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Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… Comrade Professor Doctor Rathmann, esteemed rector of Karl Marx University, Members of the Central Committee of … of people who create wrong expectations on…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… Labour to use his powers under Section 4 (a) of the Wage Act (No. 44 of 1937) to order the Wage Board to investigate … the expectations of our members by…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… Indian labourers are also entitled to a gift of crown land and full citizenship rights. This proviso was later withdrawn with the proclamation of Act No. 25…
ArchiveOf youth
… Of youth …
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.
… Honourable Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu, Honourable Premier of Gauteng, … 1905 when Africans were forcibly removed and through this act, an indelible…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… skill has arrogated to itself the ownership of the land and invested itself with authority and the right to … forty years shows what a bluff Trusteeship is…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… South Africa from Latvia where she was born on 12 January 1913. After her arrival in the country she realized that many workers in the Cape Town area and in…
ArchiveSubbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance" - University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
… UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN‑WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT … much of forethought to realise the ramifications of your act. But you do realise…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… After becoming Prime Minister of South Africa in 1966, John Vorster met with Hendrik van … of Van den Bergh, through the Public Service Amendment Act of 1969…
EventMass funeral for the victims of Bisho massacre
… King William's Town, to pay their respects to the victims of the Bisho Massacre, who were shot to death by the Ciskei … as Walter Sisulu, Chris Hani and…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… Mr. Chairman, Esteemed Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Ministers and fellow … new India was responsible for that early and outstanding act of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… Today, we mark the 87th Anniversary of the birth of the African National Congress. Since its … of our country. None of us should hesitate to expose and act…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… tribal sovereignty, allocating and distributing land and settling land disputes, providing spiritual … in colonial Natal. Theophilus Shepstone, the Secretary…
ArchiveReport of the four working groups of the consultation of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches South Africa region
… Memorandum containing the report of the four working groups of the consultation of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches South Africa … Report of the four…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the … still has large areas of underutilised or unproductive land. There are around 250,000…
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
… In July 1939 at a meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg under the chairmanship of E. I. Asvat, a decision was taken to…
BiographyAaron Sipho Madondo
… Aaron Sipho Madondo, the last of 11 children in his family was born on 6 August 1958 in … the Soweto student revolt in 1976, Madondo dropped out of school…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… Ladies and Gentlemen. I stand before you fully conscious of the historic significance of this moment. South Africa has … and what is the New Patriotism…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… Philip Kgosana led a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) march of between 30.000-50.000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga to … White South Africans armed themselves…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… Workers Union and S.A. Garment Workers Union. Coloured, Native, Indian, Malay and European leaders of these … Native Laws Amendment Bill, Amendment to the…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
… Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for … They shed rivers of blood to remain a free people in the land which…
PlaceOur Lady of Montserrat Catholic Church, Betty's Bay
… Our Lady Of Montserrat in Betty's Bay, Western Cape is a Christian … to be known by the Love we have for one another. Our Lady Of Montserrat is denominated…
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… The fall of the of the fortress town of Tobruk was a major blow to the Allied forces during World … and equipment as well as containing substantial number of…
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
… Special Committee against Apartheid on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with the South African Political … the system of apartheid which denies them…
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front, their names are Nthatho Harrison … National Congress, Eric Mafuna he was the president of black…
EventBus drivers strike because of lack of protection
… Bus drivers, who were members of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), a COSATU affiliate, went on strike because of lack of protection from…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 2 - Human Models: Christianity and Capitalism
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner Our first step in theorizing … production. The rest of the population, having no tools or land of…
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… the genocide is usually identified as the shooting down of an airplane carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana … Commander Lieutenant General Dallaire…
Indian Community
… 2010 marks 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Indian indentured workers and the birth … Indians. After completing their indenture, many rented land to…
EventSouth African War: Thousands of Black men and women forced to walk home
… With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War (or South African War) imminent, thousands of Black men and women were left stranded in Johannesburg. ……