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The Order of the Southern Cross
… Tambo and Chief A Luthuli for singular contribution to the liberation struggle. The silver medal has been awarded to Ms …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam ['we do … Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… thousands of students leaving South Africa to join liberation organisations (primarily the ANC and the PAC) … counterparts in the ANC and PAC. By this time,…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… of its historical significance as a key strategy of the liberation movements over many years and carrying a lot of … an intellectual contribution to the…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… the soil are aliens. It has forcibly separated people by “race” and even families as in the days of slavery. It has … of Africans for an entire generation …
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
… Uprising of 1976, took the lives of many fighters for our liberation, both young and old. I stand here this evening to … Europe especially in the 18th…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… Nations General Assembly to consider "the question of race conflict in South Africa resulting from the policies of … struggle was indispensable as part of…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… conviction that to his the future progress, goodwill, good race relations, and for the building of a united, greater and … conviction that for the future…
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… the US. Both athletes were to compete in the 3000m race, with Decker being the favorite to win. During the race, Budd accidently tripped Decker and the…
PlaceArthur Newton's- Rock Seat in the Comrades Marathon
… the resting place of many other brave runner's during the race! Arthur, the ‘Great Heart’ Newton- as he is fondly … 24 hours races. He also won the first…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… It triggered a chain of events, from the banning of liberation organisations, the launch of the armed struggle, … division between black and white South…
PlaceOrlando Stadium
… with a host of sporting greats and a venue for other sports. As well as entertainment and political events. In …
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
On 5 August 2019, Dale Steyn South African cricketer announced his retirement from the Test format. He made his Test debut against England in December 2004. In…
EventSamuel Tshabalala becomes the first black athlete to win the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades Marathon
… from all over the world every year to take part in the race. They run the 90 kilometers between the cities of … In 2008, more than 10 thousand athletes…
Address by President Jacob Zuma during the commissioning of the OR Tambo school of Leadership, 26 March 2010, Kaweweta, Uganda
… of normal life, they were allowed to participate in local sports leagues such as rugby, soccer, cricket and netball. … they could not complete it because in…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… language of their oppressors. Defying a law that banned “liberation protests” in a country where blacks were forced to … an inferior “Bantu” education, the…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… in the areas of dialogue, education, entrepreneurship, sports, arts and culture and research and publications. None … are also part of the National Heritage…
PlaceComrades Marathon, Durban-Pietermaritzburg
… of finally getting to run the Comrades! Generally, the race leaders start too fast and as a result they can pull the … The Comrades Marathon entries have hit…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… to social class and working class leadership of the liberation struggle. In these terms, the Azanian People's … conduct. It adopted an explicit, and…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… onslaught and sheds invaluable insight to an early liberation struggle against the encroachment of African land … the information is, serves as an example of…
ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
… Congress documents the workers' struggle for national liberation, democracy and socialism. Issues discussed include …
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… as fellow citizens of equal worth whatever the colour, race or creed of any one of them. This kind of South Africa … have fully identified themselves with…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… media, in ways that are revealing of attitudes towards “race”, apartheid and the role of the arts in Britain in the … international and South African…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… that Afrikaans was also employed as a language of liberation during Apartheid (by White and Black/Coloured … as an embarrassment: by this time, distinctions…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… long been joined. It is not the beginning of our fight for liberation, but the beginning of the end of our struggle. The … South Africa, free from all the…
Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… revolution is won; but what the thesis says on national liberation in Russia ("after the proletarien revolution") to … That is to say, down with the…
An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela
… government so that it can intensify its policies of race discrimination and oppression against all of us, whether … I greet the people of South West Africa…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… across the country. Students, community activists and liberation movement cadres launched attacks against the … the unconditional release of eight key…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… granted to the Bantustans over the next decades. While the liberation movement exposed and rejected ‘independence’ as a … ranks about their strategic…
PlaceFicksburg
… South African artists, including murals by Pierneef. Water sports and angling are enjoyed on the Meulspruit Dam, which …