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Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We called each other ‘Madala’ – old … mutual trust, respect, liking and…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… Until that year the trial had gathered us all together in a sort of family circle, which filled the greater part of … My efforts turned now to the banished…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of the Rivonia offensive, coupled with the … the Party has…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… new, more draconian legislation – they played their part in weakening the liberation movement organizationally. One … Ishmail (later Chief Justice in the new…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… played by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA/SACP) in shaping SA’s culture of liberation. This issue has been under-studied … and ignored until today;…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… Day 1 Arrive in Kassel by train from Frankfurt and get off at the … and a man called Michele proves particularly helpful in finding me a place to stay -…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
… of endemic and widespread poverty and gross imbalances in levels of development and the distribution of wealth, … and 127 clinics built in the year 2000. In…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… they had been arrested. Each of us pleaded our innocence in our own language. I tried to make my plea loud and clear … prosecution and I thought of what…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… late Rev. Benjamin Rajuili who was a minister of religion in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and a teacher at a high school in Soweto, the first…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the banning, both parties were…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… the people of South Africa has occupied the front trenches in the struggle for the total emancipation of all the people … for freedom will take for granted,…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… new identities that goes beyond the rhetoric of the 1950s, in which much of our discourse is still frozen. 1 … 73 Rather it formed part of the vision of a…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… “a crime against humanity” (United Nations, edited 2018). In 1956, Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican priest, wrote the … organizations to oppose and end…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Conference of the Association of African Universities: Cape Town, 22 February 2005.
… and participants at this important Conference. You meet in our country at the beginning of the First Century of the … the elimination of the colour line as a…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… gains have been made since Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The first is that the old guard racists have in general come to realize that there is no…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… We are currently in the continent of Africa. The country located furthest … mentally, physically, and educationally. This results in the majority of the…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… training institution for the sons of chiefs and headmen in Nongoma, and tutored in Zulu customs privately at the … white nationalists, to stop the elections…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), King George Hotel, Athens, 24 February 2005.
… relationship that the ancient Greece and the ancient Egypt in particular shared for hundreds of years; a relationship which is noted in the writings of such…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… South Africa Question : Since the car bomb explosion in Pretoria there has been talk of a change of strategy by … been any change? TAMBO : There hasn`t been…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… of the challenge of good governance and stability. In most instances, these societies were multi-ethnic, … were a tiny minority. They were concentrated…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… 1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) … Matomela leads an anti-pass demonstration resulting in the burning of passes in…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… No.36, May 1959 South Africa belongs to all who live in if, black and white." - The Freedom Charter. "All the Bantu have their permanent homes in the…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… our friends abroad, Comrades, I should like to be as brief in what I have to say as is my visit to Tanzania and to this district, in particular to this…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… our friends abroad, Comrades, I should like to be as brief in what I have to say as is my visit to Tanzania and to this district, in particular to this…
Chapter 14
… returned to the dummy council, but were more than ever in a state of suspended animation. There had been a change of … at the expense of the unity of the…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… under Emperor Menelik II, defeats invading Italian army in the Battle of Adwa. Lumière brothers' demonstration of projected moving photographic images in…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… under Emperor Menelik II, defeats invading Italian army in the Battle of Adwa. Lumière brothers' demonstration of projected moving photographic images in…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre, when … their movements. After the first…
PlaceKyalami Grand Prix Circuit
… The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is situated in Midrand in the Province of Gauteng . It is ideally positioned between … of the popular World Superbike…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
… Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President on 10 May 1994. All over the world the ANC … replaced those of the old regime. Our Chief Representative in London,…