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Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march against a Bantu Education Department…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
1884 Otto von Bismarck chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia are recognized as independent…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
1884 Otto von Bismarck chairs the Berlin Conference to stem the scramble for Africa. Only Morocco, Ethiopia, and Liberia are recognized as independent…
Statement at the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 21 February 1986
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Prime Minister, Comrade leaders of SWAPO of Namibia, Foreign guests, Your Excellencies, Distinguished delegates to this historic Swedish…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
This is the obituary of Hermanus Loots, better known by his nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities in the ANC’s Quatro prison camp. Martin …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished leaders of the South African Jewish Community Ladies and Gentlemen, Compatriots and Friends, I consider it a privilege to…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
The triumphs of the anti-communist crusaders have been made possible only by the tacit support, cowardice and confusion of large sections of people who, at…
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…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Teachers and learners should note that there are many links on this site which deal with the depth and breadth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
This chapter grounds the analysis of the emergence, ideology and politics, organisation and collective actions of SASO which are examined in the next three…
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
We meet here today to commemorate the death of an outstanding young South African patriot, Stephen Bantu Biko. The bloody decade of the 1970s in our country,…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner South Africa is an unequal society. The inequalities are the result of the skilful use of power in…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
During this debate the Prime Minister outlined South Africa's involvement in the Angolan War. He stated clearly that South Africa participated in the war as a…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
Historically, with regard to the Zimbabwe liberation struggle, the ANC had good relations with ZAPU and none with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, Edenvale district, Orange Free State. My father was a small farmer. My…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
Introduction Reflecting on her past years of imprisonment in 2012, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela stated “I think you can stand imprisonment of 27…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
INTRODUCTION This year, June 26, will mark the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the "Campaign of Defiance of Unjust Laws," launched jointly by the…
ArticleJune 16 Youth Uprising casualties
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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…
Statement to the 20th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 14 November 1984
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Your Excellencies, Heads of Delegations, Honourable Ministers and Ambassadors, Your…
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
Comrade Chairman, Distinguished members of the Presidium, Comrades, Delegates and Friends, There is a special significance which attaches to this…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
Our Vision is a Democratic Society (Speech at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
(Speech at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the President General of the African National…
Chapter 12
Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards did not work and they found it necessary to change their tune again. The…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
Archive2009 - President Motlanthe, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2009 (Before National Elections)
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, to the joint sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 6 February 2009 Madam Speaker…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner I have shown in The Eye of the Needle that a participatory socialist democracy is not impossible, in…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert 24/3/98, Johannesburg Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
We meet in the wake of great international gatherings concerned with the building of a future of peace, progress and friendship among the peoples comprising…
XIII - The Courts
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa In any society where courts exist they tend to play a significant role in the system…