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ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… by ourselves. And the nation can be nowhere else but in Africa by Marcus Garvey Introduction Over the years the … it is easy to overlook the continent’s…
BiographyAlcott Skei Gwentshe
Alcott Skei Gwentshe was born in 1920 in Tsomo in the Transkei. A shopkeeper in (Duncan Village township)East London, Alcott Skei Gwentshe played a key role in…
Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg on 25 and 26 June 1955
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa…
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… in the old section. It dates back to the Anglo-Boer War . The History of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a … in 1911 and, as one of the oldest…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… becoming an armed camp, the Government preparing for civil war with increasingly heavy police and military apparatus, … part, in the name of the African…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… it was able to re-register as a significant actor in South African politics, primarily by sporadic armed activity … difficult and protracted. Secondly, the…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… into writing as she became a doctor. How fortunate the world is. Because of the state of Egyptian politics at the … however at that time women were not…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
… Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex- South African Airforce airfield now operating privately as a … and charter flights in the most beautiful…
ArchiveAppendix 3 The Freedom Charter
… We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in … of all international…
Note on meeting with Mr. Sam Nujoma -1983
… We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in … of all international…
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
… the People, Kliptown, on June 26, 1955 We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… Congress - Mandla Nkomfe and Smiso Nkwanyana Zimbabwe and South Africa: Anatomy of a crisis revisited - Moeletsi Mbeki … day out white politicians and…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… becoming an armed camp, the government preparing for civil war with increasingly heavy police and military apparatus, … our part, in the name of the African…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… other form of work in the towns. Behind the scenes of the world of the workers 1904: The government under Lord Milner … with those of Natal and the Cap to…
Chapter 2
… come to settle and had become part of the population of South Africa. They had become the rulers of the country. They … through Parliament. The very next…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … of South Africa, declare for all our country…
PlaceBenin
… politics, reflecting the traditional north/south socioeconomic division of early colonial development, … (Bariba and others, based in Natitingou). From the…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… whole. We have achieved a good deal of progress in making South Africa ungovernable. Correctly, we concentrated on the … White South Africa will not awaken…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… whole. We have achieved a good deal of progress in making South Africa ungovernable. Correctly, we concentrated on the … White South Africa will not awaken…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… present and to see so many Africans from all parts of the world. Gumede delivered a strong speech against British … because, since the last nine years, the…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… died towards the end of 1979 and his only relative in South Africa is a brother who resides in Cape Town and who … Mrs Thatcher really was too busy: she had…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… a big oops! Given the fact that in other parts of the world today, people’s heads are chopped. That, indeed, … towards a better, just, equitable, peaceful,…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… Councillor of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly. In South Africa, this is one of those rare occasions where … sufferance, and not as citizens'. This was after…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Say It out Loud - The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913
… events that have an important bearing on the future of South Africa, and especially on the Coloured races. Thanks, … made by them under that regime was…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… in my life and without whom any account of my part in the South African struggle would be meaningless. The religious … Implicit in that teaching was the…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… plan envisaged 7 000 guerrilla fighters under arms inside South Africa, making ready to receive our returning fighters … for four years in a guerrilla…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… This feature examines the process of industrialisation in South Africa. Industrialisation describes a complicated … South Africa Southern Africa was not the…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… Council for agreeing to convene on the question of South Africa. We would also like to thank you most sincerely … of negotiations could not succeed while a…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… uprising, this had not been agreed on. How fortunate South Africa has been that people like Nelson Mandela, Walter … Berrange , an acknowledged expert at…