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Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… invited to make this keynote address to this congress. In the eighty one years of the life of our movement, this is … grievances of the majority of South…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… the African National Congress was a live organization in that part of the country. His name and that of the late … South Africa is just as bad for the…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… bearer was a British national and a resident of Toronto. In fact, he was Solomon Plaatje, the first secretary-general … and author one of the first novels…
Bonakele Mali Khana
… of 616 South Africans that died when the SS Mendi sank in 1917. …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… approach. Africanist - An ideology that says that black people should determine their own future - Africa for … It was first expressed by a Xhosa missionary,…
BiographyMargaret Mncadi
… Margaret Mncadi was born in the Eastern Transvaal, and obtained a degree at Fort Hare … first president of the ANC’s Women’s League in KwaZulu-Natal …
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the SANCC in 1912. John Dube was its first president, and the well … founding members. Formed in protest of…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… care of all problems relating to the internal situation in South Africa; it plans and executes or plans and carries … ask you what your relationship in South…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… important day. It is an honour to speak to South Africans in this House and in their homes and viewing centres around … other components of the liberation…
ArticleSocialism
… Engels, developed the idea of socialism and wrote about it in detail. The core tenets of socialism are that it advocates … a more equal and just society. The…
BiographyDr Martin Luther King jr
… American Civil Rights leader, influential and inspirational in many African lives For an excellent and richly linked … Civil rights activist in the United…
Philemon A. Mahlakola
… Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in Mozambique on 11 November 1979. … National Congress. (1996). List of ANC Members who Died in…
Ben Vusi Mahlangu
… Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in Angola on 11 November 1982. … National Congress. (1996). List of ANC Members who Died in Exile…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… must be heard, and old fighters given their rightful place in the annals of struggle in this country. As one of the … - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence
… minister of the self-governing British colony of Rhodesia in 1964. In keeping with the postwar trend toward … independence, but only on the basis of giving…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… of the African National Congress, I have great pleasure in submitting to you, for your approval and adoption, the … the review has disclosed a most serious…
PlaceSterkfontein Dam, Free State
… few kilometers from the edge of the Drakensberg Escarpment in the topmost reaches of the Vaal Dam catchment on the … and you could spot Cape and bearded…
EventClements Kadalie dies
… known by his adopted name, Clements Kadalie, was born in April 1896, near the Bandawe mission station in Nyasaland, … to protect the rights of workers,…
EventUmkhonto we Sizwe bombs Church Street, Pretoria
… One of South Africa’s deadliest terror attacks took place in Church Street, Pretoria, in 1983, when Umkhonto we Sizwe … of 17 men and 2 women, of which 9…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… History reveals that there is evidence of YCL activities in Johannesburg and Cape Town in 1921. Edward Roux , who was … strike, there were several clashes…
Andrew Majane
… (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). He was killed in Angola during a Unita raid. … Death in exile …
Maduna Abednego
… prison number was 1/5392. He was from Zwelithsa Township in King Williamstown. …
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
… African American tennis player who was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia died on 6 February 1993. He died of … This was after a number of refusals. He…
Dr Daniel Alexander Jordaan
… Dr Daniel “Danny” Jordaan was born on 3 September 1951 in Port Elizabeth. He is a renowned sports administrator and … Danny Jordaan was awarded the Order of…
A growing urban African population
… of factories were being established and were growing in size. More and more Africans moved to the city. As the African working class grew in Johannesburg,…
BiographyLeslie Sonny Thuso Monnanyane
… Monnanyane was born in 1928. He was a labourer. He joined the African National …
BiographyJoseph Royeppen
… in 1910, Joseph Royeppen, a Cambridge University graduate and …
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral homes in Africa The majority of the political activists of the … he had founded the Universal Negro…
Bheki Magubane
… Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in a South African Defence Force (SADF) raid into Mozambique … National Congress. (1996). List of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 89th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2001
… the African National Congress. On this important day in our country's history and our national calendar, the … had no health care facilities. It also entails…