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Home Away from Home: Finding Refuge in Italy during Apartheid
Constitution Hill invites you to a most significant exhibition highlighting the role that Italy played in the Apartheid struggle through harbouring South…
ArchiveRecommendations for the forthcoming ANC Conference
Series of brief papers and essays for an upcoming African National Congress Conference. Topics include the character of the struggle, the African alliance,…
ArchiveDecember 16, 1976: Parents day of pledging s
Circular, issued by the Soweto Students Representative Council, calling for a commemoration on 16 December 1976, of those killed in police violence and a…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
During the past week, the entire country has been united in mourning the fall of a giant of our struggle. Messages of condolences have come from all over the…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serious study of such a struggle. Firstly,…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
Comrade Chairman, Comrades and friends. This is an important day in the political history of our country. It is a day which should give comfort and hope to…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The…
ArchiveANC statement at Lisbon Conference
Statement of the African National Congress at a 1977 conference of the African Liberation Movement. Statement covers the South African liberation movement and…
ArchiveAZASO: Azanian Students Organisation: 4th annual congress
Notice of congress meeting. Theme - women in struggle. Black and white poster. AZASO logo: education towards democracy. Venue - DOCC Soweto. List of speakers…
ArchiveWe women will stand shoulder to shoulder
A2 silkscreen poster black on white; graphic of woman; text: We women will stand shoulder to shoulder with our menfolk in a common struggle against poverty,…
ArchiveTreason Trial: the accused, December 1956
Grey poster with black lettering. Black and white photograph by Eli Weinberg, of all the accused. From "The Struggle is my Life", the story of Nelson Mandela…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
On 31 August 2012, anti-Apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube died at the age of 80. She was a practicing Roman Catholic nun and was recruited into the anti…
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
Our Banners Dipped As a young man, Sean MacBride, an Irishman, spent time in prison for his part in the struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973…
South Africa: Basic Education Hosts 2016 Inkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme, 4 to 7 October
PRESS RELEASE 2016 Inkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme celebrates heroes and heroine of the liberation struggle The 2016 edition of the iNkosi…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
Contents and Contributors CONTENTS Comment Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS:…
ArchiveAcceptance of Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, by Nelson Mandela, 1 November 2006
I am pleased to be here today, to enjoy the warm company of friends like Nadine Gordimer, and to know that Seamus Heaney is with us through his words. That I…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
Mr. President; Deputy-President Senators; Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you fully conscious of the historic significance of this moment. South Africa…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
Following almost 400 years of Portuguese presence, Mozambique became an independent state in 1975. A civil war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, backed…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) General H. Van Den Bergh,, briefly appeared on Rhodesian (now known as Zimbabwe) Television…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
On 14 October 1999, the first president and father of Tanzanian independence Julius Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia aged 77. Nyerere became a symbol of the…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 45 - Ray Alexander, "Trade Unionism in South…
ArchiveANC National Conference, July 1991, Durban: Adopted resolution MK
Resolution regarding the Umkhonto we Sizwe at the African National Congress Conference in Durban, July 2-6, 1991. Resolves that it will remain in active…
ArchiveNamibian Day
White poster with black lettering. 21st Anniversary of the armed struggle. 26th August 1987. Outline of Namibia. Artwork of men holding gun and spear. Words…
Namibia
SWAPO poster, commemorating 90 years of struggle. Sepia photographs of Sam Nujoma, Herman Toivo, Chief Hosea Kutako and Hendrik Witbooi. Blue, orange and green…
ArchiveTake your hands off me Im a worker, not a to
Black, white and grey poster. Artwork of a woman fighting off two men, wearing a t-shirt with the words 'a woman's place is in the struggle'. City skyline…
ArchiveNusas Congress Speeches, 1981: A Call for democracy
Speeches concerning NUSAS Congress held on 1981, addressing issues like,the students movement in the struggle for democracy, students initiatives in…
ArchiveInkululeko - Freedom
Typescript of a publication of the SACP entitled Inkululeko - Freedom. Headings: Lessons of the recent strikes; The struggle by the students and the need that…
Archive1984 Year of the women
White, red, black and green poster. Circle in centre with artwork of a man and a women carrying rifles on their shoulders. Mobilisation of women in the…
ArchiveHow June 16 demo was planned
This is an interview with Lebello Matapanyane, describing the events and political developments leading to the new upsurge, and explaining how the militant…
EventJazz Musician, Basil ‘Manenberg’ Coetzee, dies
Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also known as Dollar Brand) died during the night of 11 March…