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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…
Liberation and Ethics. Is there a connection? by Raymond Suttner, 05 April 2016
It is no exaggeration to suggest that the legitimacy not only of President Jacob Zuma and the ANC, but also the notion of the liberation struggle itself is in…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
1924 E.S. Reddy is born in a small village of Pallapalli in India to E.V. Narasa Reddy, a Gandhian who went to prison in the individual satyagraha in 1941,…
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
The fate of Natalia After the defeat of Dingane, the Kingdom of the AmaZulu was hurled into political strife. Mpande was open to the demands for land by the…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 1924-1946 by ESSOP PAHAD D. Phil Thesis, University of Sussex, July 1972 GO TO…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
On 26 June 1959, over five hundred people attended a meeting at the Holborn Hall, London in order to launch an economic boycott against South Africa. Speakers…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in 1961, a number of distinct phases are discernible. Originally a…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC In 1950 the Communist Party, faced with…
Dawn
The official policy of the African National Congress was one of non-violence. However, after fifty years of non-violent struggle, Umkhonto we Sizwe (meaning…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase By 1957 any relative lull in the mass…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, "Presidential Address to the…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
Mr. Chairman, Members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I came on Thursday, having spent a whole week…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
To the President-General and members of the Executive Committee of the African National Congress and the President and Councillors of the South African Indian…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
The date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day in 1838, the Voortrekkers fought a battle for survival against…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
Albie Sachs SA Constitutional Court Judge interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane Johannesburg, Constitutional Court, 24 March 1998 Taylor: The…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
Divested of names and birthright Autshumato and Krotoa were ferried oor die see, oor die see, in die eiland stemertjie every time they incurred the wrath of…
ArchiveCommissions presented at 5th General Students
The memorandum contains commissions to assess, among others, the theory of the struggle pertaining to the Black culture, the feasibility of research into…
ArchiveSWAPO Calendar 1985
SWA Calendar celebrating 25 years of struggle. 1960 -1985. Red, white and blue border at top. Black and white photographs in centre of struggle for Namibia's…
ArchiveAddress at the opening of the ANC Conference at Arusha, 1 December 1987
Address by Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere of Chama Cha Mapinduzi, at the opening of the African National Congress (ANC) Conference in Arusha, 1 December 1987…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – doyen of South Africa’s liberation struggle and the matriarch who was dubbed ‘the mother of the nation’ – took the apartheid system…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
Question: How do you assess the situation in southern Africa after the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front has signed the ceasefire agreement? TAMBO: The liberation war…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
Question: How do you assess the situation in southern Africa after the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front has signed the ceasefire agreement? TAMBO: The liberation war…
ArchiveTasks of the ANC in the present period
Memorandum listing the tasks of the African National Congress. Covers the nature of our society, the character of the struggle, the forces of transformation…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today 20-23 September 2011 The 100th anniversary of the African National…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 76 - The Speakers' Notes - A Brief Course on…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
1942 28 June, Martin Tembisile, who later becomes known as Chris Hani, is born in the village of Sabalele in Cofimvaba (then named St Marks) region, Transkei…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has played…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…