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Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… Magistrates' Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few buildings in which African tenants could hire … offices: it was owned by Indians. This…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… After the escape of Tim, Stephen and Alex we who remained behind bore the … That’s two or three hangings every week. There were some of our brave comrades on…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… Magistrates` Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few buildings in which African tenants could hire … offices: it was owned by Indians. This…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 Report … by A.I. Meer to the Joint Passive…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… between Hout Bay Harbour and The Sentinel Peak and many of the residents are employed in the fishing or other … categorized as Coloured during the apartheid…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… Zuma delivers the traditional ANC January 8th Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC in Polokwane,…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around … and Mowbray but as…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
… for this is that there are very few written accounts of the mfecane, which makes it very difficult to determine … new oral traditions were born to suit the…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a … ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Kenya around 2000BCE, and again in 1000BCE, to occupy most of the area of the country. Around 400CE Bantu-speaking peoples arrived … hectares from the…
Address at the Third African Renaissance Festival, Durban, 31 March 2001
… Chairperson Premier of the Province Our friends from the USA Distinguished … As Africans, we are faced with the urgent challenge of ending poverty and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honourable…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] Their date of arrival was telling, having coincided with enslaved people at the Cape experiencing their first…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… Introduction Reflecting on her past years of imprisonment in 2012, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela stated “I think you can stand imprisonment of 27…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… prosecutor in a hostage smile and I in the borrowed robes of my grandmother’s wisdom corn she said cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens ……
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…
PlaceWynberg, Southern Suburbs
… Wynberg is certainly one of the most interesting Areas in Cape Town. It is home to one of the oldest Schools in the Country (Wynberg Boys), with its … has a…
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… Traditional Leaders, Distinguished Guests, People of the North West, Fellow South Africans: Today, we celebrate the 9th anniversary of our freedom, a year…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… sportspersons and administrators were in the vanguard of this front of the anti-apartheid struggle. I would like to extend my … a Proclamation in February…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… Deputy President Comrade Nelson Mandela, Members of the National Executive Committee, Regional Convenors and members of the Regional Leadership, …
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in…
PlaceCabo Verde
… archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of Guinea-Bissau. The first permanent settlers of the island chain were Portuguese explorers who…
14. Suicide among indentured
… By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in all by 1911) who came to South Africa … faced them, and apparently the most serious and persistent of all,…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… Sisulu. Metetiwe. Born in the Transkei, in the district of Tsomo on twenty-first October 1918. Educated in a lower … school that took me up to high school in…
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… a generation August 15 1977 was the final occasion I had of speaking to Steve Biko. He was on the phone from his home … just family matters. No sooner had I…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… European ‘Discovery’ of the Americas Where and what is America? 'America' has more … one meaning. It is usually taken to mean the United States of America …
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… National Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade Baleka Mbethe Deputy Provincial … Comrade David Makhura Provincial Office Bearers Members of the Provincial…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a … There are differing interpretations concerning…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… Programme Director, Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula, Acting Premier of Gauteng Ms Qedane Mahlangu, Family and friends of Steve Madi Mokone,…