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Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
(In a speech to the fifth session of the OAU Ad Hoc Committee on Southern Africa, Nelson Mandela dealt with the wave of violence in South Africa, and said that…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
BiographyLeigh Davids
Leigh Davids was born on 25 March 1979 in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. She was a transgender woman, and a prominent activist, who focused on the…
BiographyMalcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti
Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti was born in 1924 in the Kwalera district of the Eastern Cape. Very soon after he was born, his father moved to East London to…
EventSelassie returns to Ethiopia after attempted coup
Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie returned immediately to his country after a short successful coup launched on 13 December 1960 by the Imperial Bodyguard, the…
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
Cecil John Rhodes, prime minister of the Cape Colony, was severely censured for his involvement in the infamous Jameson Raid and forced to resign by the…
EventSA to host future Pan African Parliament
The third conference of the African Union (AU) meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, selected South Africa as the seat of the future Pan African Parliament (PAP)…
PlaceChapman's Peak Drive, Hout Bay to Fish Hoek
Chapman’s Peak is named after John Chapman, the Captain’s mate of an English ship, the 'Consent'. The Peak which can be seen from Hout Bay, was not named after…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
The Star reports that Bophuthatswana's administration has decided not to publish the findings of Mr Justice E.A.T. Smith, one-man commission of inquiry into…
EventHlubi Chief Langalibalele becomes one of the first Black activists to be tried and banished to Robben Island
While inhabiting the area near present day Estcourt in the Drakensberg foothills, Langalibalele- a hereditary chief of the Hlubi- was summonsed to…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
Question: Your guerrillas recently blew up fuel tanks at South Africa`s oil-from-coal processing plant at Sasolburg, and there have been attacks on police…
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
(Abridged text) For over fifty years the African National Congress has led the people of South Africa in the struggle for freedom. For over fifty years it has…
Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Joint Houses of Congress of the Republic Of Argentina
"Racial Crisis in South Africa". Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
Letter from the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa to [Revolutionary Communist Party?)28,6 March 1947
Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa", Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946
Letter from Workers' Party of South Africa to the Intemational Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L).
Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the Communist Leagueof South Africa, 3 March 1936
Letter from the International Secretariat of the International left Opposition to Johannesburg comrades, 23 October 1932
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd…
Rijkloff van Goens arrives in Table Bay to report on conditions at the Cape to the Directors of the Dutch East Indies and to fo
Appeal to the British People to Oppose the Visit of P.W. Botha: Open Letter to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, 21 May 1984
The decision of Mrs. Thatcher, Chancellor Kohl and other heads of government in Western Europe to invite P.W. Botha to visit a number of Western European…
EventVerney Cameron is first European to cross equatorial Africa
Verney Lovett Cameron entered the British navy in 1857, taking part in the Abyssinian campaign of 1868 and in the suppression of the East African slave trade…
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
On 14 May 1991, Winnie Nomzamo Mandela, the then-wife of Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannesburg court presided over by Justice…
ArchiveHawa Timol's testimony on Ahmed Timol at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
ArchiveA call to all: now is the time to take an active role in the struggle for human dignity
The call is made by students of the Cape Peninsular to join the fight for human dignity against the unjust apartheid system.
ArchiveAssessment report of NUSED to the 49th Congress of NUSAS, Rhodes University, November 30 to December 3, 1972
Report from the National Union of Students Education Department to the 49th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Rhodes University,…
Slaves to Racism An Unbroken Chain from America to Liberia by Benjamin G. Dennis and Anita K. Dennis
ArchiveJune 16 Memorial service: a theological rationale and a call to prayer for the end to unjust rule
Pamphlet for the 10 year commemorative June 16 Memorial Service. This pamphlet consists of songs including Nkosi sikekela i-Africa, prayers and sermons.