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Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
1. Introduction - The Launch of the Manifesto 1.1 It is with great pleasure that I stand before you today during this important phase in the democratisation…
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
Vasco da Gama's Voyage of "Discovery" The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted commas is because the land was not, as so many explorers argue,…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
Letter Wrttten by Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, Leader of the White Opposition United Party, 23 May 1961. Sir De Villiers Graaff, Leader of the…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
1. Introductory Notes These submissions to the Constitutional Assembly come at the end of the process of public participation in drawing up our new…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in Cape Town. Ottilie…
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
Journalist, author and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Lewin has died, aged seventy-nine. Lewin passed away at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg yesterday. …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
Xenophobic violence against foreign nationals in South Africa has worsened. South Africa witnessed widespread xenophobic attacks since 1994 in provinces such…
The Atlantic slave trade
Causes and results of slavery A main cause of the trade was the colonies that European countries were starting to develop. In America, for instance, which was…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, "The Opening…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
Tomorrow, April 26, 1994, an historic event will take place in South Africa, 18 year old and over, men and women, black and white, will go to the polls to…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
The Chairperson, Comrade Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC, Members of the National Executive Committee, Regional Leaders, Commanders of…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
(Speech at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the President General of the African National…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work", (Editorial),…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
Vice-Minister of Education, Madame Wei Yu, President of the University, Professor Wang Dazhong, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: First of all, let…
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies, distinguished representatives and guests: Permit me first of all, Sir, to express the gratitude of the African National…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
The Tribal Model of DemocracyIn his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial for inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country without a passport,…
The melody of freedom
A reflection on music Riot policeman Erasmus shot seventeen-year-old Mngcini 'Big Boy' Mginywa from Grahamstown at a funeral because, he told the judge, the…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
Three documents, fundamental changes that took place in black protest politics and African nationalist thinking during the 1940s, particularly in the African…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
WHITHER PALESTINE ? Ronnie Kasrils, Middle East Monitor, London 19 May, 2015. 1. INTRODUCTION: It is an honour to have been invited to present this…
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
We are marking two important occasions in the history of our protracted struggle at a time when the revolutionary fervour amongst all sections of the black…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. With a strong work ethic and passion for wine, he soon built up a…
Address by Jacob Zuma marking the Commemoration of the International Day of persons with disabilities, during the State visit by President Rupiah Banda of Zambia, 03 December 2010
Excellency President Rupiah Banda and Mrs Banda and your delegation, Ministers and senior officials, Adelaide Tambo Skills Development Centre stakeholders, …
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
Introduction: I have just returned from Juba, South Sudan last night. I led an ANC delegation which attended Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a century the probing…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
We are marking two important occasions in the history of our protracted struggle at a time when the revolutionary fervour amongst all sections of the black…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life. The…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
THE present ANC is not 100 years old. It abandoned the fundamental objectives of the original 1912 ANC more than 50 years ago.In 1955, a section of the 1912…
PlaceNiger
Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were both named after the Niger River that flows through…