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Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Heads of State and Government, Esteemed delegates, Comrades, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the national…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… The University of Cape Town is South Africa's oldest University! UCT is also one of Africa's leading Teaching and Research Institutions, with … Schuur on the…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… released and the exiles began the journey back to the land of their birth. In the course of a mere decade, we ended … suffer. However, I am certain that we…
PlaceBraamfontein, a Suburb of Johannesburg
… the Nelson Mandela Bridge – Joburg’s landmark equivalent of Cape Town’s Table Mountain – Braamfontein is fast becoming … to the 1930's. During the Economic…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… towns continued. Many Afrikaners who were still on the land also began to drift into the towns, creating what was … moved to urban areas. The 1923 Natives …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… on apartheid laws such as the pass laws , the Group Areas Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the … on 26 June. A group of 52 were arrested at…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… humans inhabited what has since become the desolate Sahara of northern Niger. Long before the arrival of French influence and control in the area, Niger was…
BiographyHerbert Mekutu
… Detained during the 1960 State of Emergency . Banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . Prohibited from attending gatherings. Forbidden from …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians
… racial arrogance. Dr Jansen asks for Repeal of Tenure Act Johannesburg, Wednesday: Dr E.G. Jansen, the Nationals … manifesto calls for: 1. The repeal of the…
Chronology
… tables the Representation of Natives Bill and the Native Trust and Land Bill October , Italy attacks Ethiopia December, Coloured … 2 , AAC reconvenes 1937…
BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
… Docrat was born in the village of Kathor, India on 15 September 1915. His grandfather was a … entering the country, as he was not accompanied by any one of…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… on them. It introduced the Suppression of Communism Act in 1950. However, in a determined reaction, the … Germany, was the main ideologue of apartheid. He…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… Today, January 8, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. Through … from all previous years. A new spirit is…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
… "For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I … even try to understand, to open up the whole world of my…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
… in the Free State Province where her father was Dean of the Theological School at the Wilberforce Institute of the African Methodist Church (A.M.E.) In…
BiographyJeffrey Thamsanqa Radebe
… In 1958, his family was evicted to KwaMashu, north of Durban. He enrolled at the University of Zululand to study law. On campus he joined the Black … being…
BiographyBertha Gxowa (Mashaba)
… Bertha Gxowa was born on the 28th of November 1934, in Germiston Location where she spent her … Primary School and then the Public Secondary School, both of…
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
… Castro, I have been assigned the great honour, as leader of the African National Congress delegation, to propose a … delegates. We greet you on this soil of…
BiographyBarend de Wet
… his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the playfulness in the creative act and the ostensible freedoms…
BiographyBaruch Hirson
… were subjected to in the old Romanov empire. At the age of four, Hirson was enrolled at the Talmud Torah, a Hebrew … and studied as a part-time student at…
BiographyMary Malete
… Mary Malete was the president of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the first president of … Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 98th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2010
… and Compatriots It is now 98 years since the founding of our movement - the African National Congress. It has been … taking up the issues they have raised…
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … was not enough gold to make them all…
Search for a United Front against racism
… is a euphemism for oppression and domination. The Native Representation Act of 1936 was not only a misrepresentation of the Africans, … of Assent is not new…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… in 1854, and included those who were in possession of land and who may have been able to claim their right to it. … in any way. Later, a White representative…
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… Africa in 1902 to preside over the transition to the Union of South Africa that became a reality in 1910. Milner arrived … Union of South Africa even before…
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… embrace African-centred belief systems, including notions of how humanity and the world came into being. Ngubane was … she was appointed a member of the…
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… more or less permanently in the Union has become as "native" and fixed a feature of the local picture as this … the destitution of millions of peasants,…
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… When The Awakening of A People was first published in 1950, it was intended for … to run dummy (segregated) elections under the fraudulent "Native…
76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
… view to the same disabilities as the African. The Union's Native policy and Indian policy are reflections of the white … get out of his dilemma by trying to…