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Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… On the night of the 19th of November in the South African city of Durban, agents of the Pretoria regime brutally assassinated Griffiths Mxenge. … Statement…
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… Drew Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928 [....] Africa as a … I cannot say much about most of it,…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… weeks ago I reviewed Rob Eales’ book on Emily Hobhouse and the Boer War published by UCT Press in 2015 (The Compassionate Englishwoman - click here to view)…
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
… State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Joint Sitting of Parliament, … Cape Town 03 Jun 2009…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… South Africans have now become accustomed to the blatant falsehoods, deceits, relentless misinformation and unbridled malicious campaign, which is the basis…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the development … The South…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… We are a few days away from the celebration of one of our national holidays, Heritage Day. The opening of this exhibition of photographs by Omar Badsha and…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove…
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… you very much for making it possible for me to be part of the closing session of this important conference on disability, the Disability African Regional…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Political leader, Walter Ulyate Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a miner, … hand and was an active trade…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. … Unlike The…
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… The child is not dead the child raises his fists against his mother who screams Africa screams the smell of freedom and heather in the locations of the heart…
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 Congress…
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay MacDonald, 12 August, … & disappointed that nothing seems to…
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
… The formulation and declaration by the United Nations Organisation of human rights and the fundamental freedoms was a great achievement. It marked a … Call…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… Paul Sanford Methuen (b. 1845 d.1932) was the 3rd Baron Methuen and a soldier all his life. Before arriving in South Africa in 1899, he had served in the…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… South Africa due to two historical events that took place. The first of these was in 1838, when the Battle of Blood River took place between the Voortrekkers…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… and optimism that I stand before you today. Last year, we, the people of South Africa voted for freedom. We laid a … and human rights for all citizens. We…
EventB.J. Vorster, Minister of Justice, announces extensive security measures following the Sharpeville Massacre
… of Justice announced extensive measures to "ensure the safety of the state to the absolute maximum" in view of hottest developments … Justice, announces…
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… a new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps was established with the view of being dispatched to East Africa in 1916 to fight on…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… The Geneva Conventions, are comprised of four treaties and three protocols, which establish the standards of international law for the treatment of civilians…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… After the fall of Pretoria on 5 June 1900, the British maintained a favourable command of several strategic points in the Transvaal area. Western Transvaal…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of the Cape Town 'answer" to the Bolshevik Party (the Industrial Socialist League). Jewish Trade unionism…
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… by South Africa and Mozambique. Reporting about the tiny country usually focuses on its beautiful landscapes … ”” highly favoured by South African tourists ”…
Message by Albert Luthuli on the eve of Multi-Racial Conference, 1 November 1957
… Much has been said and written about the forthcoming multi-racial conference to be held in … at all of what is new, can be said about it now. But the need to…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… On 28 May 1976, the South African Student Movement (SASM) held a conference in Roodepoort. During the conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People…
EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… Sibeko began his political career as a journalist for the South African magazine Drum. Sibeko joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during the state of…
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… South African were the host of the Africa Cup of Nations Tournament in 1996. It was the national team, Bafana Bafana’s second appearance in the … Bafana…
Event20 000 Women march to the Union Buildings in protest of pass laws
… In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country's history, … Buildings on 9 August 1956, to present a petition against the carrying of passes by…
EventProfessional soccer is introduced in SA when the National Football League is founded
… de Football Association (FIFA) officially recognised the White body of the Football Association of South Africa (FASA) as the sole governing body of soccer…