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”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… country. I also take it as your tribute to the gallantry and heroism of those men and women who for the last two years elected to suffer rather … It was the…
Chapter 7
… 1943, has decided to respond to the call of the people, and submits to the coming conference of the A.A.C. the … "When a man finds that he has taken the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
… agreement? TAMBO : The liberation war in Zimbabwe is part and continuation of the liberation wars which the peoples of southern Africa have waged against…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
… agreement? TAMBO : The liberation war in Zimbabwe is part and continuation of the liberation wars which the peoples of southern Africa have waged against…
Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa’s “Attracting Capital to Africa” Summit, 19-22 April 1997; Chantilly Virgiana, USA
… Chairperson, Honourable Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen It is not given to every generation that it should be present during and participate in the act of…
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
… 28 years ago that FW became leader of the National Party and he won against Barend du Plessis. Has Barend du Plessis … he said that was one of the highlights…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela on Women’s Day, Pretoria, 9 August 1996
… Chairperson; Ministers; Guests; Friends and compatriots. When the women of South Africa converged on … they vowed to a stubborn oppressor that they would…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… leading a mass strike in 1909. This cost him his job, and he went to work on the Johannesburg tramways. These were … with a powerful presence amongst the…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
… (NDCA) on 4 February 2012 to hear evidence in mitigation and aggravation of sanction in the cases involving comrades Sindiso Magaqa, Floyd Shivambu and…
Closing Address by President Nelson Mandela in the Debate on the State of the Nation Address Parliament, Cape Town, 10 February 1999
… Speaker; Honourable Members; Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen: It was to be expected that this year's debate … mind's eye back on the whole short…
PlaceSudan
… northern Sudan ) periodically came under Egyptian rule, and it was part of the kingdom of Cush from the 11th century … Egypt had conquered all of the Sudan…
Statement by Nelson R. Mandela on his relationship with his wife 13 April 1992
… The relationship between myself and my wife, Comrade Nomzamo Winnie Mandela, has become the … I am issuing this statement to clarify the position and in the…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… is spurred by his many years as a pastor to the exiled and destitute in the inner-city of Pretoria. It was during … time, that he became acutely aware of the…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… We here present and many thousands elsewhere are grateful to the Legal … democratic South Africa. Bram Fischer was a great advocate and a great patriot. The…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… of the Council during the last month of this eventful year and on the eve of what we believe will be declared … Indeed, we are singularly happy that you, a…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… tells you it's Christmas, it's not what you're used to and you can't just start celebrating for nothing. Some youths did go around shouting 'Happy Christmas'…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… Moya is currently a full member of PAC provincially, and is still an activist in his community in Langa. He is also an executive member of the Langa Arts…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… chose to remain after their 4 year contracts had ended and brought their families to come over, from India to Durban and started their new lives as store…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… government introduced the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950, the … the Communist Party of South Africa, the…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… of an extended consultative conference at which the Party and other sections of the liberation movement were represented by delegates with full participation…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… Father Frans Claerhout, acclaimed artist, priest and humanitarian was born on this day in Pittem, western … State, where he worked among the black people…
EventChief Kausobson Kausob is killed
… of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth century, Kausobson … to farmers in exchange for amongst other…
EventSouth African History Online goes live
… Badsha founded the organisation as a Section 21 non-profit and launched its website two years later. Since then SAHO has popularised history in South Africa…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Government and the public organisations of this country. We have also … 7th, a very important holiday for the…
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
… which embodied the noble ideals of unity in diversity, and tolerance and respect for all our cultures and religions. In paying this tribute, through me, to…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
… After the expulsion of metalworkers union Numsa and the Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, they argued that these were isolated troublemakers and…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… Art Institute of Chicago. Entitled "Trade Routes: History and Geography," the biennial took as its general theme the … Gerardo Mosquera, Octavio Zaya, Hou…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… Your Royal Highness The Lord Mayor and Mayoress My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen Esteemed guests: We feel privileged that we have the possibility to attend…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Act 35 of 1906, which dealt with hawkers' … Siroonul & Co. of Cape Town, G…