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Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
Your Excellency, The leadership of the African National Congress of South Africa takes this opportunity again to congratulate Your Excellency on your recent…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
Your Excellency, The leadership of the African National Congress of South Africa takes this opportunity again to congratulate Your Excellency on your recent…
PlaceCabo Verde
Cape Verde (or Cabo Verde as the nation now prefers to be called) is located on an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of Guinea-Bissau…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
Madame Speaker; Honourable Members; Ladies and Gentlemen; Let me start off by thanking all parties and particularly those members who took part in the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
Programme Director, Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr. Pallo Jordan, Premier of the Western Cape, Mr. Ebrahim Rasool, Deputy Mayor of Cape Town, Councillor…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
President of the National Assembly; Your Excellency, President Jose dos Santos; Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, I come to this…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre, when police opened fire on a crowd of unarmed…
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
This 4 110 megawatt Station, constructed at a cost of R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest Power Stations in the World and the first to have been…
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms. They are fighting against the forces…
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
A GROWING ECONOMY The development of an inclusive economy is an absolute priority. This is about human dignity. We need to get our nation working, to…
Address to the Biennial Meeting of the Association for The Development of Education in Africa (Adea), Johannesburg, 6 December 1999
Education Ministers from African Countries Representatives of Donor Organisations Distinguished Delegates Ladies and Gentlemen: I am honoured to be here…
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
ADDRESS AT A DINNER HOSTED BY THE FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE (FICCI), CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRIES (CII), AND JOINT BUSINESS COUNCILS (JBC) Delhi, 26 January 1995
Ladies and Gentlemen. May I express my heartfelt appreciation for this opportunity to address such a distinguished gathering of leaders of Indian business,…
Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 10 years of Democracy In South Africa Monday 10 May 2004, Cape Town
Madam SpeakerChairperson of the National Council of Provinces Deputy Speaker Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP Mister President Deputy President Members of the…
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
Chairperson, Minister Essop Pahad, Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you very much for making it possible for me to be part of the closing session of…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke The Basotho THE NEXT PART of our history revolves round Moshoeshoe, chief of the…
Pretoria the Segregated city
Contents Pretoria the Segregated city The Tomlinson Report Atteridgeville and Saulsville Hammanskraal Mamelodi Mabopane Laudium Eersterus …
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds necessary to construct this building that was able to house the first Volksraad…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 16) On Trial State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
April 6: People's Protest Day The African National Congress has served notice on the Government that the Non-European people can no longer go on tolerating …
PlaceCiskei
The Ciskei Bantustan in the Eastern Cape was created as an enclave for the South Africa's Xhosa-speaking people as part of apartheid racial segregation. The…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
From 1976 to 1996, political violence in KwaZulu Natal led to 11 700 deaths and the displacement of up to 500 000 people. The organization and savagery of the…
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
eMalahleni, formerly Witbank, in the Mpumalanga Province, East of Pretoria. Established in 1890 as Witbank, it is at the centre of a coal-mining area in which…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane, Vella…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation or MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), was jointly formed by leading members of the banned ANC…
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
We would like to take this opportunity to pay homage to the farsighted leaders of our region who, eight years ago, decided to establish the Southern Africa…