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… of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and uses) for further research about South African History. … is a joint project between South…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… Committee of the South African Communist Party, written and signed hours before his death, September 19, 1983] Dearest Comrades and Colleagues, It is with…
Address to the World Council of Churches Harare 12 December 1998
… Presidents of the WCC The General Secretary Delegates and members of the WCC Distinguished Guests It is a great … in activating the conscience of the world…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina Buenos Aires, 23 July 1998
… Vice-President of the Republic of Argentina and President of the Senate; President of the Chamber of Deputies; Honourable Senators and Deputies; Your…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church Umtata, 18 September 1994
… for me also a personal home-coming, both in the physical and spiritual sense. The environs of Umtata are not only my … my spiritual association with this…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… we Sizwe, Esteemed representatives of governments and political parties, Excellencies, members of the … Corps, Distinguished guests, Fellow delegates, …
ArchiveAcknowledgements by Howard Barrell
… thanks to Ronnie Kasrils - King Kong, friend, commander and the greatest hairy one of them all - who planted the seed for this study, cleared the way for it…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… Robben Island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. Today it is a World Heritage Site and museum, a poignant reminder to the newly…
PlaceCape St Francis, Eastern Cape Peninsula
… settlement of Oyster Bay lies some 20 km to the west, and Humansdorp , the agricultural centre of the district, … village of St Francis Bay lies about 7 km…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the SOWETO Uprising on 16 June 1976 16 June 1994
… of National Unity Honourable Provincial Premiers and cabinet members Leaders of political parties Leaders of the various youth organisations Comrades and…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (referred to as the 'Ghetto' … the next document). The Natal Indian…
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… Presiding Officers of our Houses of Parliament Ministers and Deputy Ministers Leaders of Political Parties … we resolved to overcome the legacy of our…
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… doing it now for, I’ve been doing this project for two-and-a-half years and its involved a number of people at Wits and it’s also an international project,…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… i.e. Africans must struggle for development, progress and national liberation so as to occupy their rightful and honourable place among nations of the world;…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… by Umkhonto we Sizwe on a military camp of the regime and on its personnel inside South Africa. Does this, Comrade … to take the offensive on all fronts; to…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… Chairperson Your Majesties and Your royal Highnesses Distinguished Secretaries General of the OAU and the United Nations Honourable Ministers and Ambassadors…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for service had seen the world outside their own country and had everywhere met people who strongly opposed the South African race hatred. The men and women…
Constitution of the ANC
… OBJECTS: The aims of the Congress shall be: (a) To protect and advance the interest of all Africans in all matters … from all discriminatory laws whatsoever…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the launch of COP 17 Legacy Projects in Groutville, Kwazulu-Natal, 08 December 2011
… Honourable Premier, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Mayors and councilors, Representatives of United Nations agencies, … home to one of the most outstanding…
EventWorld War II: The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach port
… nine-day evacuation, the largest of its kind in history and an unexpected success, saved 338,000 Allied troops from … the West, storming into Belgium,…
PlaceSomalia
… just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and occupies an important geopolitical position between sub-Saharan Africa and the countries of…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
… The new assault on civil liberties and democracy generally made by the General Law Amendment … of South Africa, has rightly shocked the democratic world and…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… Last month, the Harvard Art Museums reopened, and with them another addition to Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and…
"If I were Prime Minister": Article by Albert Luthuli, 2 December 1961
… people will be able to take an adequate part in government and a full and responsible share in administration; ownership and control of industry and other…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… the old paths which in the past have led to division and dissention ...or we .follow the only course which has … world -that is, of destroying this system of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… we all know, the children of Soweto, Mamelodi, Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… we all know, the children of Soweto, Mamelodi, Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the…
PlaceFort Cox
… of occupation" established by the British military in 1835 and was named in honour of Major William Cox of the 75th Regiment and a former Officer Commanding…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths and the end of the…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths and the end of the…