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Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
We are marking two important occasions in the history of our protracted struggle at a time when the revolutionary fervour amongst all sections of the black…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
We are marking two important occasions in the history of our protracted struggle at a time when the revolutionary fervour amongst all sections of the black…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against Apartheid We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against apartheid! We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
1997 marks the 85th anniversary of the ANC. We are now also just over half way through the first term of the ANC`s national electoral mandate. It is important…
PlaceEritrea
Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa located on the Red Sea. A fact reflected in its name, which is an Italianized version of; 'Mare Erythraeum'. Which…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
During the Apartheid regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South African Police force. He acted as the commander of a counter-insurgency group located on…
First Raymond Mhlaba Annual Memorial Lecture delivered by the President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, 22 August 2008, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Programme Director, Mrs Dideka Mhlaba and the Mhlaba Family, Chancellor of the NMMU, Judge Pius Langa, Chairperson of the NMMU`s Council, Judge Ronnie…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin In the early nineteen twenties the Indian problem had not assumed…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
The events which led to mass detentions in April 1960 were the following: A state of emergency was called after anti-pass demonstrations at Sharpeville, Langa…
Address by President at the official opening of the new bridge over the Limpopo River at Beit Bridge Beit Bridge, 24 November 1995
Your Excellency President Robert Mugabe; Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen. The people of South Africa and Zimbabwe share a long history going…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s statement at the dinner hosted by Prime Minister Bildt of Sweden 20 May 1992
Prime Minister Bildt, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests, My visit to Sweden, the Venice of the north, has been rewarding indeed. It is truly a…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
Steve Biko was born in King Williams Town and began his political career as the co-founder of the all-black South African Student's Organization (SASO). It was…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Nosipho Majeke was the pen-name of Dora Taylor. She worked in the liberatory…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
I now turn to examine select aspects of SASO's organisation and its activities related to student and popular mobilisation and collective action. However,…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) conference in Johannesburg. Boesak…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and had offices in Botswana, England, the…
Statement of the ANC Veterans League Inaugural National Conference, 6 December 2009
For the past three days, the veterans and stalwarts of our glorious movement – some in wheelchairs and walking sticks, others still able to stride - converged…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
Honourable Speaker, Honourable Deputy President, Honourable Members, Thank you very much for the opportunity given to us to present the Presidency budget…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
Madala, as you light-heartedly started calling me some years ago, it both grieves me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of experts for the support of victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle, 09 April 1973, OSLO
Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle [Oliver Tambo, speaking on behalf of all liberation movements, thanked the Government of Norway for its…
Mobilise World Support for African Liberation Struggle - Statement, on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 9 April 1973
[Oliver Tambo, speaking on behalf of all liberation movements, thanked the Government of Norway for its hospitality. He specially praised the Norwegian…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal will take place across…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
The Façade Finally Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation. After the…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
These are extracts from a press conference given by Nelson Mandela to foreign and local journalists, the first since his release on Sunday 11 February 13…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union…