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ArchiveNelson Mandela: The struggle is my life: A pictorial exposition
… white poster showing three photographs by Eli Weinberg. One a portrait of Nelson Mandela. One a portrait of Mandela boxing and one of Mandela with Yusuf…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the academic year at the University of Stellenbosch on 22 February 1971
… and their destiny. Of all the important issues that one discusses and reflects upon in the years of one's boyhood, in a country like South Africa, this…
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… copy; failing which somebody ought to be able to lend you one. Try Brian Bunting. I think you are mistaken in … there is any particular virtue in a black…
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… it is the grassy Plateaus and the easy Slopes that allow one to think one has entered the Karoo. Or it is the Town's prettiness and … Zuurberg Mountains in…
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… Democratic Front Which is uniting the people to speak with one voice. Which is uniting the people to tell the truth … celebrate a baby that was born on this…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… a dress! " Quote: "It was fairly straightforward that one of the things we had to do was to seek to establish a … PW Botha is now in heaven or in hell: "God…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… The YCL helped to form a Strike Prisoners Committee. One of the tasks that the YCL members embarked on was a … of the Executive Committee as a representative…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… place along racial lines. AZAPO adopted the slogan - 'One Azania, one Nation’. After its formation the AZAPO organised a … intensified. Three of them,…
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… in our country. And today, we proudly celebrate one hundred and one years of the African National Congress, the oldest … law enforcement agencies fight…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… of the National House of Traditional Leaders; The Heads of Chapter 9 Institutions; The Governor of the Reserve Bank; Ms … unemployment. Honourable members,…
Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
… of the National House of Traditional Leaders; The Heads of Chapter 9 Institutions; The Governor of the Reserve Bank, … Experience shows that we succeed when…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… in our country. And today, we proudly celebrate one hundred and one years of the African National Congress, the oldest … law enforcement agencies fight…
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… if the third attempt would finally earn Coetzee the big one. Coetzee won the match by knock out in the tenth, and went from the boxer known as ‘the one who…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… of South African Workers’ Unions (CONSAWU)), into one federation called the South African Confederation of … that the leadership of the federation must be…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… as it caused political conflict and cultural dominance by one group. The report called for the replacement of the … executive presidency created a very…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… Thus the return of land to its ancestral owners became one of the central themes around which opposition to white … among eastern Cape Africans for many…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… South Africans are across the globe, our hearts beat as one, as we renew our common loyalty to our country and our … beautiful land will again experience the…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
… It is indeed a very special honour to receive not one Honorary Doctorate but two, and not from one prestigious institution of learning but two! I will ……
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
… selflessly to building it on the ground. And, no one can doubt that if humanity is today poised to enter an … his eight years in office was that he saw to it…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 22 April 1976 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… on speculation, and then put out as feelers. Subsequently one is continually asked for one's comment on such reports. Consequently it does not matter what…
PlaceDan Pienaar, suburb of Bloemfontein
… a tranquil, upmarket suburb in Bloemfontein - regarded as one of the safest suburbs in the country! It is an excellent place to raise one’s family. It is…
EventThe Proteas become the first South African team in history to win a Test cricket series in Australia
… South African national cricket team, The Proteas, is one of the most successful national teams in the country and … for such a young team. They are currently…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… Africa today realizes this only too well, and that is why one has such a calm and peaceful situation here in South … occurred. On the contrary, it is an…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where … no difference. Since the end of apartheid in the 1990s no one has been spared by the violence…
Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 53 - Remarks of … of the question which we have just…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… more radical ideas coming to the fore, Josiah Gumede being one of the most prominent from this group. In 1927 Gumede …
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… as an independent, non-racial trade union. Amongst one of the companies where the union organised from 1973 was …
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… a vital role in continuing to extend, in the words of one of its founders, "a brotherly hand to any disciple of …
Passage to Natal - The Journey
… and children). A total of 29 persons died at sea while one person was listed as "not shipped". Between 1860 and …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… begins today, and it must be done by all of us, as one united ANC. KEY ANNIVERSARIES AND EVENTS During the … a living organism of people`s power. We need to…