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Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… independent judiciary. As reflected in our historic policy document, the freedom charter, we are committed to ensure all …
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… within the EU with per capita GDP below 75% of the EU. A document of the European Commission on Regional Policy says …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… Africa. What was the significance of the transition? The document that perhaps best encapsulates the meaning of the …
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… to produce evidence of legal presence in Cape Town. The document, known as a pass, contained details of employment, …
The Legal Veneer
… application and status as at July 1990 appears in the HRC document, entitled Internal Security Act , published in July … or threatened by one or other…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
Important events and systems in European Societies during the 1600’s Robb Schultz, “Europe leading into the 17th century (1600’s)”Image Source The…
Article2016 in Review
In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it has been. At the end of the first week…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre, in 1960, signalled the…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
The International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
By 1968 the freedom struggle for Namibia was a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. That struggle was directed by the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… 5 June, UWC’s SRC issues Die Geel Dokument (the yellow document), listing student grievances and calling on …
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
Action Kommandant is a story about a young activist from the dusty and drug ridden streets of Bonteheuwel. Directed by Nadine Cloete under Ma'engere Film…
David Goldblatt: In the time of AIDS by Galeria Elba Benitez, 31 March 2009, Madrid
In David Goldblatt’s second exhibition at the galería elba benítez the artist presents his “In the time of AIDS” suite, which features medium sized colour…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
On 7 August 1993, Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), had just been given the freedom of the White section of the Town,…
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… 70 years since the adoption of the landmark human rights document, the African Claims in South Africa at the 1943 …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… 70 years since the adoption of the landmark human rights document, the African Claims in South Africa at the 1943 …
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… South Africa, and how could we conceive of one as being a document that empowered the poor, the marginalized, rather than as a document that simply protected…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
Abstract: For most of his life, Arthur Nortje’s poetry remained relatively unknown, especially since he died very young at 28. Activist Dennis Brutus called…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
Introduction Sharpeville shortly after the shootings © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… extension of the pass laws to African women. The pass is a document which is intended to regulate and restrict the …
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… was mandated with the task of preparing a strategy document that would respond to the repression that was …
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
… the strategies spelt out in the United States Government document, National Security Council Memorandum 39. (7) The …
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… It was that conference which produced a comprehensive document on the strategy and tactics of the ANC. Reporting to …
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… Document 23 26 June 1992 Introduction 1. The Declaration of …
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… of dissidents who had charged that this was a Marxist document, emerged at that conference, and subsequently broke …
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… one of the sponsors, by publishing the facsimile of the document with his signature. Xuma was cute enough not to sign …
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… This was the "plan" proposed in "Operation Mayibuye", a document captured by the police in the Rivonia arrests. …
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… and implement the hopes and wishes expressed in that document! "But the Africanists who are committed to the …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… system. Africans were required to carry passes, a form of document, which allowed them to travel and find jobs only …
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… their demands which would be incorporated in a common document called the Freedom Charter . Literally millions of … of South Africa. It was a simple, honest…