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ArticleNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu’s “Mother of the Nation” Legacy
… and bold in her pursuit of justice for black oppressed South Africans under a ruthless government that stripped them … perfect sense because she sought…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… stature and influence. His work was read well beyond South Africa’s borders and even used as an example of how theory … members are a key part of attempts to…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… The leadership of the African National Congress of South Africa takes this opportunity again to congratulate Your … the focus of attention of the peoples of…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Second Annual Raymond Mhlaba Memorial Lecture, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 12 October 2009, Port Elizabeth
… led the struggle to unite the nation, and to bring about a South Africa that belongs to all our people, black and white. It is … crisis. The crisis was not…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
… each of the Prime Ministers who governed white-dominated South Africa in the era between the two Bothas. This University was … and warmth as the head of…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
… His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, … stimulate the economy, mainly…
Address as Chairperson of the Non-Aligned Movement at the Opening of the South Summit, Havana 12 April 2000
… Chairperson of the South Summit, President Olusegun Obasanjo, Our esteemed host, … Summit. At its XII Summit Conference in Durban, South Africa in 1998, the…
EventJody Scheckter
… born in East London, Eastern Cape .[i] Scheckter became South Africa’s first and thus far only Formula One World Driver’s Championship winner in 1979.[ii]…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… 2012] Until 1750 (29 years before the First Frontier War), migrant farmers rapidly advanced rapidly into the … of cattle theft by Xhosas had become so common…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… His critics (e.g. colleagues in the National Union of South African Students, Sobukwe, Mandela, Pallo Jordan) … competence-honesty-based development in a…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… breaking up the economic and political set-up of present South Africa." "To win these demands," he continued, "calls for the … , without dragging the people…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… South Africa, Johannesburg, Poert Mzwakhe Mbuli, UDF concert 1989 … above ground, forming closer relations with Congress of South African Trade Unions …
Domestic work
… this is the growing realisation by an increasing number of South Africans that only a negotiated understanding among the … who identify yourselves with the…
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… the Area was moved to the Farm; 'Klipspruit', twelve Miles South-West of the City. This Settlement became Johannesburg’s … Sisulu Square in the heart of…
Mobilise World Support for African Liberation Struggle - Statement, on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 9 April 1973
… as the practical measures and material assistance that the world community was prepared to give the liberation movements … growing offensives against the…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … gravest contention and has awakened the…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… Beyers Naudé former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of … in my lifetime’ - that is a non-racial…
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… in general help cement her reputation as a supporter of South Africa's Apartheid regime. Throughout the summit Thatcher … "white regime" in the immediate…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… in the struggle for truth, justice, freedom and peace in South Africa. It was to be a vigil of tribute and it drew an … For good measure, the widely read…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… years and to give insight into a character who was one of South Africa`s most important historical figures. Secondly, the … written as it was by the recently…
PlaceCaledon, Cape Overberg
… in the Overberg region in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, located about 113 Kilometres (70 mi) east of Cape … organic matter and when submitted,…
Oration by the ANC Gauteng Chairperson Paul Mashatile at the funeral service of the late Ephraim Motlalepula Nkoe, 11 May 2013, Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto
… elected him to be the head of political education in the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO). His passion for … and humane society; a society at peace with…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… people. I would like to put on record, on behalf of all South Africans, our great appreciation to the Government and … the ideal of a democratic, non-racial,…
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
… The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was … deployed in South African townships and who fought in the war in Namibia. President F. W. de…
New tactics in the revolt
… one man, one vote. The only way that he knew for governing South Africa was 'by the policy and principles of the Nationalist … present, and they protected…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… Book Fair taking place from 25-26 October 2013 at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg. This is the fair for … public! The theme of the Fair is ‘Reading…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … in other countries, and their co-operation on a world scale through the Women's…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… ‘After being a man of the world, I have discovered there is no Zulu, Xhosa, Mosotho or … spotlight. ‘AFRICANS ARE NOT REGARDED WITH MUCH FAVOUR IN SOUTH…
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… Secretary of the National Action Council during the All Africa Conference attended by 1 400 delegates from 145 … to cooperate or collaborate in any way with…
Address by President Mandela at ECOWAS Abuja, 30 October 1998
… for me personally also my final visit as the President of South Africa and Chairman of SADC. I thank you most sincerely for … by our two regions of West and…