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EventNigerian women occupy ChevronTexaco oil terminal
On this day, approximately 600 Itsekiri women began a peaceful occupation of ChevronTexaco's Escravos oil terminal in the Niger Delta, demanding jobs for their…
EventAfrican Mineworkers' strike starts
A week long strike by African mineworkers, led by John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 78th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1990
… to stamp viciously and mercilessly on any person and organisation that threatens the survival of the apartheid … to function effectively. The goal of…
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… Command. We mark 50 years since the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity, which fought tirelessly to … outlook. Being non-racial in outlook and…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… Command. We mark 50 years since the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity, which fought tirelessly to … outlook. Being non-racial in outlook and…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… "... by means of agitation and mass demonstrations and organisation aimed at securing a generation stoppage of work … workers was nearly impossible. Attempts…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… the ANC and the people. Despite this progress, the work of organisation-building requires commitment and hard work. We … accelerate the fight against…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… Council which was to develop into the passive resistance organisation. And there was a third group, smaller in … was passed, preparatory to an appeal to the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… appreciates the efforts deployed by the United Nations Organisation and the international community to put maximum … coming period we shall require even more…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… of the South African Congress of Democrats, an organisation of the Europeans, which stands for equal rights for all, regardless of race or colour. This…
Speaking Notes for the President of the African National Congress, President Jacob Zuma, during the MKMVA National Conference, 12 October 2012
… exactly that, working for unity and also to renew the organisation and restore its core values. The task is ongoing … vigilant at all times!" The unity and…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… and, when the Italo-Abyssinian War broke out, a subsidiary organisation of this League sprang up with a fine-sounding … you must consider the advantage of…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… but such mistakes were inevitable with such a young organisation. "And yet, as an old Scotsman had put it," went … naked truth that we have been compelled…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa", Workers' Voice, 1, 1, July … 1946 Document 137 - Letter from the Fourth…
Document 46 - D. Tloome, “The Origin and Development of Non-European Trade Unions”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 27 February 1953, Viewpoints and Perspectives. L 1,21 February 1953
… DISCUSSION Mrs. Lipman. If it is a fact that the organisation of Non-European Trade Unions will never really … class conscious and this fact must affect the…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… and we closed the schools. We thought of forming an organisation that will put all the women together, so that at … will be easy if we speak with one voice…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… of the South African Congress of Democrats, an organisation of the Europeans, which stands for equal rights for all, regardless of race or colour. This…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… with the aims of opposing the Group Areas Act The organisation was founded by hnap 'Abdullah Haron. 1962 … students. The Islamic character of the Movement…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… is the day when we pause and reexamine ourselves and our organisation. Are we living up to what is expected of members of a revolutionary and fighting…
Links & Partnerships
… South African History Online, a not-for profit section 21 organisation. Claremont Historries - Memories, Stories and … Pan African Congress of Azania (PAC),…
Address by the Chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement, President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, to the NAM Ministerial Meeting United Nations, New York, 23 September 1999
… or have we allowed ourselves to be transformed into an organisation comprising governments that periodically speak … accountable and transparent governance…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… NUSAS. In 1968 the all-black South African Students' Organisation (SASO) was formed with Biko as its first … banning orders””Biko was elected Honorary…
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
… helped us to overcome many shortcomings and to gear our organisation to make a more effective contribution to the … the advance of our struggle and were…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
… helped us to overcome many shortcomings and to gear our organisation to make a more effective contribution to the … the advance of our struggle and were…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
Lamu Island is a Port, City, an Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mombasa. Lamu Old Town is the oldest and…
Statement of the Alliance Political Council, 13 October 2009
… Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African National Civic Organisation (SANCO), held its ordinary meeting yesterday, …
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… he questioned. The ANC President said that members of the organisation could go from Beitbridge to Cape Town, but if …
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… by threatening that it would be suspended from the organisation if it does not stop intervening in football. In …
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… in our rooting out all impurity and indiscipline from our organisation and making it the bright and shining instrument …
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… Bantu Steven Biko , leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and pioneer of the Black …