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Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
ANC provincial chairperson Comrade Supra Mahumapelo, ANC national chairperson Comrade Baleka Mbethe and all ANC Officials, NEC members and provincial…
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
Statement by Cde Jeff Radebe at the breakfast briefing The African National Congress will be holding its 51st National Conference, from 16-20 December 2002,…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established…
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency, Secretary General of the OAU, Distinguished Ministers, Fellow leaders of the National Liberation Movement, Your…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
Comrades and compatriots,It is an honour and a privilege to participate in this Freedom Charter Forum organised by the ANC Youth League.I wish to commend the…
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
Mr. President, Your Imperial Majesty, Your Royal Majesty, Your Excellencies and distinguished guests, Allow me on behalf of the liberation movements,…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
Towards the end of 2015 I sent the communication below to a fellow African to respond to some comments he had made on the matter of ‘Mbeki, HIV & AIDS’. We…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency, there were more than 100 sabotage attacks across the country. The government…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
Madam Speaker; Presiding Officers of the National Legislature; Premiers; and Honourable Members We meet today on the premises of the National Assembly to…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
Address by Nelson Mandela to Members of the British Parliament, London - United Kingdom5 May 1993Chairperson, My Lords, Distinguished Members of Parliament,…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
The Honourable President of the University, Esteemed Members of the Convocation, Distinguished Members of the Faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen. It is a…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President; Esteemed Members of the United States Congress; Your Excellencies, Ambassadors and Members of the Diplomatic Corps; …
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
Distinguished President of the International Labour Conference, Director-General of the ILO, Honourable delegates and observers, It is a matter of great…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
Sons and Daughters of Afrika! The Pan Africanist Congress was successfully launched as the liberation movement of the African people at a Convention held at…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
To the President-General and members of the Executive Committee of the African National Congress and the President and Councillors of the South African Indian…
Address to the National Health Summit, 19 November 2001
Minister of Health, Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang; MECs; Distinguished participants at this important Health Summit. Thank you very much for affording me the…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. K. Gandhi founded Indian Opinionin June 1903…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I drove back alone to Johannesburg, to my comfortable home in a white suburb, to my comfortable white life; my…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and hundreds of members,…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
Manenberg is a Township of Cape Town, South Africa, that was created by the Apartheid government, for low-income Coloured families in the Cape Flats and…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Into this sketchy collage which is Lesotho,…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
± 1000 BCE (Pre-colonial) Late Stone Age people (San/Tsam//Xam) teach their children how to hunt and gather food, skin animals, prepare and cook food and…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA. I was…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
The Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930 Indians began settling in Natal from 1860 when the first indentured workers arrived.1 They were followed from the mid-1870s…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march against a Bantu Education Department…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
From the book: Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education What were the turning points in southern Africa…
Chapter II - More of the same
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph After almost five years of house arrest, I was eagerly but anxiously looking forward to 31 October 1967, when the…
A History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
IntroductionIn the years following 1994, South Africa has become well known for its culturally diverse population and heritage (Fraser, 2005:11). The ways in…