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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 … will be the first in our country when all the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the snap debate on the Shell House incident National Assembly, Cape Town, 7 June 1995
… concern for human life, multiply many-fold in respect of the 47 other citizens who died on the day, and the more than 20 000 who have lost their lives in…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… women returned home, for nothing at all could be left in gaol. It seemed bizarre that after five months, there must … folded arms in the witness box, though…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… HEARD: The ANC is officially portrayed in South Africa as a communist, terrorist-type organisation, … our people either into ethnic groups or into white…
84. The South African Indian Council: A. Rajbansi’s opening speech, 1982
… Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Despite the low percentage poll in the election, the Minister of Internal Affairs declared … level that would serve the interests…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… 52nd ANC National Conference, held just a few weeks ago in Polokwane. This historic gathering of the highest … platform to attend to the difficulties…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… or sometimes Liz, was born on 8 December 1935 and raised in the working-class area of Gleemoor, Athlone. She was the … Cape’s coloured intelligentsia. [4]…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… Village, which date back to roaming Bantu civilisation in the period from 400 A.D. The site of a later iron-age village of the Lala people can be visited in…
Speaking Notes for the President of the African National Congress, President Jacob Zuma, during the MKMVA National Conference, 12 October 2012
… of our MK veterans. It is a very significant conference in many ways, as it takes place against the backdrop of very important developments in our national…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… cc SABC February 27 marks 37 years since the passing away in the hands of the apartheid regime of the great … Sobukwe remains a source of inspiration to…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
… Comrades, ladies and gentlemen This hall, situated in the historic city of Paris, evokes in us a feeling of inspiration. We who come from South Africa … of…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
… Comrades, ladies and gentlemen This hall, situated in the historic city of Paris, evokes in us a feeling of inspiration. We who come from South … of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the SOWETO Uprising on 16 June 1976 16 June 1994
… and friends When the tragic events of 16 June 1976 erupted in Soweto, the question posed itself to the whole of South Africa: So Whereto Now? In the…
VI - The Inquest
… that no criminal proceedings would be instituted in the Steve Biko affair. Two months after his death the inquest on Steve Biko began on 14 November in the…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we … establish how much of the country’s recent history…
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
… day-to-day individual and organisational struggles. Often in activist work, we are viewed as “strong individuals”, yet … (systems of socio-economic…
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
… for beginners, then Windhoek is very much its capital in more than name only! "It's the sort of place that divides … the steel-and-glass high-rises. The…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… In 1964 a young South African student and photography … Pietermaritzburg’s Great Hall and captured a series of black and white images of the band, the Blue…
PlaceThembuland
… It is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory … people who lived on the east bank of the Bashee River, in what was later…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Legislatures and Governance, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… The commissions discussed the different options outlined in the discussion document on Legislatures and Governance for … system should be conducted for…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… In Mein Kampf, Hitler propounded at length the need for capturing or disrupting all mass organisations in the interest of National Socialism. The leaders of…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… Museum Review) SOLDIERS WITHOUT REWARD Africans in South Africa's Wars by J S Mohlamme Introduction and … the part played by the African peoples of South…
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 … as an affirmation of the self-evident truth…
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…
PlaceRwanda
… Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa . People began settling in the area as early as 10.000BCE [i] . After several ……
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… august assembly of the lawmakers of Trinidad and Tobago. In particular, on this historic occasion, I greet you on … those of our patriots, like Nelson…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… Dr Abdurahman delivered his Presidential Address, speaking in English. He said that some people wondered at the reason … the congress was necessary or not…
Speech on the Occasion of Installation as the Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare and on being Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by O. R. Tambo, 19 October 1991
… Comrades and friends, I stand here before you today, in all humility, to receive the two great honours this … rich history. The wheel of history has turned…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and … on sexual relations between European…
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
… extended to me to submit a paper to this important, in many ways historic, session of the Special Committee on … the ruling power is ruthless with the…