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Archive2009 - President Motlanthe, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2009 (Before National Elections)
… that we should indeed, in the words of the Freedom Charter, open ever wider “the doors of learning and of … preparing for the implementation of the African…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
In July 1967, the University Christian Movement (UCM) held its founding congress in Grahamstown, with about 90 clergymen and students in attendance. The…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Honourable Ministers, Premiers, Deputy Ministers, MECs and Mayors, Honourable Leaders of political parties represented in…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
In the early hours of 22 September 1979, an American Vela satellite recorded a double flash of light over the southern Indian Ocean, near South Africa's Prince…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
Winnie Mandela and Fatima Meer were in prison together and became close friends. Winnie wrote an introduction to the book "Fatima Meer: Memories of Struggle,"…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
Introduction To someone cut off from friends and relatives, restricted to seeing only a selected few people and even these not as frequently as in normal…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… Johannesburg to adopt what came to be known as the Freedom Charter - the first major programmatic statement of aims and …
SAHO Milestones
… community histories. Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter : A booklet compiled by SAHO for the Department of …
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… by the policy of the organisation set out in the Freedom Charter . As members of the ANC engaged in the anti-apartheid …
The Bill of Rights
The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins at Article 7. 7. RIGHTS 1. This Bill…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
President of the National Assembly; Your Excellency, President Jose dos Santos; Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, I come to this…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
80 Harrington Street, Cape Town. 16th June, 1948 My dear Mandela, Now to the discussion on the question of organisation, which is every day assuming greater…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as the…
ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how it would be opposed, offers a moment…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… of the People campaign and the adoption of the Freedom Charter demonstrated its intention to crush what had … with the basic provisions of our programme -…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner,…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
Prehistory of Southern AfricaFarming people did not inhabit the Greater Johannesburg region until the Late Iron Age. Then, beginning in the 15th century,…
Constitution of the African National Congress (South Africa), January 1958
… South Africa on the principles outlined in the Freedom Charter. To support the cause of national liberation and the …
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
This is the obituary of Hermanus Loots, better known by his nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities in the ANC’s Quatro prison camp. Martin …
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
22 December 1996, Groutville Comrade chairperson; Members of the Luthuli family; Minister and Premiers; Leaders and veterans of the ANC; Members of the…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
From the 2nd to the 7th July 1991, 2,244 delegates representing 760,000 members met in the 48th National Conference of the African National Congress. This…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
This school was declared a National Monument. Pretoria Boys High School, also known as 'Boys High'. It is a public, tuition charging, English medium boys high…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 93 S. B., "Unite Against Reaction and…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
ALBERTI, Ludwig. 1968. Account of the Tribal Life and Customs of the Xhosa in 1807. Translated by Dr William Fehr. Cape Town: AA Balkema. ALEXANDER, James…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… our unity around the demands contained in the Freedom Charter, around the perspective of a united, democratic and … workers into the Cosatu unions and…
ANC Today Volume 10 No.1, 15 - 21 January 2010
… also be commemorating the 55th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, while the year also marks the 50th Anniversary of …
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… to make a reality of the war aims and the United Nations Charter . United Nations At UN, delegates of the peoples of …
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
… National Minimum Wage is envisaged in the Freedom Charter. The decision by key role players, being business and …
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
Your death has come way too soon; none of us could say, with a straight face, that we were prepared for it. Therefore, please forgive us if we appear too…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The era of destabilisation entered its third year in…