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Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… is a rebuke, it is also, we must believe, a pledge to struggle together against racism: above all in South Africa … Africa. Our country is now the site of a…
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… outstanding contribution and sacrifice to the liberation struggle. Isithwalandwe, literally translated, means "the one …
Remember Soweto 16 June 1976
… the views and experiences of a key turning point in the struggle against apartheid. It would be much appreciated if …
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… Hospital in honor of her contribution to the freedom struggle. …
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… proved to be the beginning of what would become years of struggle with the authorities for a free press. Fairbairn …
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… in the uprisings, and celebrates the students’ role in the struggle for freedom. The monument and memorial have been …
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… many young South Africans in the 70’s was involved in the struggle. He was arrested in the mid 70’s and served time in …
EventWinnie Mandela released from banning order and house arrest
… League (ANCWL), along with other legends of the women's struggle like Lilian Ngoyi, Florence Matomela and Frances …
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… the Baobab in Gold for her exceptional commitment to the struggle against apartheid, and her dedication to community …
EventStudents at Durban
… (UDW) owing to political activism and a continuing struggle between the Azanian Students' Movement (AZASM) and …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… for Non-Violence for his commitment and role during the struggle against apartheid in 1986. Tutu was honoured for …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… and Harvard have awarded her honorary doctorates. Her struggle against apartheid won her the United Nations Human …
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… political activists in South Africa during the liberation struggle, as it resonated with the challenges faced by the …
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… about to come back to South Africa and continue with the struggle they had been involved in ever since their …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… Organisation (SWAPO), aligned to the ANC in a liberation struggle against South Africa’s occupation of Namibia, then …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… of the SAIC, said that this was the beginning of a struggle against 300 years of oppression. The Defiance …
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… her autobiography, Call me Woman. The book highlights her struggle with domestic violence during her first marriage. …
New Age
… Africa, it's people, and their sufferings for the common struggle for liberation and freedom. …
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… place of the white man in this—popularly called—liberation struggle. I am firmly non-racial and so welcome the participation of all, both black and white, in…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… Two figures played the most significant role in this new struggle: SJ du Toit and JH ‘Onze Jan’ Hofmeyr. The First … although a number of these did join the…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… Finally, the SRC sees any battle as part of the overall struggle. The exams issue was a specific battle with Admin … is boycott and that students are in the…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… like him who have unreservedly dedicated themselves to the struggle for freedom; but there are still far too many who do not take the struggle seriously or…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… would become one of the premier freedom fighters in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. She would also … she became the face of women in prison…
Chapter 13
… as a whole to boycott all elections under the Act and to struggle for full citizenship rights." Here we see before us, … as a whole to boycott all elections…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… to acknowledge the WBC's role, in adding strength to the struggle for liberation by bringing the considerable force of … maturing of our transition to…
Statement at the 19th African-American Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 12 January 1989
… In one country after another, the blacks have, through struggle, gained the political rights they seek. Where the … the political rights they have fought for…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the 19th African-American Conference, 12 January 1989, Lusaka
… In one country after another, the blacks have, through struggle, gained the political rights they seek. Where the … the political rights they have fought for…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… of Chief Luthuli to the international pillar of our struggle. He was actually the first South African to call for … that was to gather untold momentum in…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the European parliament Strasbourg, 13 June 1990
… a non-racial democracy. What all this means is that the struggle against apartheid must continue. We have not yet … system. It is for this reason that we…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… which was to serve as a guide to the African people in the struggle for liberation. The Programme of Action indicated a definite form of struggle for the…