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Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic content of …
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic content of …
PlaceBritish Bechuanaland
… Territory of British Bechuanaland The territory known as British … covered an area that included the subsequent divisions of Vryburg, Mafikeng . Kuruman and…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… HAD ITS BEGINNING as a propaganda force from the plinth of Van Riebeeck Statue, Adderley Street, Cape Town, when it stood at the bottom of Dock Road in the…
PlaceSchweizer-Reneke
… On 7 August 1993, Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) , had just been given the freedom of the White section of the…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… or disrupting all mass organisations in the interest of National Socialism. The leaders of the Nationalists, having absorbed Hitler's teachings, … Churches,…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… 760,000 members met in the 48th National Conference of the African National Congress. This conference was the first of its kind held inside South Africa for…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… and domestic service.’ Van Onselen’s two-volume history of ‘everyday life in the Witwatersrand’, a long ridge on the … explores the period from the mid-1880s…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… The Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC has taken place. It opened on June 16th, the ninth anniversary of the Soweto Uprising of 1976 and…
PlaceMamelodi
… given to President Paul Kruger by the Africans because of his ability to whistle and imitate birds, also meaning Mother of Melodies. Mamelodi has a…
PlaceGriqualand East
… The territory of Griqualand East is located South of the Colony of Natal , between the Drakensberg and Pondoland . Despite …
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … imposed disabilities upon Indians as a group, regardless of…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… It has come to our notice that the issue of the Johannesburg Sunday Times of November 4, 1979, carries an article that there has … been a secret meeting in…
Address at the Mercosur Summit, Florianopolis, Brazil, 15 December 2000
… and Gentlemen I would like to thank the honourable Heads of Government who constitute the membership of Mercosur, for this chance to address you during this…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
… We have dealt last week with the effects and possibilities of the united front in European countries and now we must analyse the methods and chances of a…
Address to Foreign Correspondents association Johannesburg, 26 November 1998
… Dr Werner Vogt Members of the Foreign Correspondents Association Ladies and gentlemen A meeting with members of the Foreign Correspondents Association has…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South … three houses in parliament. The first House was the House of…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… they are dealing severe blows to the fascist forces of IanSmith and Vorster. Soon they will be fighting the enemy … on SouthAfrican soil. "WE ARE AT WAR"…
Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
… At the request of the leaders of the location, the Resident Magistrate, Mr. J. Ashburnham, and the Mayor of Bloemfontein Mr. D. A. Thomson, motored out to…
PlaceNamaqualand
… With a Magisterial District of 47 962 sq km, in the North-Western Cape . This region is … in South-West Africa. 'Namaqua' is the plural form of Nama, the…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… so directly, knowing that people out there want to be part of the process and will be responding, because in the end the drafting of the constitution must…
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… congregation was established in 1890 and the cornerstone of the present church building, designed in a neo-Gothic … NMC legislation on 19 September 1980. The…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… Question : On the night of the 12th/13th of August, a unit of the People`s Army shelled Voortrekkerhoogte, the …
Memorandum by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply" by Joe Matthews, 5 April 1969, Morogoro
… be content with the present situation; all must be aware of a deepgoing malaise such as we have never known before. . . . Theoretical. . . . one must point…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… made many powerful speeches. Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Before the rise of Nazism, the ministers of the Dutch Reformed churches did not interfere with the … South Africa began to play a leading part in the…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serious study of such a struggle. Firstly,…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… to the city centre, breakfast included and a shower of my own. He even calls me a taxi. I am pleasantly surprised … in German, but there is no mistaking the…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… February 1957 A timely article by the banned ex-Secretary of the African National Congress, now on trial for treason. … ever since it came into use as a…
Address by Mandela to the CBI conference London, 10 July 1996
… have been in the United Kingdom to savour the hospitality of the British people, particularly its highest representatives in Buckingham Palace. The warmth of…