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Statement to the 20th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 14 November 1984
… present here for enabling us to attend and participate in the proceedings of this important Assembly. Our … OAU is a lodestar pointing the way to a brighter…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… common aspirations and the challenges facing our nation in these trying times. My coming here today is a long-awaited … May Peace be With You! We have joined…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 1 - The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
… prime minister of South Africa. "Given that the whites are in power in South Africa and that they will continue to want what they want now, it is impossible…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… SANCO, Comrades and friends This Workers Day takes place in the year when we celebrate sixty years since the adoption … come from a proud tradition of unity…
Speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Oliver Tambo Institute of Leadership, 17 July 2008, Kawaweta, Uganda
… gentlemen, Good day to you all. Today is a significant day in our post-apartheid history, as we have finally been able … Wesizwe (MK) campsite. We are…
Address at the Mercosur Summit, Florianopolis, Brazil, 15 December 2000
… life depend on the leadership that we give at this time. In the many international forums that we all attend, we have … world to accept some of the burden of…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… question) (1934) [....] The position of the Trade Unions in South Africa reflects the backwardness of the South … the Unions, and this is the most important…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
… vigilante groups grew strong after 1902. Indian traders in outlying Transvaal towns were singled out for the … addressed to the High Commissioner, Lord…
Chapter 1 - The House at Lower Seoli
… South Africa, 1992 The Last Supper is a painful story in Christian circles. Pictures of the Last Supper grace the … betray him. That supper was an extremely…
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… campaigns waged by South Africa’s liberation movements in the 1980s. For Indian and “Coloured” people, the low … the government’s “reform strategy”. But the…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… continued to suffer reverses both within South Africa and in the region. The Decade of Liberation Today's anniversary ushers in the last twelve months of a…
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
… On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town is burnt down. … context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school…
EventDr Cedric Phatudi, Lebowa Chief Minister, dies
… Cedric Namedi Phatudi was born in ga-Mphahlele in 1912. Phatudi worked as an educator and educational … of the Inspectors’ Association of Bantu Education in…
PlaceAlexander Bay, Namaqualand
… Alexander Bay is way up the West Coast of the Northern Cape in South Africa . Virtually on the Border with Namibia , in a Region known simply as: 'Little…
PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… were raised by donations from the friends of the Herschels in Cape Town. The stone for the memorial was quarried at … Edinburgh, and shipped to the Cape,…
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
… accepted by both parties. The guidelines to be formulated in terms of the Report will be applied in dealing with members of all organisations, groupings or ……
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… Institutions, with a number of Campuses. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, a High School for Boys. … after 1880, when the discovery of…
PlaceFranschhoek, Western Cape
… , a Community of French Huguenots were granted land in this Valley by the Dutch Government of the Cape , after … fleeing their Homeland when Protestantism…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… started when he married an English woman, Ruth Williams in September 1948, in England, without the permission of the tribal elders. His … people against…
PlaceLutheran Church, Martin Melck House and Sexton House, Strand Street, Cape Town.
… The Lutheran Church in Strand Street in Cape Town is the oldest church building in South Africa, dating back to 1792. This unique group of … p/posts…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Introduction
… it is equally important to highlight the various ways in which Africans shaped colonialism. This is not to deny the … operated between the seventeenth and…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… to the Legal Resources Centre for taking the initiative in establishing a Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture. I thank you … Lectures for as long as South Africans…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… famous camp-follower’s tale was Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop, set in the fictitious Ishmaelia (read Ethiopia/Abyssinia) in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a…
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
… individuals. No, we represent organisations deeply rooted in the struggle for justice, deeply rooted in the struggle for justice, deeply rooted in the heart…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer The riots broke out in Soweto on June 16, 1976 when police fired on a group of … against the use of Afrikaans as a…
41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906
… that preparations were being made for Response Government in the Transvaal, Indians presented their case before the … They were worried because past…
EventJohn Kani was born on this day
… On this day Bonisile John Kani was born in New Brighton, in the Eastern Cape. He matriculated at Newell High School … love for theatre led him to work with…
PlaceCity Hall, Port Elizabeth
… 1974. The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862. The attractive clock tower was only added in 1883…