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EventJan Volschenk, a well-known South African painter, dies
… On this day in history, Jan Volschenk, a prominent South African painter, died at the age of 83. He passed away in the town of Riversdale in the Cape…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… Greg Arde spoke to Fatima Meer, once a shining light in the fight against apartheid, now a thorn in the side of the fat-cat politicians. (This article first…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… and enmity that have a way of creeping into the text in a work of this nature. Besides, memory can sometimes be … as an ordinary onlooker. There are events…
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… mere jail-going. He warned, during the first satyagraha in South Africa, as early as 1909: "A satyagrahi must be … and divide the ranks of the resisters. The…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… Boycott has been used as an effective political weapon in different countries ever since it came into use as a … from all over the world of the effectiveness…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… which has given us the possibility to convene here today in what I am certain will, up to its conclusion, be a … of our judicial system. It transpired that…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… after 1959, Non-White student leaders met at Stutterheim in July 1968. A need for contact, especially among the … would investigate ways of establishing…
Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012
… this important Provincial General Council this morning in the name of our revolutionary movement, the African … for our National Policy Conference which is…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… It is wonderful for us who have grown up and matured in conditions which foster always and continuously to reckon in terms of race, colour and nationality,…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in 1899 in Witzieshoek (now known as Qwa Qwa), a tiny African reserve … of the Nhlapo under Mfuzunyane settled among…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
… away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in Zimbabwe which had started with the establishment of the Southern Rhodesia African National…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… March 21st, 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when … was a recognition that racism still prevails…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… March 21st, 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when … was a recognition that racism still prevails…
Address at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs Abuja, 3 October 2000
… Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Democracy and Renaissance in Africa: In search of an enduring Pax Africana Thank you for inviting … about the important topic…
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… that your reply has not addressed the issues I raised in my memorandum of the 26th June, 1992. Instead, you … and blatant party political propaganda involved…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these were in solitary confinement due to my being the only white … but I had escaped arrest until this day…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… After the State of Emergency in 1960, when so many of us were locked up for four or five months in detention, there was a widespread feeling that we were ……
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… 1 Two years have gone by since our last Conference, and in that brief period so many great events of tragic … will be quite impossible for me to deal with…
Chapter III - The world outside
… by Side by Helen Joseph While I was living encapsulated in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of … black and white, leading to injuries and…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… people, a proud and historic Jubilee Year. The situation in Southern African is pregnant with the promise of … developments. It demands that we observe this…
EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… After various North African operations late in June and in July 1942, Lt.-Gen. B.L. Montgomery, the new commander of the Eighth Army in World War 2,…
EventAfrica Malaria Day
… day was officially instituted by the World Health Assembly in May 2007. Malaria Day was first observed by African governments in 2001 and was known as Africa…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… National Congress has led the people of South Africa in the struggle for freedom. For over fifty years it has been … of Zimbabwe, have met the oppressor…
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… National Congress has led the people of South Africa in the struggle for freedom. For over fifty years it has been … of Zimbabwe, have met the oppressor…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… of Genadendal is the oldest Moravian Mission Village in Africa, with Church buildings and a School that dates back … Moravian Mission Church houses the…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… calm, rising living standards, prosperity and sharing in the sustained economic boom of that period. Some blacks shared in the bounty, those for whom the…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… are closely bound together: it was he who first found gold in 1886, a discovery that gave rise to the largest and most vibrant city in South Africa. The…
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… Born in the Eastern Cape, Dumisa Ntsebeza, like many young South Africans in the 70’s was involved in the struggle. He was arrested in the mid 70’s and…
EventPeter Nchabeleng President of Northern Transvaal UDF dies
… Nchabeleng, former president of United Democratic Front in Northern Transvaal, dies in police cells in Schoonoord, Lebowa. It is alleged that he was tortured…
EventAfrica Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was received. It was destined to run …