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Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… since then. Now, with a little more than two weeks before Codesa II is scheduled to meet, where are we? The … ANC first spoke of a "Third Force", it was…
EventNP serves legal papers on TRC
… Reconciliation Commission (TRC) giving notice of a High Court application to be heard on 26 August 1997. The application called on the court to order…
The Legal Veneer
… legislation. At the end of its labours a report was tabled before parliament on 3 February 1982, which culminated in the … vanished altogether. 2. Homelands…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… Congress to convene an All African-Asian Conference. Before arriving at the decision the Congress carefully … the Joint Secretaries of the SAIC against the…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… and it has had no difficulty in packing the Constitutional Court to ensure it can get away with that. Indeed, to a very … preferable if all the major SOEs…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… has a long and interesting History that dates back to long before the Italian Prisoners of War , during World War 11 , … slope, then turning north-east…
Statement of the NWC on the organisation`s readiness for the upcoming election, 10 May 2011
… on other important matters. With only few days remaining before the crucial 2011 local government elections, the ANC … programmes in all nine provinces on 17…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has agreed to the defence's request to admit … 200 of Mr Zuma's supporters have…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… of times, because the ANC had been outlawed three years before during the country's first state of emergency, and no … and the directing spirit of the ANC…
PlaceOrkney, North West Province
… and its International Airport . The Town was proclaimed in 1940 on the Witkoppen Farm. It was here that mining pioneer, …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A …
English Settlement in South Africa
British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined to the shores of the Cape and Table Bay as a halfway stop by the East India…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Kotane is also voted in as General Secretary of the party. 1940 22 June 22, Kotane and his wife Sophie have their first …
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… was happening. I raced back onto the highway, sped along before turning up again at one of the off-ramps near … the UDF. Rev Frank Chikane was there and this…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… throughout his life. He practised lifelong learning long before it became a policy buzzword. In his various professions - post office messenger, court…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… lawyers in every one of these towns to take matters to court. When a native worker who was our member was dismissed … many farmers who were members of the…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… Africa,” in Saul Dubow and Alan Jeeves, South Africa’s 1940: World of Possibility (Cape Town: Double Storey: 2005), … of the pre-1948 city (and, more…
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of …
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… a 19 year old boy, testified in the Port Elizabeth Supreme Court that the people who accused him of being a police … Mnyalatyo in the bedroom and killed him…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… which he did wholeheartedly. Shortly before the outbreak of WW2 he returned to England and joined … he felt it necessary to live among them. …
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… era, little attention was paid to what transpired once the court cases concluded and the sentences were determined. In … unless first it was made public as…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few … could hire offices: it was owned by…
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… considerable reluctance that I applied for leave to appear before this Committee, recognising, as I did, the supreme … to abandon. Today some thirty…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates` Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few … could hire offices: it was owned by…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
… South African Indian Congress should have been consulted before such a statement was made. Even India should have been … Congress and the wing led by Dr…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates' Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street was one of the few … could hire offices: it was owned by…
EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… with eggs and cool drink cans while leaving the Supreme Court in Cape Town. She blamed the attack on the apartheid … provoked the attack on her. Mandela was…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… protesters, including Mkhize, left Durban by bus the day before the demonstration. [14] Upon reaching Pretoria, they … prison. [28] She appeared in the…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… got embroiled in a bitter verbal exchange. Two weeks before the crash, the South African government accused Machel … Machel was preparing to leave for Zambia…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… of the elections, 200 opposition candidates filed a High Court application to challenge the electoral process and demand access to electoral papers. When the…