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Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
On behalf of the South African Youth Congress, whose leadership is working under most precarious conditions inside South Africa, I should like most sincerely…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
Honourable Deputy Chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly Members; Distinguished Guests. The brief seconds when the majority of Honourable Members quietly…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
Deputy President, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Minister in the Presidency responsible for youth affairs, Essop Pahad, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Premier of…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
POM I remember one of the main points, Archie, that you made two years ago when the violence broke out in the Transvaal was the absolute necessity for Mr…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Social Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
Report on Commissions 1. The two commissions received an input on major issues for discussion. The input took for granted that the discussion document that…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
Based on a speech at the University of Connecticut under the Auspices of UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights The tenth anniversary of the…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
I was very pleased to receive the invitation to make statement to the Special Committee against Apartheid on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the …
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
HEARD: The ANC is officially portrayed in South Africa as a communist, terrorist-type organisation, almost presented to the public as demons. Now, since the…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
[NOTE: In this statement at a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the …
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
0n this occasion the Prime Minister directed a special word to the youth of the Republic and pointed to the great responsibility that rested on it. Adv…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
When South Africa became a Republic, subversive elements intensified their attack on South Africa and her peoples. At this time Adv. Vorster perÂformed a…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
Webinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors: Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza The Making of the Trotskyist Tradition in South Africa: A…
PlaceMsunduzi River
The Msunduzi River flows through the center of Pietermaritzburg, the Capital of KwaZulu-Natal and is the namesake of the Msunduzi Municipality, where the City…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912 1 Since our last Congress the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
Analysis of the role of the SACP in formulating the development policies of the ANC: The case of the National Development Plan (NPD) Co-Authors: Lolonga…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), "Aspects of the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 94th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2006
Compatriots: On the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress, our movement salutes the people of South Africa and…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , "South Africa…
ArchiveMandela's release - what a day this was in our history
We worked frantically through the night to call together out activists and put all the logistics in place for a normal rally: designed and printed pamphlets…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic education made this…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON RECEIVING THE FREEDOM OF PIETERMARITZBURG Pietermaritzburg, 25 April 1997
Mayor Omar Latiff; Councillors; Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen, I feel deeply honoured to be awarded the Freedom of the City of …
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
"I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 87 - "Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention", The…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu The old order changeth; and so we behold today in the drama of the life of the South…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
- The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. - Mac Maharaj1 Introduction From about July 1985, the ANC faced a…
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
Mr President, Your Excellencies, Distinguished guests and delegates, In the evolution of mankind, humanity came to realise that life for each one of us…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
War photographers are either sleazy and glamorous, or noble and glamorous. At least this is what you will think if you believe the various literary or big…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
The Prime Minister's Koffiefontein speech is very well-known and in a certain sense also an interesting speech. Adv. Vorster took this opportunity to reply to…
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Founded in 1869 by American Board Missionaries, Inanda Seminary was the…