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"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… law or constitution which, as envisaged in our Freedom Charter, will destroy the apartheid system in all its …
OAU-AU 50th Anniversary Lecture by ANC President Jacob Zuma East London, 26 October 2013
… ideals of the founding fathers enshrined in the founding charter have been realised. For as long as these ideals which …
Tribute by Comrade David Makhura delivered at the funeral service of Comrade Chilly Magagula, 16 October 2010
… our movement and build a society envisioned in the Freedom Charter. His wife and children are part of the bigger ANC …
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… defenders of the principles embodied in the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They …
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… Botswana. Consistent with the lofty principles of the OAU Charter, the countries of southern Africa have refused to …
Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
… of absolute equality, which in the words of the Freedom Charter "belongs to all who live in it; black and white." …
Address at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, 4 March 2003
… all local governments to discuss endorsement of the Earth Charter; Develop effective and transparent local governance, …
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… of South African Women, the launching of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown. In 1956 we organised twenty thousand …
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle in Cape Town, which he shared with Ari…
PlaceSeal Island
Hout Bay has now become well known as the port of departure for scenic day trips to Seal island or Duiker Island, home to a colony of thousands of Cape Fur…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
The vault is huge, well looked after, with a fence that nobody can cross! It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married,…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… memorable meeting was a report back on the Freedom Charter to the people of Ermelo, Gert Sibande territory. On … well. I was asked to speak and I went…
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
On 2 September 2014, Advocate Pansy Tlakula announced her resignation as Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). She submitted her letter of…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… Nations Organisation in 1945 and the adoption of its Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is … carrying out the noble tasks that are…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 97th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2009
… to education derives its inspiration from the Freedom Charter. The charter says; Education shall be free, compulsory, universal …
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… a defense of the nationalization clauses of the Freedom Charter, published in 1956. The Freedom Charter, Mandela argued, was "by no means a blueprint for a …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… with its own supporters. The disrespect of South Africa’s charter was the force that fueled the initial six women into …
PlaceSt George’s Anglican Cathedral, Cape Town
The Cathedral of St George the Martyr stands at the bottom of Parliament Street in Cape Town and was erected to provide a place of worship for English settlers…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith visits the United States, challenging officials to support his plan for the transition of government in the country.
After declaring in 1976 that there would never be majority rule in Rhodesia, "not in a thousand years," Ian Smith reluctantly began to yield to diplomatic…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
On 2 February 1990, the National Party government unbanned political parties, released many political prisoners and detainees, and unbanned many people,…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… the women’s march There were demands listed in the Freedom Charter There were anti-pass defiance campaigns People were …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY ON 16 NOVEMBER TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS INDENTURED LABOUR HERITAGEBy Brij Maharajhttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… the increased wealth that trade brought to the economy. A charter is a document giving authority to companies to take …
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… also had a programme of democratic demands – the Freedom Charter was yet to come. About this time Father Sidebotham, … of the People in Kliptown for the…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on International Relations, 27-30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… and the world which is also expressed in the Freedom Charter, the conference that the organisation should always …
Statement at the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 21 February 1986
… of our people support the demands contained in the Freedom Charter. Similarly, none can be confused about the enormous …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… movement. They relived the debatesabout the Freedom Charter, the Defiance Campaign, the debate and decision on …
President Julius Malema`s address to the KZN Provincial Congress, 22 May 2010
… Luthuli, who spearheaded the adoption of the Freedom Charter, is also from this Province. The current President of …