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Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958

Our Vision is a Democratic Society (Speech at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in ...

Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka

Comrade President, Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, a most eloquent exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South A...

Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London

Twenty-four years ago today, March 21st, 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, ...

Message by Albert Luthuli on the eve of Multi-Racial Conference, 1 November 1957

Much has been said and written about the forthcoming multi-racial conference to be held in Johannesburg on December 3-5,...

The ANC launch the Luthuli Volunteer Corps in Magareng Sub Region, Warrenton, Frances Baard Region, 19 September 2013

This launch comes after successful sub regional programmes which took place in Phokwane and Dikgatlong Sub Regions in th...

Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago

From Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with Albert Joh...

Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981

[THE FOLLOWING IS A SUMMARY OF SECTION 3 OF THE ABOVE PUBLICATION, CONCERNING LOUIS VAN BENGALE - NOT A PROFESSIONAL TRA...

Names of Slaves and Free Blacks

The following list is taken from Frank R. Bradlow and Margaret Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, appendix II. A note by t...

Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995

INTRODUCTION There has been hardly any research in India on the transport of Indians to South Africa as slaves during t...

The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan

In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultur...

Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London

It is now almost five years since Canon John Collins passed away. With his departure, many of us lost a dear friend. As...

Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London

The "International Tribute - For a Free South Africa" is an historic and unique event. Artists from across the...

Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha

Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama Cha M...

Message to the Special Committee against Apartheid on its 20th anniversary from O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 April 1983

We take the opportunity to extend to the Committee the most cordial fraternal greetings on occasion of the twentieth ann...

Message by Oliver Tambo on South Africa`s year of the women, a call to the peoples of the world, 01 November 1983

The African National Congress, the broad democratic movement and the people of South Africa as a whole, will be observin...

"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962

[Chief Lutuli said that it was no coincidence that he has chosen New Age to make this statement. "New Age has alrea...

Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York

Defeat those who subvert United Nations Decisions Four days ago, in commemorating the twentieth anniversary of its sing...

Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988

The people of South Africa, particularly the youth of our country, are renowned for their fearless challenge to the full...

Message by Oliver Tambo of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 71st anniversary of ANC, 08 January 1983

We must organise ourselves into a conquering force Fellow South Africans, Today, January 8th, we mark the 71st anniver...

No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963

(An appeal sent to the people of the United Kingdom in May 1963 through the Anti-Apartheid Movement) I greet all lovers...

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997

CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Sobukwe, are you Zodwa? MRS SOBUKWE: I am Zondeni. CHAIRPERSON: Zondeni Veronica. We welcome you Mrs ...

Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989

This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our country. Those who have chosen ...

Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 1 June 1968

Twenty years ago last month, a minority of the white minority in South Africa, steeped in the doctrines Hitler sought to...

Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968

Mr. Chairman, Your Excellencies,  distinguished representatives and guests: Permit me first of all, Sir, to ex...

Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968

In the course of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid in Stockholm, I asked the Chairman, Amb...

We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968

Mr. President,  Your Imperial Majesty,  Your Royal Majesty,  Your Excellencies and distinguished gu...

Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969

Contents Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the Consultative Conference of th...

A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969

(Abridged text) For over fifty years the African National Congress has led the people of South Africa in the struggle f...

Directive Concerning the Nature of the Forthcoming ANC Consultative Conference in Morogoro by O. R. Tambo, March 1969

Since the banning of the African National Congress on April, 1960, three conferences which were in the nature of general...

ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991

From the 2nd to the 7th July 1991, 2,244 delegates representing 760,000 members met in the 48th National Conference of t...

Political Overview By The ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Paul Mashatile On The Occasion Of The Special Provincial General Council, Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg, 24 February 2013

Programme Director, Deputy Chairperson, Comrade Gwen Ramokgopa Secretary General, Comrade Gwede Mantashe NEC Deployees...

Address by H.E. Ms. Baleka Mbete, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Africa-Indian Ocean (AFI) Region Aviation Conference, Kwazulu-Natal, 24 November 2008

SALUTATION Programme director, Ms. Mpumi Mpofu, Honourable Minister of Transport, Mr. Jeff Radebe Premier of KwaZulu-...

Speech by Deputy Minister Gwendoline Mahlangu-Nkabinde, South African Deputy Minister of Economic Development at a Business Conference held in conjunction with the Wuhan Government, Wuhan, China 11 August 2010

The Executive Governor of the Province of Hubei, Mr Li Xiansheng, our distinguished hosts, honoured guests, fellow South...

Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984

In the name of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress of South Africa and on behalf of the st...

Address by President Jacob Zuma to The Progressive Professionals Forum on the occasion of their launch, 2 August 2013

The President of the Progressive Professionals Forum (PPF), Mr Jimmy Manyi, Esteemed Members of the PPF,  Ladies ...

Bitter Battles to Come - Message to the Meeting of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation by O. R. Tambo, Tripoli, January 1971

Twelve years ago, the peoples of Africa and Asia met in the revolutionary capital of the United Arab Republic to map out...

State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015

The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Deputy Speaker of the Nati...

Apartheid - a Threat to Africa's Survival - Address under the Auspices of the Nigerian National Committee on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, 18 March 1971

South Africa's Strategy of Creating Client States The strategic objective of the South African racists with regard to t...

Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971

Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms....

Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972

We are gathered here today to commemorate sixty years of the formation and existence of the African National Congress of...