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Albert Luthuli`s message from Oslo to the South African people, 5 December 1961
… be with me on this exciting adventure - these ten days of Freedom. My prayer is that the day will soon come when all my people will share in the freedom and…
Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… in thirty years. We do so inside the country together with freedom fighters, some of whom have spent almost three … a nonracial democracy, to ensure that the…
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… to carry out constant actions to oppose oppression and win freedom. * We call on the Indian and Coloured communities and … South Africa and to win a society…
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… Action Committee to coordinate the work of drafting the Freedom Charter, which was adopted by the convention the next day, 26 June 1955. The Freedom Carter…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… Despite the negative response from the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief Gatsha Mangosuthu Buthelezi … had agreed to the proposal despite the absence…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… years ago we joined in celebrating the achievement of freedom in South Africa. It was a victory that was as much … one that you made your own, not in any…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996
… freely given when it was most needed. Your commitment to freedom and justice contributed to the situation where South … non-racial and non-sexist democracy…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… South African and selfless fighter for justice, freedom, human rights and equality, who sacrificed so much … in chief of the people's army was inspiring to…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… great parts of Asia have risen to their feet, and now the freedom struggle is spreading to our own continent, Africa. … the world will govern themselves…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… had taken on a new role for the persecuted South Africans. Freedom songs were composed and dances that had their … between the black populations and…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… the Azanian Students Organistion (AZASO) adopted the Freedom Charter, shedding its allegiance to Black … home where the youth discussed Congress politics and…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… to picket and to present petitions); and section 22 - freedom of trade, occupation and profession (every citizen … in acts of public protest violated the…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… on him by the Apartheid government. Volunteers for the Freedom Charter Campaign Source: SADTU Political Education … a series of campaigns that resulted in…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… earth can stop an oppressed people determined to win their freedom. In the face of unprecedented intimidation by the … the press, immediately before and…
PlaceMqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape
… Mandela recalled this in his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom." Mqhekezweni project aim is to sensitize …
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… we fight for food, tomorrow for the vote and then for freedom for all’. The origins of these committees lay in the … Cape Town. Schreiner, J. 1986. “Women…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
NSDAP- Stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and was a national Socialist German Workers’ Party.[1] Communist Party- The Communist party…
SAHO Milestones
… Art in Cape Town’s Townships 18 July - Photographic essays Freedom ZA by six South African photographers documenting the … and community histories…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
… to pay our last respects to a member of our generation of freedom fighters and patriots. Over these last few years we … in that trying period of exile. She…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… the Indians in South Africa had won the support of freedom-loving people outside South Africa and at the next … resign and lead their people against the…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… Council as Inkatha made a similar announcement. The Freedom Alliance was born out of the ashes of COSAG, and … Ciskei, the CP, and the AfriÂkaner Volksfront…
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… to the secretary of the prime minister, the women sang a freedom song: Wathint` abafazi, Strijdom! Since then, the … barriers that governed their lives and…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… Party (NP) followed with 33 percent and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) with 4.5 percent. 3 May, South Africa … Klerk came in second with 82 seats, ahead of…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at a Joint Sitting of the Houses of Parliament on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, 8 May 2006
… across the world to the great victory of the cause of freedom and democracy in our country. But clearly, the tenth … solidarity we built during the course of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… of democratic capitalism – that wealth would bring more freedom and justice to everyone. However, in practice, there … to increasingly exhibit social…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… love and tranquillity. A veteran of the struggle, a freedom fighter for many decades, Sheila never flaunted her …
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1956 carried the idea forward. In the …
ArchiveAppendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg
… press. Umkhonto we Sizwe will carry on the struggle for freedom and democracy by new methods, which are necessary to … our power in defence of our people,…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
… Campaign;played a prominent role during the writing of the Freedom Charter;was one of the four leaders of the historic … she was elected as one of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… generally, the Atlantic Charter amounted to promise for freedom in Africa once war was over. Britain recruited … Africans to sign up and Britain called it ‘a…