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Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987

Comrade Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the CPSU, The delegation of the African National Congress shares the vi...

Address at the Opening Session of the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha,1 December 1987

As we meet here today, an important conference is taking place in Addis Ababa. This is the Extraordinary Summit Meeting ...

The Unsung Hero of South African Photography

Andrew Tshabangu’s two decades-plus visual repertoire, the best of which was showcased earlier this year at Johannesburg...

"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988

We would like to take this opportunity to pay homage to the farsighted leaders of our region who, eight years ago, decid...

Statement at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988

Archbishop Trevor Huddleston,  Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement,  Esteemed cultural wor...

79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal

From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai 'The ap...

From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The fir...

"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986

    Today, I stand before this august and eminent assembly to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. Th...

From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian ...

The energies of South African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South A...

From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new...

From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The ant...

Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966

     Oppressed people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the gr...

ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg

Public Announcement on the Disciplinary hearings of: FLOYD SHIVAMBU Respondent SINDISO MAGAQA Respondent JULIUS MALEM...

New Year Message to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 December, 1964

    We wish, Sir, to place on record that the United Nations has this year shown a new firmness and determinat...

From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian ...

David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa

Last Wednesday David Goldblatt wrote an email to the Chancellor of Orders explaining that he was declining the Order of ...

Programme for the High-Level delegation hosted by the African National Congress in Tshwane & Johannesburg from 18 - 22 October 2015

SUNDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2015 2PM - 3:30 PM Arrival: Principal, Deputy Principal & 2 members members of Central Com Proto...

ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011

Arthur Goldreich will go down in history as one of the rare breeds of revolutionaries that changed the course of South A...

2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012

National Chairperson, Deputy President Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive ...

ANC mourns the death of Cde Basil "Jomo" Mavuso, 12 July 2012

The African National Congress (ANC) is saddened to learn of the passing-on of Cde Basil Jomo Mavuso, a former MK comba...

Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka

I would like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in S...

Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)

Action Kommandant is a story about a young activist from the dusty and drug ridden streets of Bonteheuwel. Directed...

"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959

[Drum, a Johannesburg monthly, asked a number of African leaders, "Do we really want to get rid of the white man?&q...

The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008

8 February 2017

Certain historians have erroneously asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery...

This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965

8 February 2017

MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby ...

The Wankie Campaign

24 January 2017

The Luthuli Detachment was one [of] those detachments that were well prepared and well trained. I`m saying this because ...

WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957

Albert Luthuli's Presidential Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Orland...

Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg

A spirit that refuses to submit to Tyranny Once again another biennial Conference is upon you. It is my good fortune t...

Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg

[Protest meetings were held in South Africa in February 1955 denouncing the government`s use of force to remove African ...

Statement by Oliver Tambo at the launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign, 11 June 1988, Wembley Stadium, London

29 November 2016

Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Esteemed cultural workers and artis...

Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky

17 November 2016

Some African Americans, however, haven’t lost touch with this past, and have found success tracing their lineages ...

"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago

15 November 2016

(Extracts from an exclusive article published in Ebony. Reproduced with permission.) ...The solution to the South Afric...

Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964

14 November 2016

From: South Africa Freedom News, Dar es Salaam The University of Algiers has conferred an honorary Doctorate of Literat...

Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg

Raymond Tucker Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg, 4.3...

The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders

More than anyone else, Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881-1951) was the founder of the ANC. It was he who, on his return from lo...

The Settler Economies by Paul Mosley

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire by Anne Norton

Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphyisics and Aethetics