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Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
Racism in Isolation South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established…
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency, Secretary General of the OAU, Distinguished Ministers, Fellow leaders of the National Liberation Movement, Your…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
“They have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is stuffing one’s…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule by democratic process. Armed to the teeth it has presented the people with only one choice…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to give evidence, my knees were actually trembling for the first time in my life. Somehow I managed…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 Drs Naicker and Dadoo in India, Pakistan and…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I remember well that first meeting with the redoubtable Solly Sachs, when I flew to Johannesburg for the interview…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 14 February 2003 Madame Speaker of the National…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
Having analysed SANSCO's ideology and politics, I now examine particular aspects of its organisation. Specifically, I focus on its structure and membership,…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
1859After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of 1859 is…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
Military History Journal Vol 10 No 1 - June 1995 (incorporating Museum Review) SOLDIERS WITHOUT REWARD Africans in South Africa's Wars by J S Mohlamme …
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February…
Chapter III - The world outside
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph While I was living encapsulated in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive…
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…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
One of the biggest failures of any group of people this century has been the failure of the ruling white minority in South Africa to discard policies which…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
"Apartheid - the Indictment" One of the biggest failures of any group of people this century has been the failure of the ruling white minority in South Africa…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo Level 1 & 2…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade Marius Fransman, General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande, Leadership of…
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
Ellen Kate was the name given to her by her biological mother and father. While important people in her life, they separated while she was still young, and so…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
Micere Githae Mugo is an internationally known world speaker recognized for her literary works, essays and writings which she has used as a platform to…
PlaceGhana
Before March 1957 Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th century found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the…
Address at the 8th Asean Summit, 5 November 2002
Your Royal Highness, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellencies, Ministers and Ambassadors, Distinguished Secretary General of…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew In submitting the following points for the…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984Chapter 5 - The Freedom CharterThe Freedom Charter, a programme which still embraces many of the…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on the Rand, roughly forty in Johannesburg and the…
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
"Johannesburg, renowned for its thunderstorms and is ironically the Economic powerhouse of Africa!"'Joburg' as it is called by locals, was founded in the…