Speeches and Public Statements

Message by President Nelson Mandela on National Reconciliation Day, 16 December 1995

Speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993

Joint Statement on the Durban Riots, by A. W. G. Champion of the ANC (Natal) and Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress [n.d.]

Press Comments made by South African President Thabo Mbeki and President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila, Tuynhuys, Cape Town, Thursday, 14 June 2007

Toast Remarks by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in honour of His Excellency, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Joseph Kabila and Madame Kabila, on the occasion of the State Banquet, Tuynhuys, 14 June 2007

Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005

Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Toast Remarks by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Palais Du Peuple, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 30 November

Speech at the Unveiling of the Samora Machel Memorial, Mbuzini, Tuesday 19 January 1999

Education Speeches by COSATU Office Bearers

The Martyrdom of Dr Hoosen Haffejee

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone

Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006

Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990

2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022

Chief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021

State President FW de Klerk - Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo, Norway – 10 December 1993

”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]

Address by President Nelson Mandela on the anniversary of the SOWETO Uprising on 16 June 1976 16 June 1994

65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo

Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990

Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain

”Racial problems in South Africa”, Speech by Oliver Tambo at the second Pan-African Youth Seminar Dar Es Salaam, 5 August 1961

2021 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2021

Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner

January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020

Speech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998

The Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012

Manifesto of the Communist Party of South Africa by SACP, 30 July 1921, Cape Town

Oral History: Representing the Hidden, the Untold and the Veiled, edited by Christina Landman, (2013)

Imperial Duty by John Ruskin, Oxford 8 February 1870

First Annual Denis Goldberg Lecture - Close the Gap, 6 October 2012

Memories of Bram Fischer by Denis Goldberg

The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995

Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria

Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa

The Enemy Hidden Under the Same Colour by the Central Committee of the SACP on the activities of the ‘Gang of 8’, 1976, South Africa

100 Years ‘Emancipation of Slaves’ by John Gomas, 1 December 1934, South Africa

A Helots’ Bill of Rights

State of African National Congress discussion document from ANC veterans and stalwarts

2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020