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"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959
… [Drum, a Johannesburg monthly, asked a number of African leaders, "Do we really want to get rid of the white man?" The …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… South African prime minister P. W. Botha gathered business leaders together in a conference at the Carlton Hotel in …
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… that time she was the one of the most prominent women leaders in South Africa. She published more than forty books, …
EventFIFA World Cup is staged in Africa for the first time
… every week and 100.000 yellow cards sent to international leaders. The dramatic victory of Spain over Holland saw them …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… rather sceptical of the ANCYL and their ideas. The leaders who formed the ANCYL were, among others, Anton …
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… was led by several senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders, including South African Communist Party Secretary …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… - thereby crippling the apartheid system. Among the leaders of the UDF were Rev. Alan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, …
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… by Archbishop Tutu, Chairman, TRC, Military and Political leaders to give evidence before the TRC, 30 September 1997. … [Accessed: 7 October 2013]| info,'…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… not extend beyond a relatively small band of progressive leaders. Various objective factors, such as the structural …
PlaceRed Location Museum
… years of Apartheid. Many prominent Political and Cultural leaders were either born or lived in Red Location. (Some … History and Art. Many prominent…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… of the federation posited that Black workers were to be leaders and to have no formal affiliation with political …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… leadership in the response to the epidemic and society leaders dying and leaving a generation of children growing up …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… from owning shares in limited companies. Indian leaders in the Transvaal sign a covenant, pledging civil …
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party (NP),…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… also produces a signed document by South African Indian leaders, including Advocate Albert Christopher, P.R. Pather … Governments of India and South Africa…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… Although multiple news outlets published photos of the two leaders side-by-side, rumors spread that tensions were … of traditional authorities once…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
Nigeria's Federal Troops launched a major offensive against multiple targets in Biafra on the 19th of August 1968. Despite claims that scores of people were…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… It is not even a question of the good intentions of the leaders. What is of paramount importance is the programme and … it another way, it is not the…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… these are weapons that are customarily used against the leaders of the people's struggle for liberation. "New" … in which scores of the most active and…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… Youth League. Now, to the extent that former Youth League leaders had become absorbed into the reformism of the … liberals. "The Africans are asked, through…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… choices, both nationally and individually: a lodestar for leaders of substance and courage. Indeed, your strength lies … And yet we never faltered, and the…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… OAU, Comrade Hage Geingob of SWAPO of Namibia, Comrades leaders and members of SWAPO, the PLO, the ANC and the South … organisations of the people. We also…
President Julius Malema`s address to the KZN Provincial Congress, 22 May 2010
… work harder in appreciation that one of the founding leaders of the ANC Youth League is from this Province. … has always produced disciplined and dedicated…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… is said in so-called liberal circles about the "moderate leaders" of the black population who could help to reduce the … But they have thought of it too late…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… OAU, Comrade Hage Geingob of SWAPO of Namibia, Comrades leaders and members of SWAPO, the PLO, the ANC and the South … organisations of the people. We also…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… National and Provincial Youth Commissioners, Youth leaders and our esteemed youth, Members of the June 16th Foundation, Leaders of our political parties and…
Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, December 1964
… in the presence of Mr. Diallo Telli or at all. The PAC leaders, showing reckless disregard for the ultimate …
PlaceCity Hall, Pretoria
… Municipality. The two other statues are of the Voortrekker leaders Andries Pretorius and his son Marthinus Pretorius. …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… 1961. By 1963, the headquarters of MK were raided and its leaders were arrested. The Rivionia Trial followed in October …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… included St Peter's in Johannesburg, where many Black leaders, among them Oliver Tambo, had been educated. Reeves …