Speeches and Public Statements

The implications of the freedom charter, 1955

On the Rivonia Trial, June 12 1964

Africa and Freedom, 1961

Let us March Together to Freedom Opening address to the Sixth Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, February 21, 1953

Message to the Annual Conference of the African National Congress in Bloemfontein , 16-19 December 1955

A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953

Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901

MANDELA’S SPEECH AT THANKSGIVING FOR TUTU

Ms. Florence Maleka (ANC Women’s Section)

Miss Barbara MASEKELA (ANC Women’s Section)

The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917

Presidential Address African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa by I. B. Tabata, April 1962 [Extracts]

”The State of the Nation”. Address by R. M. Sobukwe, on “National Heroes’ Day”, August 2, 1959

Notes for a speech by President Nelson Mandela at Bleskop stadium, Rustenburg

From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]

Mrs. Gertrude Shope Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, August 11, 1981

"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961

Oliver Tambo Speech at Funeral in Maseru, December 1982

An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF

Web-published response by Thabo Mbeki to Archbishop Tutu ‘s 2004 Nelson Mandela Lecture

"Opening Address" at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952

Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949

44th National Conference: Letter on “certain tendencies” from Dr. A. B. Xuma, 18 December 1955

Presidential Address by SM Makgatho, South African Native National Congress, 6 May 1919

S.M. Makgatho, ANC Presidential Address, 6th May 1919

Address by the reverend John Langalibalele Dube after his election as president of the South African Native National Congress

ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST

COSATU STATEMENT ON THE ANC NEC’S DECISIONS

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION - Do Not Apologise To NP

Opening address by Oliver Tambo to the Conference on “Whites in a changing South Africa”, Convened by the five Freedoms Forum and the African National Congress, Lusaka, 1 July 1989

Speech by Oliver Tambo to the seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party, 1 April 1989

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party, Zambia, 2 August 1988

’Peace and development in our region’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at “War on want” Conference, London, 2 June 1988

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the 50th session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the liberation of Africa, Harare, 13 May 1988

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the conference on “SADCC`s future: Europe`s role”, Harare, 28 March 1988

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the Symposium on the survival and development of children in the frontline states and Southern Africa, Harare, 5 March 1988

Address by Oliver Tambo at the opening session of the ANC Conference, Arusha, 1 December 1987

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, Leipzig, 11 November 1987

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of Representatives of the parties and movements participating in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Great October Socialist Revolution”, Moscow, 4-5 November 1987

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on “Children, repression and the law in Apartheid South Africa”, Harare, 24 September 1987