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Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency, Secretary General of the OAU, Distinguished Ministers, Fellow leaders of the … upon an accelerated implementation of his…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the National Council of Provinces, Limpopo, 4 November 2005
… Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Honourable Members, … year, again I would like to congratulate the NCOP for its…
50 years of forced removals under apartheid
… bring banners with their communities' names on them. The programme will end with speeches, performances and music. The aim of this occasion is to create…
Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps and Visit of the President, 19 June 2013
… The President of the African National Congress Comrade President Zuma will be visiting Upington as part of the launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on the…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… Mrs Graca Machel and members of the Mandela family; Provincial Chairperson of the ANC, … National Party, the Youth League drew up a Programme of Action…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1972
… The Building of a Nation Speech by O.R. Tambo - commemorating the 60th … Revolutionary Council in pur- suance of our 1969 Morogoro programme. It has been a…
EventMinster of Justice, Pelser defends the banning orders on eight leaders of SASO
… The banning of eight prominent Black Consciousness (BC) exponents in March 1973 came as a direct result of the popularity that these leaders enjoyed among…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , "South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home", … in all the large towns of South Africa…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… As the New Year begins, and on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of your vanguard movement, the … to extricate this system from that crisis. Its…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 1 - … naked racism. The NP government embarked on a determined programme to attack the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… The out break of the First World War had profound consequences for the development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, … Cresswell…
Address by Mashatile on the occasion of the 20th commemoration of the Bisho massacre, 7 September, 2012
… Programme Director, MEC Mlibo Qhoboshiyane Premier of the Eastern Cape Province, Premier Noxolo Kiviet The … contribution to healing the wounds of our…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… the Movement that represents the interests and aspirations of the vast majority of the people of South Africa. Let us … youth development remains a…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… together with architectural students from the University of Pretoria, conducted a survey of its architecture. Their subsequent home at KwaMsiza proved … a…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… Introduction The institution of traditional leadership represents an early form of societal organisation. It embodies the protection of culture, traditions,…
Why protect rights of gays and lesbians?
… the world to prohibit unfair discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. It thereby guarantees equality for gay … Africa's past, sexual orientation…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… operated on the understanding that prisons were places of punishment which was mainly executed through forced prison labour. By the late 1800s, the idea of…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… alternative space to articulate their views. The emergence of a number of publications in the late nineteenth and early twentieth … founded in 1884 by John…
Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO)
… The Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO) was … at a consultative conference held in Johannesburg. The aim of FOSACO was to establish a…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Swaziland Education : High School, Polokwane University of Fort Hare :English Degree Rhodes University : Teaching … Black South African in a country where…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the … country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… Abstract : For most of his life, Arthur Nortje’s poetry remained relatively … Brutus called Nortje “perhaps the best South African poet of our time.” [i] Due…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… Introduction The National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) is South Africa's second largest … 400 000 members. Its largest affiliate is the Association of…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… A Brief Overview The People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was an armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the major…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… were introduced to trade unionism by the early struggles of white British workers who had begun to form trade unions from 1880 onwards. During the first…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… This article was written by Justin Lawler and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the times of apartheid,…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… Government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands, for Blacks. Under the … for a different ethnic group…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) was founded in October 1954 by 61 … unions mainly representing White workers and mixed unions of Coloured and…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… During the 1990-1994 period of political liberalisation and negotiations leading to the … Students Organisation (SASCO) continued the tradition of militant…