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EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… Congress launched his hymn into prominence as an anthem of Black struggle against oppression. Because of vandalisation …
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in … country". For him, the Party "succeeded in splitting…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS , Congress of South … the Dunlop Play Ndlovu, Sipho Qabula, Alfred Timeline 1979 In Johannesburg, the…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1 and C10. … had broader control over Vlakplaas' operations…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
… I am honoured to join you today on this important occasion in which we commemorate the 14th anniversary of our freedom. … Group Areas Act and many more laws…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South … it became the only legal non-racial political party in the country, with the banning in 1960 of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
… PTA Authority on behalf of the liberation movements and in the name of the fighting masses of Namibia and South … occur up to two weeks before the actual…
Statement, on Behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the Closing Session of the Seventh Summit Meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States, Arusha by O. R. Tambo, 1 - 2 December 1988
… PTA Authority on behalf of the liberation movements and in the name of the fighting masses of Namibia and South … occur up to two weeks before the actual…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the … of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in Cape Town. Ottilie Schimming…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form … Party (SACP), and Cosatu to bring a…
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… eradication of poverty and the defeat of underdevelopment in every corner of our country. In the last two days we … build laboratories and libraries, supply…
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… the Cape Corps, c. 1919 1 At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Dr. Abdurahman and the A. P.O. supported the … world all that he held most dear. He did not…
PlaceDrakensberg Mountain Range, Lesotho
… name for the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg mountain range in South Africa. The range is more than 200 kilometres long … in sunset, or dark grey and rent by…
PlaceKaroo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
… bordered by; the Swartberg and the Langeberg Mountains, in the Western Cape. It falls under the domain of the Karoo … in sunset, or dark grey and rent by…
PlaceGauteng Province
… of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'. Alternatively…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… will cross over the Transvaal border without permits in defiance of the immigration laws which restrict the free … desire for equal rights for his subjects,…
Bitter Battles to Come - Message to the Meeting of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation by O. R. Tambo, Tripoli, January 1971
… Twelve years ago, the peoples of Africa and Asia met in the revolutionary capital of the United Arab Republic to … the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… and hardship. She personified tenacity to a just cause in the face of a political system that demeaned those she … Hers was a struggle for humanity, often…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… Allow me, Mr. Chairman, to greet this assembly also in the name of Nelson Mandela and other national leaders and … not anywhere else. Mass struggles have…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
… People of South Africa: Today will be indelibly imprinted in the history of our country. If we, who are gathered here … the four British colonies, It was…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… Amersfoort anchored at Table Bay with 174 Angolan slaves in her hold. These slaves constituted the first shipment of … ill-fated Angolans were not the first…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… lecture takes place during the same month way back in September 1952, when the Minister of Native Affairs, Dr … on perpetually riding roughshod over the…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… present leadership of the Natal Indian Congress took over in October 1945. The Indian people of Natal had decided to … of the old leadership, which called…
Opening Speech at the International Solidarity Conference, on the Theme "From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development" by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… allies who are tried and tested and dependable comrades-in-arms. Regrettably, President Mandela cannot be with us … of the ideology of white supremacy which…
Chapter III - The world outside
… by Side by Helen Joseph While I was living encapsulated in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of … and carried out violent physical reprisals…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… the SACP and Cosatu, Representatives of fraternal parties in SADC and internationally, Our honoured veterans, … do the same. We also remain fully committed…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… guests Comrades and friends, We have gathered in Kliptown to relive the historic moment in the history of … to know: That South Africa belongs to all who…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
… responsibility to build a society based on the best in terms of political and human freedoms, socio-economic … township and village enterprises and…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… not strong workplace organisation, at least strong bases in many townships. But, as one such activist reflected later: … according to them, oppressed as…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… Jabavu A great lover of the Bantu was once asked what, in his opinion, were the three greatest needs of the South … of the political and other relations…