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Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996
… evoke sadness. The striving for nationhood required long struggle and bitter hardship. The oppressors and colonisers … fell victim to conquest;those who fell…
EventEmily Chinea is the first woman to be officially executed in SA
Emily Chinea became the first woman in the Free State and South Africa to be officially executed after being found guilty of murdering her husband. The Star of…
EventLord Baden-Powell’s sister, Agnes, establishes the Girl Guides Movement
The Girl Guide movement shares its roots with the Boy Scout movement that was founded by Baden-Powell during the South African War of 1899-1902. During the war…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… ANC, and built cooperation across “racial” lines in the struggle against apartheid tyranny. But the campaign had to … the apartheid regime. Mandela sensed…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… township to honour those who lost their lives during the struggle. Langa means “sun” in Xhosa but it was named after: … and warm community spirit. It played…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… Missions and was at the fore of mobilisation of the armed struggle and guerrilla campaigns against apartheid. When ANC …
EventMandela visits Zambia
… Kenneth Kaunda that the ANC should suspend its armed struggle in order to encourage further reforms on the part of …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… launched his hymn into prominence as an anthem of Black struggle against oppression. Because of vandalisation of …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… It is the year in which we celebrate 100 years of Selfless Struggle by the people of South Africa led by the ANC. It is … including those who were not born…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… Sam Matiase says the ongoing struggle to reclaim stolen land is epitomised by the events … Massacre, which marks 94thanniversary this year. The struggle…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… not only because of inflation and the demands of the struggle, but also due to the fact that "we have no other … the Party and the ANC. First, were the…
Stuart Commission Report
… a general belief that there was a "lull" in the military struggle such stories, whether true or false, found fertile … there were some people who were trying…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… of liberation. What has now become a heritage site of our struggle was the ultimate prize he paid for his beliefs and …
ANC mourns the passing on of Mama Regina Nzo, 27 September 2011
… a source of strength for the ANC as we carry on with the struggle for a better society. Details for her funeral …
PlaceSteve Biko Bridge, East London
… Biko’s death; one of South Africa's great leaders in the struggle against apartheid. One of the most vital aspects of …
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Miller, with a tail piece by William Papas. The Unending Struggle for the Freedom of the Press, Sir Linton Andrews. …
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… we Sizwe (MK) with the intention to prepare for an armed struggle against the apartheid government. In 1962 He was …
EventNational Heritage Day celebrates South African cultural diversity
… to be “celebrating heroes and heroines of our liberation struggle”. This is in reference to the African National …
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… the police tried to turn him against his colleagues in the struggle. His response was: "They asked me if I was prepared … SACP 65 Years in the Frontline…
EventWell-known political activist and academic, Dr. Neville Alexander is born
… proposed the adoption of guerilla warfare in the struggle against apartheid. In 1962, after the YCCC was …
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… of police did not stop mourners from reaffirming the struggle for which Aggett died by singing revolutionary …
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… Assembly re-affirmed the legitimacy of the region's struggle against apartheid and the legitimacy of armed …
Document 26 - Letter from Patrick Duncan to John Gomas, 3 October 1956
… only in the future South African state, but also in the struggle that is going to produce that State. If you have …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South …
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… of the Eastern Cape decided to honour this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It is … and dedicated cadre of our movement, an…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… and attempting to assert working class leadership of the struggle for democracy. His cultural work gave him priveleged … would bring, what the outcome of…
Address by President, Nelson R. Mandela, at the funeral of Martin Chris Hani FNB Stadium, Soweto, 19 April 1993
… - in the prisons, in mass campaigns, through the armed struggle that has brought the regime to the negotiating … table. And those negotiations are themselves…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… destroying these they cannot advance. Their allies in this struggle are natural and to hand; the rural workers and the … will carry home with them the same…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… concedes to the possibility that the ANC is prepared arm struggle and is prepared to negotiate for a peaceful … ANC into the next and it is hoped, the final…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… Inkatha became quite close with the exiled ANC in the struggle against the Apartheid regime. Yet, not long after, … leaders about the aims of the South…