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A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
… groups are participating in organised actions of people`s war. Growing contingents of the oppressed people are … they shall impart to them the skills of…
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
… regime. We characterised the conference as a council-of-war for the obvious reason that even as we opened our … murder of innocent people in Gaborone…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… regime. We characterised the Conference as a council-of-war for the obvious reason that even as we opened our … murder of innocent people in Gaborone…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… at the Cape Bar and who was until the outbreak of the war a Judge under Kruger's regime in Swaziland. He wrote me … population in the position in which they…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… massive influx of Africans to white cities following World War Two. 5 The National Party won the election of 1948 on a … created as an international…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Growing up, he experienced notable events such as World War I and the 1917 October Revolution and became involved … and other instances of significant…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… South Africa, in fighting the MPLA, was willing to go to war because it saw in the MPLA the demise of apartheid rule … and South Africans. Taking on South…
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… Congo subsequently was plunged into a devastating civil war; the conflict officially ended in 2003, although fighting …
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
… after, the Confederate Raider, CSS Alabama, which was a War Vessel built, in 1862. The Confederate States Navy …
PlaceKoopmans de Wet House, 35 Strand Street, Cape Town
… Legion who emigrated to South Africa after the Crimean War. After the death of Koopmans in 1880, the two sisters …
PlaceGreen Point
… by the addition of a new tower. During the South African War of 1899-1902, Green Point common was used by the Military …
Cable to the United Nations, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 25, 1948
… were endeavouring to regain freedom they had lost during war; Indonesia, India and Palestine were all striving for it …
Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… from against the Native Bills and the Italo-Abyssinian War. As you are aware, we have several times approached you …
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… "white regime" in the immediate context of a coup or civil war, as the context of the original question suggested, but …
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… carrying all the characteristics of an undeclared civil war. The Massacre On 21 January 1987 several men armed with …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… the anti-communist group, UNITA during the Angolan Civil War as well as the secret nuclear collaboration with Israel, …
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… with the Workers and Peoples United Front to fight against War and Fascism. …
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… completed in 1945, after being delayed by the Second World War. A 230ha tract of Foreshore Land was created in the …
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… like Omar’s, or an orientation towards the European and Anglo-American marketplace.” “What people forget,” Badsha …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… Group, Steve Booysen, Chief Executive Officer, Anglo American South Africa, Lazarus Zim, Distinguished …
PlaceBotswana
… Beers Diamond Consortium. Today 85% per cent is owned by Anglo American and 15 per cent by the Government of the …
PlaceSenekal
… of the fallen Boers of Senekal during the South African War , as other fallen soldiers. …
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
Founded as a Missionary Station in 1826, King William’s Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British Kaffraria and as a centre for…
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
Piet Retief completes the manifesto that sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's Town…
PlaceNamibia
… In 1907, the death of Marengo brought about the end of the war of resistance. Many of the surviving Nama and Herero were … in order to develop the colony…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… in The Fort for his stance against participation in World War I . In 1931 Hertzog and others formed Afrikaanse Pers … earlier on 16 December 1838. After the…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… a constant refrain from many rural churches. By the inter-war years Transkei Anglican missionaries were increasingly … were indigenous ideas of manliness…
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
… been achieved to the chagrin of our enemies. We are at War! The liberation movements and over thirty million oppressed Africans that they represent are at…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… vital to place in the field persons trained in the art of war who will act as a nucleus of organisers and commanders of … from this. Although we must prepare…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… prisoners is the question of granting prisoner-of-war status to the gallant freedom fighters of our country. … fighters like these should be treated as…