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“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… the pleasure of being a close associate and comrade-in-arms of Dr Naicker - MONTY to all of us - in the political arena for the last forty years, it can be ……
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… been articulated eloquently by our illustrious leaders in the past, providing us with the blueprint on which to base … When welcoming the formation of this…
Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 2017
… of this eminent centre of learning, teaching and research. In this context I would like to salute my immediate … University and our system of higher…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… obvious result of the mobilization of the people, will be in any case only an empty shell, a crude and fragile travesty … of what it might have been. The…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… Allan Boesak, clergyman and politician, is born in Kakemas in South Africa. When other Black political leaders were arrested or in exile Boesak established…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… Five civilians were killed and forty injured in a bomb explosion in the Sanlam shopping centre in Amanzimtoti , Natal South Coast. Umkhonto we Siswe (MK) …
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… work. Over the course of her life, she has written in almost every genre, and has been published in at least 13 different languages. She continues to win ……
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… Have you ever expressed any views yourself in regard to the advantages or disadvantages of a non-violent … do you consider there are any advantages to be…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… Artist George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… exploitation of elephant herds on a massive scale began in the 1970s. Organized gangs of poachers used automatic … tusks through several African countries to…
EventBafana Bafana loses to Germany
… Bafana played against the German national soccer team in an international friendly match, in Dusseldorf in Germany. The game was part of Bafana Bafana's…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal’s first ministry as Prime Minister
… as a loyal Natalian, first came to South Africa as a child in 1850. He later became a journalist and political leader, … George Robinson. He became the owner…
Address at the National War College Abuja, Nigeria 8 December 2003
… Institutions such as yours play an important part in preparing our officers to assume their proper role as peacemakers and peacekeepers, as envisaged in the…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… a bearing on the type of future leadership we must seek. In the normal course of events someone acquitted of a criminal charge should be left in peace and in…
PlacePaternoster, West Coast
… on whites Dunes, and of Bokkoms (dried Fish), drying in the wind. Paternoster, one of the Oldest Villages in the West Coast Area encapsulating this sun…
Archive1996 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 1996
… Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen; Today in the streets of Johannesburg, the New Patriotism of our new … express their appreciation for the feat of…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… [I]f our own independent efforts had taught us anything in the recent period, it was that our efforts would reach a … armed struggle. The ANC attempted to…
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… of our South African friends again confirms the fact that in the present epoch only the Bolshcvik-Leninists, i.e., the … a combination of ignorance and…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Mr. Kenneth Kaunda of the Zambia African National Congress in Northern Rhodesia. Both have been unable to attend our convention, for both are now, in the…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… Minister dealt with the policy of separate development in a particularly effective way. Adv. Vorster also referred … Rhodesia was concerned. South Africa had…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… ACT IN UNITY! Compatriots, allies and democratic supporters of … Africa, Comrades, The names of the founding fathers are in the minds of many of the oppresse…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… I had some sense that somehow my daughter was involved. In 1985 the regime offered all political prisoners, including … and potentially explosive matter for…
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… academic and human rights and gender activist who born in Grey Street Durban on the 12th August 1928. She was the … of Southern Africa. Fatima was the second…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… their political activities. After the banning of the ANC in 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act, Gwala became active in underground structures of the…
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
… extended to me to submit a paper to this important, in many ways historic, session of the Special Committee on … of the Committee has made this organ of the…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… I was a fresh-faced 16-year-old when I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer holiday between school and university I …
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… must understand the general situation, which is developing in the Western world. Western democracy is faced with a general crisis in that there have come to…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… sustain their wars and, if neither is a clear-cut winner in that process, no less so if they make peace. This was so … National Congress, its foe for 30…
From retirement to parliament
… of Rights,' adopted by the ANC Annual Conference.) Preface In the following pages the reader will find what has been … dynamic way of directing the attention…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… (An appeal sent to the people of the United Kingdom in May 1963 through the Anti-Apartheid Movement) I greet all … lovers of freedom, wherever they may be…