement, the ANC, Comrade Oliver Tambo, is unable to address you today as he has not yet fully recovered his health. We speak to you today, January 8th, the 78th Anniversary of the ANC, … South Africans. On this there can be no going back. The challenge remains on FW de Klerk's table for him to …

… one year after the establishment of the Congress. Owing to various causes, it has not been possible to prepare another report during the interval that has … It has now fallen into disuse, and much have we fallen back from our first love that now it is difficult to form …

… remarkable body of writing—from investigative journalism to memoir to political and literary analysis—was driven both by her … Party of South Africa (CPSA). In 1946, during the strike of the African Mineworkers Union, the largest action …

… who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are … when all seemed hopeless in our country, when many refused to hear her resonant voice, she took her own life. To her and others like her, we owe a debt to life itself. To …

… strong country. He felt that industrialisation was the key to achieving this strength and was convinced that the peasant class needed to accept socialism. Stalin preferred the economic policies … of the peasants who benefited from the NEP and wanted to unite them with the working class. The launch of the first …

… with whom he read Arnold's The Song Celestial. Invited to read the original Gita with them. He had never read the … reading. Attended lectures by Dadabhai Naoroji, but spoke to him only once. September 19, Selected to Executive Committee of London Vegetarian Society. October, …

… their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck on the Rand. Moreover, gold mining was … a result, attracted more labour away from the countryside to Johannesburg. It was also capital-intensive and because … was cash strapped, there was room for European businessmen to engage in the mining industry. Before the South African …

… or the Supreme Court of Appeal; as a direct application to the Court, asking it to sit as a court of first and last instance because of the … Court; or as a Bill parliament asks the Court to review. The Court has the discretion whether or not to …

… the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their … their followers that the white race would continue to dominate all aspects of South African society. Its … power", propounded that all black South Africans belonged to a perpetual rural proletariat, which could be trained to …

… protests, giving women a voice. Though FEDSAW was unable to recover after going underground in the 1960s, their … in changing the state of South African and it is important to highlight some of those who never forgot their vision of … African Women (FEDSAW) was an organisation that started to bring women together during the 1950s to demonstrate their …

… information on the Russian revolution and the change to a Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on … and redistributed it among the peasants in order to reform the agricultural sector and reward the peasants for … Labour conditions were improved with working hours limited to a maximum of eight hours a day, and forty hours a week. …

… With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement … In other societies where black people have been subjected to widespread discrimination it is in the field of sport and culture that they have managed to make substantial inroads. Not so in South Africa because …

… Background - "The Road to Reconciliation." South Africa experienced numerous human … A number of brutal measures were adopted by the regime to deal with political activists and other "offenders." Cases … activities. Because the police sometimes resorted to the use of live ammunition, a number of people (both …

… of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no … that our people have been robbed of their birthright to land, liberty and peace by a form of government founded on …

… in present day South Africa with a number of challenges to overcome. Most obstacles to the development of women can be related to poverty, violence and abuse, and inadequate access to …

… Labour Contingent (SANLC) was formed in 1916 in response to a request from the British Imperial Government for an African labour force to alleviate the labour shortage at the Western Front and in … Allied forces faced a particularly acute labour shortage to maintain the infrastructure for the major offensives …

… goal of separate development allowed the National Party to maintain the status quo of white supremacy as well as … (Baldwin, 1975: 218). Separate development was supposed to allow Africans to develop themselves under their own self-government, but …

… the  African Peoples’ Organisation  (APO) resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales as a day … and his companions are imprisoned for their opposition to legislation that prevents Indians from entering the Transvaal.  Many other Passive Resisters continue to court arrest 1911 March 15, Natal, Transvaal and Cape …

… of a child are the overriding concern when it comes to any matter affecting him or her. Section 28 - Children … entitled "Children", says: Every child has the right to - a name and a nationality from birth; family care or parental care, or to appropriate alternative care when removed from the family …

… passed the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance (Black Act) to control the entry of Indians into the Transvaal. Every Indian man, woman and child older than 8 years had to register with the Registrar of Asiatics. Indians and … not register by a certain date would no longer be allowed to stay in the Transvaal. The law required Indian people to …

… People's Convention in Cape Town. The organisation aimed to unite Coloureds against the efforts to remove them from the common voters roll. The SACPO also … Successive South African Governments subjected Coloureds to repressive policies. This sort of treatment began shortly …

… 1859 is passed. This law made it possible for the Colony to introduce immigration of Indians as indentured labourers. With the option to return to India at the end of the five year period in which case a …

… Commission. You can read far more detail by going to SAHO's TRC feature In an interview, Nelson Mandela said: … www.pbs.org The apartheid government in South Africa came to an end in 1994, but the new government in South Africa had to work through the question of dealing with the past in …

… however, were chiefly concerned by British attempts to annex their self-declared republics, a move that would … and their conceptualization of their relationship to the land was less utilitarian and more Romantic/Calvinist. Finally, denying the franchise to foreigners in the Boer republics, by their reasoning, was …

… of political liberalisation and negotiations leading to the first democratic elections the South African Students … this enemy is much less clear. It is therefore not as easy to mobilise and organise students as it was before 1994. … of the mergers of institutions, many students don't appear to have much interest in important higher education issues at …

… a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom 28 May 1957 The Honourable … among the African people in the Union of South Africa, to address this letter direct to you as head of the government to apprise you personally of …

… young nation. For many, what happened in Parliament speaks to a broader devastation in our land. For many, the fire was … by rising unemployment and deepening poverty. It spoke to the devastation of a pandemic that over the past two years … better-than-expected recovery. However, we have been held back by an unreliable electricity supply, inefficient network …