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ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… in the mid-1960’s described it as the ‘polecat of the world’. It was a term that stuck in the political discourse. … was without doubt the most influential…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… leaders; Traditional leaders, Comrades and friends; Fellow South Africans; I am deeply honoured, proud and humbled to be … Day. This gesture confirms what…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… Gaborone, Mbabane and countless towns and cities in South Africa and Namibia have each had their share of … democracy and peace and the other, oppression,…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… Twenty thousand women of all races, from all parts of South Africa, were massed together in the huge stone … on the need for a women's organisation, on the…
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside and outside of South Africa, the workers, peasants, students and indeed all … West and is a member of the largest…
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
… was one of the highlights of his life and ours because as South Africans in 1989, it was a pretty gloomy time if you … constitution of which we are proud of…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… a town of around 14 000 people about 80 miles south-west of Johannesburg. Mofutsanyana branded … during the economic disruptions of the Anglo-Boer War and…
BiographyLloyd Spencer
… Lloyd Spencer was born in South Africa in 1955. As a teenager, he had developed and printed … photographer André Kertész (1894-1985). In 1981 and ’82 South…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… of this vast population of young people who came here from South Africa at different times, some of them from other … dedication and skill, a monument to the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… the 1950s. There has never been a more violent regime in South Africa, but we stuck to our nonviolence. But as the … army was mobilised on a scale not seen…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… more radical in its attitude to apartheid after the Second World War and Kajee held moderate views. Kajee, the former Secretary General of the South African…
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
… remarked: “The Black Sash was the conscience of White South Africa.” Newton Thompson’s conscience is seen through her … with other members of the Black Sash,…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… much to do with Europe’s interaction with the ‘rest of the world’. [3] Thus, central to the project of European … associations were established in many…
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
… reality of apartheid violence out of sight, the issue of South Africa would drift out of the minds of the … realised. The question of apartheid will not drop…
Botha's British Allies by O. R. Tambo(Observer), London, 10 November 1985
… reality of apartheid violence out of sight, the issue of South Africa would drift out of the minds of the … realised. The question of apartheid will not drop…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… made by the young Gandhi soon after he arrived in South Africa in 1893, long before he came to know the … As Nelson Mandela had said in February 2007: “In a…
PlaceRehoboth
… more than 20 years but in 1914, following the outbreak of World War I, Germany's use of Baster Soldiers to guard South African Prisoners, led them to revolt…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
… in progressive politics. [2] Recognized as a white South Africans during Apartheid , Mary and Ben Turok gave up … against apartheid during the 1950s as a…
ArticleKey sites
… even in India. The story goes that the sugar produced in South Africa gave the sweetmeats in this country a unique … to her son the Prince Imperial who was…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… non-governmental organizations, who have been active in South Africa, particularly since 1976. And we’re quite keen … of the conflict in South Africa, would…
PlaceLeliefontein
… The Village is steeped in Wartime History: During the South African War - (also known as the Anglo-Boer War ), it was the site of … tell him to drop the…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… wool trading firm. It was not long until he returned to South Africa, where he settled and worked as a stock broker … with an order of honour for services…
PlaceComrades Marathon- 'House' or Museum
… is one of only three dedicated road-running Museums in the World, first opened its doors to the public in 1988 in the … Human Race, the Comrades Marathon was…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be described as the … of their land. The conflict led to the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1994.
… our country. When the day of liberation dawns, then shall South Africa, at last, say farewell to over three centuries … will, at the same time, be saying…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… of this vast population of young people who came here from South Africa at different times, some of them from other … dedication and skill, a monument to the…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… HEARD: The ANC is officially portrayed in South Africa as a communist, terrorist-type organisation, … is really going to be something we can put out to the…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… where I am a professor, or over the ways of seeing the world shared by so many of us still living in the ruins of … an acorn on the banks of the Orange river…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… West and produce balanced Africans. The speaker touched on South African history to focus the attention of the audience … of Western civilisation among Non…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… deliberation aside. The city is Johannesburg, the country South Africa, and the time the last years of the colonial era … or other of the nineteenth-century…