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EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… of the ANC, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation movements in April 1960. …
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… In 1956, he was arrested with other leaders of the liberation movement, and charged with High Treason. The …
EventThe Algerian War of Independence begins
… 1954, small units of Algerians organized by Front de Liberation National (FLN) attacked government buildings. …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… from the White government, it now became a militant liberation movement. The Programme of Action called on the …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… by its recognition of a visionary in the South African liberation struggle. Instead, Botha called Tutu a political …
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… that the government would negotiate in good faith with the liberation movement. According to Lyndall Beddy, President …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… to life. Reprieve came in 1991 when negotiations between liberation organisations and the apartheid government led to …
EventApartheid policemen apply for amnesty at TRC
… Amnesty Committee for their dirty tricks campaign against liberation organisations, in particular the African National …
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… African National Congress (ANC) and the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan-Africanist …
PlaceBalfour, near Johannesburg
… recreational activities – such as walking, hiking and lawn sports – are centred here. Otherwise play a round of golf at …
PlaceKingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban
Although it operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, this cricket ground in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal is more commonly referred to as…
PlaceNelson Mandela University, in Gqeberha
… purpose-built Campus which incorporated Residences, Sports Complex and the towering Main Building. The Campus was …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… of London. 18 June, The HSRC Press launches its Voices of Liberation series, with the first two books focusing on the …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… 5 in Bandung, Indonesia, as representatives of the liberation movement in South Africa. While travelling to the …
EventThe constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
The constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president. Other leading…
EventThe constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
The constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president. Other leading…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… did deal with politics. You find it even today among the sports; they are dealing with matters that concern politics. …
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
… visit to this great centre of struggle for national liberation in Africa. The African National Congress looks … back in the face of the apartheid offensive…
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… effort and sacrifice from every man and woman of our race. It means for all of us wherever we are and whoever we … and will remain what it is until you and I…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… effort and sacrifice from every man and woman of our race. It means for all of us wherever we are and whoever we … and will remain what it is until you and I…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… as open, above-ground organisations - units of the broad liberation front, defeating the attempts of the enemy to … of some of the teachings of the leaders…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… as open, above-ground organisations - units of the broad liberation front, defeating the attempts of the enemy to … of some of the teachings of the leaders…
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… role played by our African brothers and sisters in our own liberation, equally cognisant of their own suffering due to … tribute, not only to South Africans…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… by units of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the South African people`s liberation army. Last week, while a racist army was occupying … to retrieve them. The time for them…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… 2 1990. With the unbanning of the ANC , PAC and other liberation organisations, and the release of Nelson Mandela , … formed in 1959. The April 1994 general…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… Vol. 43.3-4 [Dec 2008]. Medu and the Culture of Liberation. 2011. South Africa History Online. [Online] … at: http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/medu-and…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… revered by those around him for his commitment to the liberation movement, years later, in the 1970s, Rosa is … paradoxically, of dominating the blacks in…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… to be when a child. It was as if her brain, running a race against the brains of white children, was very quick at … Mary Glenn (1925), which is not usually…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… campaigns simply as a preface to their calls for national liberation is misleading. While the food committees did …
Ndibhala Intando Yam: A Converstation on Translating "I Write What I Like" by Steve Biko
… stage in a conversation about language, power, access, and liberation. This is not just a translation. …