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Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… have gathered here today to pay tribute to the brave women freedom fighters who marched on the Union Buildings on 9 … both before and after 9 August 1956, to…
Message by Albert Luthuli to Asian-African Conference, 7 April 1955, Bandung
… point of view of the African and Asian people for peace, freedom and democracy for all peoples. We are living in a …
EventThe body of the former president Nelson Mandela is taken to the Union buildings in Pretoria.
… other places allocated for the body viewing which include Freedom Park, Salvokop, the palace of Justice and the Nelson …
ArchiveSelf rule in the Transkei: a monstrous fraud
… the Republic of South Africa. The Unity Movement and the freedom fighters' would like to see the effective and …
Document 9 - Letter from W. H. Andrews to Tom Mann,” 26 December 1922
… and hundreds of key individuals remain restricted. 2. Freedom of assembly, movement, association and speech and …
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… Congress of People met at Kliptown in 1955 to endorse the Freedom Charter and was an attack on the Charter. …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… system under apartheid. In addition to restricting the freedom of mobility of the migrant worker and his family, it …
EventPope John Paul II visits Africa
… defender of human rights, workers rights and religious freedom. He called for the creation of a new world economic …
EventThe ANC leader in the KwaZulu Natal midlands, Sifiso Nkabinde, is expelled from the ANC
… African National Congress (ANC) members and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members in KwaZulu Natal. After his …
EventJomo Kenyatta, believed to be Mau Mau leader, is convicted
… This happened at Lari in Kiambu region, Kenya when Mau Mau freedom fighters attacked the area. Among the casualties was …
Ikwezi
… with long histories of devotion to the struggle for freedom in Southern Africa". Ikwezi claimed to work within …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… twenty-five years has offered them the alternative of the Freedom Charter. In terms of that Charter, it is the people … They have not paid any heed to this…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… and the people of South Africa's quest for justice and freedom. In each occasion there is an affirmation that by … advancing knowledge we can extend the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving and Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University Boston, 18 September 1998
… who materially and morally supported our struggle for freedom and justice. Together with those freedom- and justice-loving citizens of the world, we do at ……
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… 1944 Document 10 - Y. M. Dadoo , "The Non-European Unity", Freedom, 4,1, February 1945 Document 11 - Peter … Chapter XIX Document 14 - "Short History of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 83th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1995
… and Deepen Democracy "...We have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We … but to live in a way that respects and enhances…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… Dr. Xuma's attack to indicate his methods. He attacks the Freedom Charter without indicating a single clause or phrase … in the "World" that the Free State A…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day
… to the secretary of the prime minister, the women sang a freedom song: Wathint` abafazi, Strijdom! Since then, the …
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… to the people of Great Britain to strike a blow for freedom and justice in South Africa and for those whom the … oppose apartheid it will have struck that…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… a daughter of our soil who dedicated her life to the freedom of our people. Together with all South Africans, the … and determination served as inspiration…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… White get involved to the point of risking his life for freedom for Black South Africans. What happened to his … story of passion and the effects of…
Education for Service
… patriotism and loyalty, pursuing amidst our diversity, freedom, equality and security for all irrespective of race, … human rights, freedoms and civil…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… affront on white supremacy. It was the decade in which the Freedom Charter, the central document of the anti-racist … 1954 Peter Abrahams published his…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… Ngoyi was upbeat in her report and her reminder that freedom was not easily won. Nevertheless, bad times were near … that we got from Zambia and Tanzania; we…
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… the continuous extension of the frontiers of the freedom. The acid test of the legitimacy of the programmes we … is therefore to help establish a social…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… were the prohibitions, which drastically curtailed my freedom and changed my life. All this was for five years. No … together in our common commitment to our…
ANC media statement on comrade Carl Niehaus, 10 July 2009
… the struggle for the liberation of South Africa. Like all freedom fighters, he has suffered. The situation in which he …
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… throughout the Arab World as a symbol of Arab dignity and freedom. A number of his policies were a response to …
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… racial groups together. It was a clear case of suppressing freedom of speech and assembly, as both of these rights would …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… against apartheid and its dangers to African education, freedom of movement, land and residential rights, and …