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Bathurst, Eastern Cape
… Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in South Africa. Founded in 1820, this peaceful little Village on…
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
… unanimous decision of the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in the matter of “Economic Freedom Fighters v Speaker of the … and inevitable political discussion…
IX - The Doctors
… request of Col. Goosen he had examined Biko on 7 September in the offices of the Security Police about 12 noon. He had … no evidence of any abnormality or…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… on the path to democratic rule. This historic moment in the transition to people's power will express itself … before the end of 1993. The elections will be…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… Oliver Tambo should be asked to attend the conference in person. This would give you the opportunity to see him in the flesh after three decades, witness the…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… he said, appreciated the trouble the delegates had taken in coming to Cape Town. Their presence at the Conference … might be taken as a sign that there were…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of His Inauguration and the 10th Anniversary of Freedom, Pretoria, 27 April 2004
… within it and represented much that is ugly and repulsive in human society. It was a place in which happiness could only break through in short ephemeral…
Nelson Mandela The World Celebrates the Mandela’s
… Introduction Winnie's banning order expired in September 1975 and thirteen years of silence was broken. She was in a sense pulled back from the dead. Durban…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
… of development and the enlargement of freedom. It is in this spirit that I accept this double honour in the name of our people. These two awards, one made…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON RECEIVING THE FREEDOM OF PIETERMARITZBURG Pietermaritzburg, 25 April 1997
… South African nation. It is a tribute to their achievement in building democracy, peace and unity upon the ashes of … deflected from their struggle to end…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… has ever seen, they who were the first to lose their lives in the struggle to defend our freedom and independence and they who, as a people, perished in the…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… your task is, and that great trust has been placed in you by the high command. B. The purpose of your … and the liberators of our country. Thousands of young…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… of the organisation, what effect it has on society. In other words, the question to ask is: Whose interests does … It is one of those peculiar anomalies…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
… care of all problems relating to the internal situation in South Africa; it plans and executes or plans and carries … Island, and we carry out as much…
Address at the Third African Renaissance Festival, Durban, 31 March 2001
… some time to accomplish. The first objective we confront in this regard is that we must ourselves take on the … some of these constraints and possibilities…
EventFormer Minister of Public Works, Thoko Didiza, is born
… Angela Thoko Didiza was born in Durban in 1965. Didiza became Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs in 1999 and in 2006 she became Minister of Public…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left many injured. The protests began in Soweto schools and…
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… National Congress (ANC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in South Africa. Though the…
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… writer and social historian Bessie Amelia Head was born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a White mother … stage because she was too Black and she…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Organisational Renewal, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… Introduction 1. From the debates in the commissions, it is clear that we all regard … movement to examine and deal with organisational questions in response…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… her resistance as a reformist-feminist will be explored in this biography. Adichie is a young writer, whom the … and defiant 21st-century feminist writer,…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… of struggle, defeat and renewal. There is a continuity in our resistance to apartheid which encompasses a noble … aspirations. We rededicated ourselves to…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… I drove back alone to Johannesburg, to my comfortable home in a white suburb, to my comfortable white life; my well-paid … I had told Violet Weinberg that I…
PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… German speaking farmers, artisans and entrepreneurs living in and around the village of Kroondal, on 2 August 1896. By that time a church had already been…
EventGreat Trek Centenary Celebrations commence
… involved the Boers leaving the Cape Colony and settling in the interior of South Africa. White settlement led to the … was the general dissatisfaction with…
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… the Minister of Defence and leader of the National Party in the Cape Province as new Prime Minister and Party leader. … that had rocked the Department of…
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… In early 1966 John Lennon was reading about Christianity and … me." The comment was typically provocative and was ignored in Britain. Only five months later…
PlaceFicksburg
… The town was founded by General Johan Fick in 1867 who won the territory in the Basotho Wars. Ficksburg is situated in the Eastern Free State between the…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… wish to draw your attention to the dangerous implications in the resolutions on in farm labour which will be moved at a special congress of the Transvaal…
PlaceWorld War Cenotaph
… Road, is a Memorial to 400 of Kimberley’s Men who died in the Great War (World War I) between 1914 and 1918. … on 11 November 1918, the Peace Treaty was…