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A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… Towards the end of 2015 I sent the communication below to a fellow African to respond to some comments he had made on the matter of ‘Mbeki, HIV & AIDS’. We…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… Julius Malema's recent comment, that he intended to "cut the throat of whiteness", by removing DA mayor Athol Trollip in Nelson Mandela Bay, I wrote on 7…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… 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 by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… own history embodies our country's past and its hopes for the future. In just over a century it has gone from a mining camp to become a key part of the East…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… Mr. Chairman, Members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I came on Thursday, having spent a whole week…
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… The Castle of Good Hope is the oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa. Built between 1666 and 1679, the castle replaced a small clay and timber…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… The evidence that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon … from first hand…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… This is an abridged version of the Deputy President's closing address Comrades and … guests. This consultative conference has been called by the National…
EventLord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape Colony, is born in Badminton, England
… Lord Charles Somerset, who became the British Governor at the Cape from 1814 to 1826, was born in Badminton England on … played an important role in British…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… clear in his visionary, successful attempts to transform the University of the Western Cape (UWC) from an apartheid "bush university" into the "intellectual…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… Richman is a final year English and Politics student at the University of York. From October 2015, he will read Law … of interdisciplinary research, his work…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… footballers played out their entire careers invisible to the world. Only after apartheid began unravelling did the newly unified South African Football…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
… Text of the letter from Lt General Berning Ntlemeza, National Head of … of Finance Pravin Gordhan, 19 February 2016 OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL HEAD DIRECTORATE…
ArchiveThe end conscription campaign 1983-1988: a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid
… Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject history at the University of South Africa. This … The end…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… published Native Life in South Africa, his great expose of the ruinous effects of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act. This legislation almost completely stripped…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… In the course of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid in Stockholm, I asked the Chairman, Ambassador Marof, to convey to Your…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… THE ROOM IS deeply silent, but robustly populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade…
EventFreak storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape and President Mandela narrowly escaped injury
… Tornadoes are rare in South Africa. Therefore, the radar equipment used to predict and track these killer storms are not in huge supply in the country,…
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… In 1950, the two major pieces of legislation designed to create the new 'apartheid (apart) city' were enacted, namely the Population Registration Act and the…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… December 1996, Groutville Comrade chairperson; Members of the Luthuli family; Minister and Premiers; Leaders and veterans of the ANC; Members of the…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu is known around the world for his vigorous stand against injustice. More particularly, he is renowned for his involvement in the…
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… Nine months after the Lari Massacre of 26 March 1953, twenty-four Kikuyu … were sentenced to death in Kenya for their part in the event. The unfortunate…
EventA school bus with seventy-six learners plunges into the Westdene dam, killing forty-two
… In the second worst bus accident in South African history, a … seventy-six learners of Hoërskool Vorentoe plunged into the Westdene Dam .The children were on…
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political … and socio-economic inequality. In order to address this, the African National Congress (ANC)…
"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959
… of African leaders, "Do we really want to get rid of the white man?" The following is the reply of Chief Lutuli.] My reply to the question is … "Should we…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… The Afrikaans language has its origins in Dutch. It developed … Dutch-speaking settlers and slaves in South Africa in the 17th century, and has many…
EventEmily Hobhouse receives a reply to her request to be included in the Ladies Commission
… a second letter to St John Rodrick asking for reasons for the War Department's refusal to include her in the Ladies Commission. If she cannot go, "it was due…
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950: One of the most infamous of all security laws during the apartheid era, it severely limited what the media could…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… winner, committed suicide just three months after winning the Pulitzer Award for feature photography of a controversial … in 1993. On 18 April, 1994, only 6…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), translated as "Spear of the Nation", was the active military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). It was formed in … Umkhonto…