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Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
It is important to remember that the early Gandhi had little contact with Africans and did not understand their sensitivities. The recent agitation at the…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
Mr. Speaker; Honourable Prime Minister; Distinguished leaders of the opposition parties; Elected representatives of the people of Canada; Ladies and…
Ikwezi
Ikwezi, a Xhosa word meaning "rising star", was a Marxist-Leninist journal devoted to proletarian socialist revolution in Southern Africa, published in England…
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…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
April 6: People's Protest Day The African National Congress has served notice on the Government that the Non-European people can no longer go on tolerating …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
It is a great honour for the ANC and for me, personally, to have been invited to participate with the Swedish labour movement and people in observing May Day. …
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
Power to the People! Matla! Mayibuye! We have come a long way from the day 18 years ago when the Nationalist Government police shot down and killed in cold…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
Racists humiliated "The MPLA has always had the closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People`s Republic…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
"The MPLA has always had the closest relations with the ANC - for well over ten years - and together with FRELIMO of the People's Republic of Mozambique, PAIGC…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
‘The CPSA are the only people who are with us in spirit’, Gumede in Brussels, 1927. INTRODUCTION The focus of this chapter is Gumede’s extensive visits to…
PlaceRed Location Museum
The Red Location Museum is situated within the Black Township of New Brighton, of Port Elizabeth (now called Gqeberha). Surrounded by the colourful homes of…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
This pamphlets tries to highlight a series of events that the Pan African Congress (PAC)has been involved with in relation to the freedom struggle of the…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
Jazz has had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper will trace its function in the political struggle waged by Black…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
The history of the struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of workers against…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
Africans resisted colonial rule from the outset, trying to hold on to their land, but were not strong enough to defend themselves against European conquest…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
Newspapers or publications by African people played a critical role in giving them an alternative space to articulate their views. The emergence of a number of…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The role played by the Black Consciousness Movement …
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
We would like to take this opportunity to pay homage to the farsighted leaders of our region who, eight years ago, decided to establish the Southern Africa…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
1910 - 1919 1910 January 1, Indian Opinion reduced in size for financial reasons. January 6, Rev. Charles Phillips and J C. Gibson had an interview with…
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Mr. Chairman, President Comrade Fidel Castro, I have been assigned the great honour, as…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa? …
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa? …
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
The Chairperson, Deputy President Comrade Nelson Mandela, Members of the National Executive Committee, Regional Convenors and members of the Regional…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
The inquest has recently been reopened into the death of the South African Communist Party (SACP) underground operative Ahmed Timol while in the custody of the…
OAU-AU 50th Anniversary Lecture by ANC President Jacob Zuma East London, 26 October 2013
Director of the Programme, Vice Chancellor and Principal of the Fort Hare University, Dr Mvuyo Tom, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive…
PlaceCabo Verde
Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde as the nation now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of Guinea-Bissau…
Address at The Youth Day Rally, Witbank, 16th June 2003
Premier of Mpumalanga, Ndaweni Mahlangu, Our traditional leaders, MP's, MEC's, MPL's and Councillors, Leaders of our youth and young South Africans, People…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
"South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report, on behalf of the Secretariat, to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party…