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Speech by President Mandela on receiving an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Australia at a graduation ceremony at Fort Hare University University of Fort Hare, 23 April 1998
… receiving an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Australia at a graduation ceremony at Fort Hare University University of Fort Hare, 23…
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for … of generations of anti…
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… For the first time in the history of the United Nations, a representative of the majority of … and this august body, in the name of the African National…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely … and Deputy President of the African…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… sensitivities. The recent agitation at the University of Legon in Ghana for the removal of a statue of Mahatma … Dube – the first president of the African…
Address at the Welcome Ceremony of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, 25 August 2002
… Friends, Peoples of the World: On behalf of the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Honourable Kofi Annan, the … Address at the Welcome Ceremony of…
Address at the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly 23 September 2003
… President of the General Assembly, Mr. Julian Hunte, Secretary-General of the UN, Mr. Kofi Annan, Your Excellencies, Ladies and … I congratulate you, Mr…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE COMING of the missionaries to Southern Africa at the end of the 18th century…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the National Council of Provinces Cape Town, 7 August 1998
… Premier and MECs; Honourable delegates and representatives of local government; Ladies and gentlemen, One of the signs of the maturing of our democracy is…
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… religious and secular sites that declare or are expressive of the values or ethos of the people who built them. These sites also allow us a … The experience…
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… Chairperson of the TRC, The Most Reverend Desmond Tutu Presiding Officers of our Houses of Parliament Ministers and Deputy Ministers Leaders of … Statement…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE FUNERAL OF JOE SLOVO Johannesburg, 15 January 1995
… Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, Ministers, leaders of the Tri-partite Alliance; Dear comrades; Fellow South Africans; We are assembled to mourn the passing of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… On June 16, 1976, as we all know, the children of Soweto, Mamelodi, Gugulethu and other areas rose united in … unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the…
David Goldblatt: In the time of AIDS by Galeria Elba Benitez, 31 March 2009, Madrid
… galería elba benítez the artist presents his “In the time of AIDS” suite, which features medium sized colour photographs. The carefully chosen selection of…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
… The visit of Nelson Mandela to India may be an appropriate occasion to recall a little known but significant aspect of relations between India and South…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Support … Africa must Bt submits to the latest racial…
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
… Chairman, President Vicente Fox, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellency, Mr Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations,…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901 1 Mr. Chairman and … we are performing tonight. We are driven…
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… In 2001, the ANC National Working Committee (NWC), of which I was a member, issued the seminal document, “Through the eye of a needle? Choosing the best…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… convened to adopt important amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 1993. The fact that we have done so in the midst of the most…
The tragedy of history: When caricature displaces the truth by Thabo Mbeki, 11 January 2016
… Churchill actually said, speaking at the British House of Commons on 23 Jan 1948, was, “For my part, I consider that … be influenced by the political or…
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… Ms Ruth Sando Perry, was unanimously elected at a meeting of West African heads of state to become the third chair of Liberia's ruling council. Perry,…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
… Scurr penned the following article on the restoration of the Old Cape Archives (today the Centre for the Book). It was published in Restorica, the journal of…
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…
ArchiveKora: 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…
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…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… The Naledi High School branch of the South African Students Movement (SASM) held a meeting, which was attended by representatives of all Soweto high schools,…