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ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… The politics referred to is not about the science and art of government, but more often about the tensions between … the writer (present company not excepted…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African Reserve Bank’s 75th anniversary banquet Pretoria, 28 June 1996
… Dr Stals; Ministers of the Cabinet; Governors and other representatives of the central banks of the member countries of the SADC; Distinguished guests; …
PlaceLadysmith
… Ladysmith is one of the most important industrial and commercial centres of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Furthermore, it is also a town with…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… The delegation of the African National Congress is very happy to have participated in the 20th Summit meeting of the OAU which in our view, will go down as…
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… The delegation of the African National Congress is very happy to have participated in the 20th Summit meeting of the OAU which in our view, will go down as…
Message by President Nelson Mandela on National Reconciliation Day, 16 December 1995
… But then there are few nations with our history of enforced division, oppression and sustained conflict. And … transition to reclaim their humanity. We, the…
EventThe Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire
… After the death of Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), the Angolan government announced a …
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… deals with political resistance amongst South Africans of Indian descent in the city of Durban. The variables of race, class, gender, religion and ethnic…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… Day. We greet this great gathering and the entire people of this country in the name of the working people of South Africa and Namibia, as well as their…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… described the US as "the most desperately schizophrenic of republics". I wonder what he would have made of the presence of so many of the good and the great …
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… Xuxuwa the Railroad Siding, Eastern Cape, is 9 km West of Fort Beaufort and 7 km East-Northeast of Brakfontein. It takes its name from a Tributary of the Kat…
PlaceRobertson Division
… The Division of Robertson was originally part of the district of Tulbagh, whose drostdy was transferred to Worcester in …
Address by Deputy President Thabo MBeki at the Conference on Infrastructure Investment, 28-29 March 1996
… Executive Council members, Directors General, Leaders of the union and civic movement, Firstly let me welcome you … with the private sector regarding the…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… Statement of principles 14. We believe that a conjuncture of circumstances exists which, if there is a demonstrable readiness on the part of the Pretoria…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Babanango is located about 58 km North-West of Melmoth in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Initially the Town was part of land granted to White farmers, in 1885,…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… last. It was organised by the National Liberation League of South Africa and supported by the S.A. Indian Congress, … Coloured, Native, Indian, Malay and…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… African National Action Council was established in terms of a resolution adopted at a conference held at … your Government, after receiving a mandate from a…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… Africa. Speakers included Julius Nyerere, future President of Tanzania and long-time fighter against apartheid, K.Chiume, press secretary of the Nyasaland…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a much larger piece of land but this…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
… has been working very busily. This so-called press" is, of course, simply the press agency of the ruling classes to spread their propaganda among the … and…
African History Books
… During the month of May we celebrate Africa Month as a way to commemorate the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OUA) in 1963.. As a way to value…
Call For Renewed Struggle Against Ghetto Act: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, December 1947
… December 1947 16 The Joint Passive Resistance Council of the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses, having given … present political situation affecting the…
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… Located in the heart of Soweto , the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village is a museum-cum-outdoor exhibition of astounding sculptures and buildings created by…
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… was privately tutored at home and matriculated at the age of 14. Two years after her matriculation she enrolled at the University of Cape Town to study for a…
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
… was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape Dutch … its verandah and outbuildings were added at the…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his last crumb with a passing stranger. The hospitality of the Afrikaners is famous and they will readily extend it … (Rooineks). I have often found a warm…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns of Tulbagh, Wolseley and Ceres experienced the most … earthquake in South African history.[i] The…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… If a life could be mapped, that of the Honorable Arthur Chaskalson would surely appear as a … human rights, and leading, without deviation, to the bench of…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… not 100 years old. It abandoned the fundamental objectives of the original 1912 ANC more than 50 years ago. In 1955, a section of the 1912 ANC leadership was…