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Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
Question: Mr. Tambo, you have just completed a tour of some African countries; what was the aim of this tour and what are its results? TAMBO: Our delegation…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
OriginsOne of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed response…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
The arrival of the British at the Cape changed the lives of the people that were already living there. Initially British control was aimed to protect the trade…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Radio Freedom on Visits of Multi-National Corporations to the ANC, before February 1986
They assess the apartheid system in terms of the profits or the losses it yields. It has always been clear that for them the apartheid system will be useful so…
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 92 "Communist Party of South Africa Plenum…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
The increasing politicization of the oppressed and exploited masses of South Africa/Azania demands the constant re-writing and re-assessment of the past. New…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
Fellow South Africans, Today, 8 January 1991, we observe the 79th anniversary of the foundation of the ANC. On this historic occasion I greet you all on…
Chapter 6
Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all the forces ranged against the progress and political development of the African…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic…
We are no longer in France - Book Launch
This book recovers the lost history of colonial Algeria’s communist movement. Meticulously researched – and the only English-language book on the Parti…
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
(Press report) "The struggle for freedom must go on no matter how hard the struggle might be! It must go on because Freedom is the noblest human attainment…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
On behalf of the African National Congress, its National Executive Committee and the entire oppressed and struggling people of South Africa, I am honoured to…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
In aftermath of the June 16 Uprising, the government cracked down on student activists and organisations alike. On 19 October 1977 the Black Consciousness…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
Mr. Chairman, Esteemed Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Ministers and fellow delegates, Comrades leaders of the liberation movements, Ladies…
Document 21 - E.L. Maurice, “The Rôle of the Non-European Teacher in the Liberatory Movement”, Discussion, 1, 5, June 1952
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 21 - E.L. Maurice, "The RÁ´le of the Non…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
(Dr. Dadoo was sentenced in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` imprisonment with hard labour. He had been charged…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
The Rainbow Restaurant opened its doors for trade on Thursday 17 December 1981. It was the first such establishment of its kind in KwaZulu Natal, located in a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940 - 1949 1940 Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr Yusuf Dadoo's role as an activist in…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
While looking at the background information on the Russian revolution and the change to a Communist state in Russia, we have already touched on many of the…
ArticleThe Order of the Baobab
This Order is to be awarded to South African citizens for distinguished service. The service awarded is well above and beyond the ordinary call of duty. It is…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
Why consider the history of a hundred-year old law? Surely the Marikana massacre and farm-workers' strikes are more urgent? In fact, there are direct links…
Ikwezi
Ikwezi, a Xhosa word meaning "rising star", was a Marxist-Leninist journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, published in England…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement of the President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki, Kempton Park, 27 September 2002
Chairperson Comrades delegates and friends We meet at this Policy Conference, during the historic year of the 90th Anniversary of our organisation, the Year…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
1900s 1917 27 October, Oliver Reginald Tambo (OR) is born in the village of Kantolo, Mbizana, in the Mpondoland (eQawukeni), region of the Eastern Cape…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
As the only White amongst those convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial, Denis Goldberg will always have a unique place in that story…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
Reading from the "Lamentations of Jeremiah", Chapter 5 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach, Our land is turned…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
NEW DELHI: 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries at its meeting of…