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"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… Nehru? For, the struggle against the inhumanity of apartheid has featured many great men and women, whose … onslaught came not from Nazism but from…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… the United States government, the principal ally of the apartheid regime, has not hesitated to approve of the new … liberation. They are intent to ensure…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… the United States government, the principal ally of the apartheid regime, has not hesitated to approve of the new … liberation. They are intent to ensure…
EventDr Wouter Basson is acquitted
… Judge Willie Hartzenberg on forty-six charges of murdering apartheid opponents, conspiracy, drug possession and fraud. During the apartheid era Basson was in…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. During the 1950's, the apartheid government was continually introducing new means to … keep them permanently distinctive in a…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… undermines all the fundamental premises upon which apartheid bases its rule. Pretoria continuously seeks to … it has national, indeed, international…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… a renewed offensive by the African continent against the apartheid regime and in support of SWAPO and the ANC. We say … so-called reforms in South Africa,…
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… a renewed offensive by the African continent against the apartheid regime and in support of SWAPO and the ANC. We say … so-called reforms in South Africa,…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the … and boycotts to undermine the administration of the apartheid government…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… who was dubbed ‘the mother of the nation’ – took the apartheid system head-on, at the huge personal cost. Her life … her endorsement of violence to fight the…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been … of sanctions would significantly pressurize the apartheid…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… our region who have perished at the hands of the apartheid regime of terror. As a result of the murderous … of grief. Throughout our region, there are today…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… as well as their southern African co-fighters against apartheid. The ANC, formed in 1912 as the first African … world in a common struggle for peace and…
EventFormer Presidents de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
… rule who abandoned the unsustainable and untenable apartheid system towards a non-racial and democratic South Africa. This meant the release of anti…
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid, which was set up by the General Assembly under … and promote a comprehensive programme of action against…
ArticleAmbassador Lindiwe Mabuza and her connection with Scotland: An Appreciation by Brian Filling
… Africa in 1938, she spent much of her life in exile from apartheid South Africa at college in Lesotho, teaching in … the Philippines and the USA. Following…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… campaign in support of the struggle for the eradication of apartheid. In paying the well-deserved tribute to certain … but had also met with the persistent…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… It explores some of the turning points in the history of apartheid: the Sharpeville massacre, the Langa march, … moments. Students are taught to understand…
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
… omit to make reference to those of them who are held in apartheid prisons today - leaders like Nelson Mandela whose … of millions of people, principal…
A tribute to international solidarity support for Southern Africa
… Symposium. Today, exactly 40 years ago, the Anti-Apartheid Movement was launched in London at the request of … whom later played catalytic roles in fighting…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… the democratic elections in South Africa, and the end of apartheid rule, is being observed by people of many other … and to a new South Africa. They abhorred…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… committee member of the SACP, MK Chief of Staff and post apartheid’s first Minister of Housing is born in Lithuania. …
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … of the revolutionary forces, the dismantling of…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… can neither defuse nor halt. Within the confines of the apartheid system there is no way out of this crisis … of the revolutionary forces, the dismantling of…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… his 'Total Strategy' plan and policy of abolishing 'petty' apartheid. Botha envisaged the removal of some apartheid regulations, while entrenching 'grand'…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African … award recognised his unifying role…
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
… were officially instituted in the 1950s as a form of apartheid separate development and a way to strip Black South … citizenship. The argument from the point…
Statement at the International Labour Conference (extract) by O. R. Tambo, Geneva, 19 June 1986
… has entered a phase which marks the final days of the apartheid system of colonial and racist domination. The … This regime remains committed to the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Labour Conference,19 June 1986
… has entered a phase which marks the final days of the apartheid system of colonial and racist domination. The … This regime remains committed to the…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… element of the struggle for liberation in South Africa. 3 Apartheid managed to endure forty-six years in South Africa … critically elaborate on the intimate…