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Chapter 13
Zig Zags of opportunism We have considered it necessary in the previous chapter to pause and deal in more detail with certain facets of the situation, the…
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
Colonial domination, because it is total and tends to over-simplify, very soon manages to disrupt in spectacular fashion the cultural life of a conquered…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
THE DEEPENING POLITICAL CRISIS in our country has been a matter grave concern to me for quite some time and I now consider it necessary in the national…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
80 Harrington Street, Cape Town. 16th June, 1948 My dear Mandela, Now to the discussion on the question of organisation, which is every day assuming greater…
ArchiveBeyond reform: the challenge of change - NUSAS July festival speeches
Speeches presented at the NUSAS July festival held at the University of Cape Town which include speeches about State strategy regarding constitutional…
ArchiveANC call to the nation: from ungovernability
Call to the Nation from the ANC National Executive Committee sent in the wake of an attack by the South African government against Botswana, Zimababwe and…
ArchiveFacts about the current situation in South Africa and what is to be done
African National Congress report on the current situation in South Africa and how to respond. Examines the South African regime, the Black Consciousness…
ArchiveNon-Violence News, Fourth Quarter 1994: The South African Fellowship of Reconciliation.
The newsletter is about South African Fellowship of Reconciliation (SAFOR) conference held at Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre on 14th and 15th December 1963, the…
ArchiveSlotavond van remember Soweto ..maand
Black , red and white poster. Foreign language. Seems to be a concert in support of the struggle in South Africa. List of performers. Artwork of guitarist…
EventTielman Roos dies after a long illness
Tielman Johannes de Villiers Roos (56), politician and former South African Minister of Justice, dies after a long struggle against ill health. He was…
ArchiveThe long march
Advertisement of play about Sarmcol workers struggle. Grey background. Lettering in white, outlined in red and black. Modern artwork of brown man with left…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter returns from his…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
Umkhonto We Sizwe - "Born of the people" This day 25 years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked South Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
This day 25 years ago bomb blasts in several main centres rocked South Africa. Thus was born Umkhonto we Sizwe, the People's Army of our country. By…
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had shattered the…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
16 December is a day of great significance in South Africa due to two historical events that took place. The first of these was in 1838, when the Battle of…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
Regina Mundi Catholic Church is located in the Township of Soweto, in the Suburb of Moroka. The Church forms part of the rich History of Soweto and is the…
ArchiveFive Freedoms Forum - African National Congre
Report of the Commission on the women's role in shaping the future, for the Five Freedoms Forum - ANC Conference in July 1989. Asks whether women's issues…
Enlightened self-interest and the liberal spirit
Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial lectureThe paper discusses how by placing together of self-interest and the liberal spirit might not be beneficial to the…
EventHester Elizabeth Cornelius is born
Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers' Union (GWU), was born in Lichtenburg, Transvaal. Hester played an…
EventWinnie Mandela convicted
On this day, the anti-Apartheid struggle stalwart was found guilty of a string of fraud and theft offences. She was sentenced to five years in jail with one…
ArchiveStatess policy of deception
Rejecting any participation in the negotiations meetings of 29 November and of 20-21 December 1991, the New Unity Movement says in its latest statement that…
ArchiveAnglo-American influences on the Black conciousness movement
It was said by minions of the racist oppressive giant in South Africa that Black Conciousness was nothing but an importation of American Black power. African…
ArchiveDefend, consolidate and advance the Front
An article on defend, consolidate and advance the Front which is divided in five topics such as National democratic struggle and the front approach, broadening…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
International feminism was a catalyst for South African feminist organisation to address violence against women. In 1975, Anne Mayne, a survivor of both…
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
Comrade Mendi Msimang and the family and relatives, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Ministers, Premiers, Deputy Ministers and MECs, Ministers from…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
The Mompati family Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, Former President Thabo Mbeki and Madame Zanele Mbeki at home, Former President Kgalema Motlanthe and…
ArchiveTime to act
A perfomance on struggle in South Africa and the need for actionA2 silkscreened poster produced by Action Workshop at CAP, Cape Town, black, red and yellow;…
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
This book contains a collection of selected articles by I B Tabata, the president of the Unity Movement of South Africa. The articles range over a number of…
EventJoseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane, leader of the St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove) with support in rural areas
Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane, leader of the St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove) with support in rural areas, dies in Warmberg, Pietersburg…