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Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… the kind of society that is visualised in the Freedom Charter, we have to break down and destroy the old order. We …
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
… and respect for the Declaration on Human Rights and the UN Charter, that the United Nations should have spurned the …
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
… by the women of our country who said in The (1954) Women's Charter, "We, the women of South Africa hereby declare our …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the National Council of Provinces, Limpopo, 4 November 2005
… society consistent with the vision espoused in the Freedom Charter. I thank you for your attention. …
Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial,…
The strangulation of activity
… forced removals. Outdoor rallies, e.g. celebrating Freedom Charter Day. Indoor public meetings and conferences, e.g. …
EventThe birth of the Treatment Action Campaign
On 10 December 1998, International Human Rights Day, a group of about 15 people protested on the steps of St George's Cathedral in Cape Town to demand medical…
ArchiveThe Soul of a Nation
'Laws do not make a better society, people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution' …
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought begins in Southern Africa resulting in the Mahlatule famine. This resulted…
Bibliographical note and further reading
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai For the serious researcher investigating any aspect…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… arrest in Johannesburg” to the “copy of the Freedom Charter that had dropped off the wall” in her Durban home. …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
Webinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors: Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza The Making of the Trotskyist Tradition in South Africa: A…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… This seminal document was a precursor to the Freedom Charter, the ANC’s Constitutional Guidelines and the … for the realisation of this demand of the Freedom…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… in general. We have to live the promise of the Freedom Charter, which states amongst others, that all our people … FET institutions. In line with the vision…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… to follow steps to try and ensure the following of the UN Charter inside South Africa. In 1961 United Nations …
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… on both the company’s Social and Labour Plans and Mining Charter targets. Fellow South Africans, Honourable Members, …
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
1. WHEREAS there existed in the Provinces of the Union of South Africa several small and Independent Associations, Organisations or Vigilant Committees each…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
Abstract Despite John Maxwell Coetzee’s Disgrace being the most critically engaged with novel in the South African canon, there remains an…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
Abstract: Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana was a South African jazz pianist and alto saxophonist from Port Elizabeth. Due to rising political oppression imposed by the…
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman South Africa can heave a collective sigh of relief that…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Second Annual Raymond Mhlaba Memorial Lecture, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 12 October 2009, Port Elizabeth
… is articulated in key policy documents such as the Freedom Charter and the Strategy and Tactics of the ANC. The …
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… looking. By the same measure, the adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1955, during a time of great oppression and …
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… and promoting the objectives contained in both the UN Charter and the Declaration on Human Rights. Failure on the …
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… the drafters of our lodestar policy document, The Freedom Charter when they said: “Let those who love their people and …
Pretoria Socialist Society
… it will be found that they conform to the United Nations Charter and the international Declaration of Human Rights. If …
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
Dr Gordon was Personnel Officer during 1974 at a mine near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine:…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 wounded. At about 7:30pm, on Sunday 25th July, while the…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… • We demand the university adopt the October 6 Workers Charter • We also want to secure and ensure that all workers … 7) “The University commits to drawing…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… The Constitution, which has its foundation in the Freedom Charter, proclaims that South Africa belongs to all who live …