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ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… modest financial assistance for Oliver Tambo , Nelson Mandela and Robert Resha , who were attending a conference … the first MK group in Odessa in the USSR…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… the passing the Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Comrade Nelson Mandela. The ANC expresses its sincere gratitude to every … that shall be in South Africa to console…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… Transvaal struck after a bitter, two year struggle for recognition by the Black Allied Mine and Construction Workers … will even quote Alan Paton and Desmond…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… THE 1950s? SOURCE 3A Below is a source which illustrates Mandela’s understanding of Ghandi’s policy of non-violence. Nelson Mandela describes a discussion…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… changed when Nehru asked the delegation to press for the recognition of the rights of all peoples of the world. … such as Walter Sisulu, A.P. Mda, Oliver…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… of the people as a whole”¦" Here was embodied the recognition of the working class that the achievement of … private ownership of the means of production. …
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… Great gains have been made since Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The first is that the old … seem to forget that our purpose was in the words of…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… Africa’s democratic constitution. Nkoli campaigned for the recognition and inclusion of gay and lesbian rights within …
PlaceRosebank, Cape Town
… African Artist who received International and National recognition during her lifetime, is possibly the smallest …
”Joint Declaration of Cooperation.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma of the ANC, Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress, and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress, March 9, 1947
… Economic and Industrial rights and opportunities and the recognition of African Trade Unions under the Industrial …
EventGerman Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, dies on this day
… made a field marshal, the youngest in the German Army, in recognition of his success in forcing the British back from …
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… The protocol states that every woman has the right “to the recognition and protection of her human and legal rights.” It …
ArchiveAfrican National Congress Consultative Conference: Speeches and Resolutions
… speech by Oliver Tambo, keynote address by Nelson R Mandela, declaration of the conference, resolution on … in Johannesburg, 16 December, 1990, and speech by…
EventUS President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town
… success." The Clintons were hosted by President Nelson Mandela, who also accompanied them to Robben Island, where Mandela had spent 18 years in prison. …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… who, on 2 February, 1990 announced the release of Nelson Mandela as well as the unbanning of political parties. Subsequently, Mandela was released from…
EventUDF distances itself from Madikizela
… about the organisation's suspicion of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's behaviour after the death of Stompie Seipei. The … and it was also closely associated with…
EventANC dismisses proposals to postpone elections
… Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress (ANC), … Development and Communications Roelf Meyer supported Mandela in saying that deferment was…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… he was instrumental, along with Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, in forming the ANC Youth League (1944). He was … for planning acts of sabotage. The…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… After the first democratic elections of 1994, President Mandela proclaimed 21 March a public holiday as a way of … place of history in school and university…
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
… his banishment in June 1961 Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki secretly met and discussed the … He served as political commissar of MK with…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight were Nelson Mandela , the central figure in the trial, along with Dennis … Andrew Mlangeni , Elias Motsoaledi and…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… general elections, Thabo Mbeki, who had replaced Nelson Mandela as the party's leader, became the second Black … held at the Union Buildings, during which…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… massacre, the assassination of detainees such as Steve Biko, the execution of opponents like Solomon Mahlangu, the …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… Port Elizabeth and Durban. 1962 January, Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa for military training. March, Mandela receives training from the Algerian…
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… the supporters of the two leaders. President Nelson Mandela was drawn into the conflict when he was invited as a … by a military helicopter to Johannesburg…
PlaceKroonstad
… there was a Population of 23,994 people. In 1975, Winnie Mandela was incarcerated here at the Kroonstad Prison. In … February 1975, our founding President,…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… year. Black Consciousness and the Student movement Steve Biko Alongside these infiltration activities, new youth and … in the Black Consciousness (BC)…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… society. Other symbols include the constitutional recognition of eleven official languages. The South African …
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… PW Botha met and had tea with the imprisoned Nelson Mandela. People have been able to march in their hundreds of … for tougher sanctions against South Africa…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… and urge the South African government to give full recognition to the Africans participating in the war. … about the letter. June, I. B. Tabata writes to…