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ArticleObituary of Michael Harmel
Obituary of Michael Harmel, member of the Central Committee of the SACP
Audio and VideoIn conversation with DA leader Mmusi Maimane, 25 February 2019
ArticleThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
Every time there is violence of a particular sort in SA I think about 1949. In mid-January of that year a single incident between an Indian…
ArticleRobert Gabriel Mugabe (1924 – 2019): A tragedy in three acts, Simon Allison, 6 September 2019, South Africa
The king is dead, and we were wrong. He had not discovered the secret to eternal life; he was not the Bionic President. Robert Mugabe was…
Arts and Culture ReviewSalif Keita’s incomparable call, Ryan Skinner, 25.08.2019, New York, USA
Salif Keita, the Malian musician, celebrates his 70th birthday and 50 years in the industry.
PosterA crime against women, a crime against society
White poster with black lettering and artwork. Artwork of a naked woman in two large hands with words 'stop rape' in red letters across it…
ArchiveProhibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949
The Act was to prohibit marriages between Europeans and non-Europeans, and to provide for matters incidental thereto
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
she's going to travel very far I was born in 1925 and grew up near Hermitage Street, on the hill in Paarl. We were four brothers and four…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
The State (A) South Africa shall be an independent, unitary, democratic and non-racial state. (B) Sovereignty shall belong to the people…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
SOCIALISM HAD ITS BEGINNING as a propaganda force from the plinth of Van Riebeeck Statue, Adderley Street, Cape Town, when it stood at the…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
Documents: An anonymous Cape Town correspondent, The nineteen days (Sharpeville and the days after.before), this article has been…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Masire of Botswana Cape Town, 23 April 1996
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march against a Bantu…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Henrique Cardoso of Brazil Pretoria, 26 November 1996
Now, since I couldn't teach any more there, I left Pardieberg and went to Bloemfontein to look for work. I got work there as a domestic…
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 79 - "What is the Communist…
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 9 - Letter from W. H…
Pretoria Socialist Society
The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable Sir, At a time when in many respects…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, December 29th to Wednesday night,…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
Introduction Most of the world is living under the system of Society called Capitalism. The essence of Capitalism is the ownership of land,…
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
DOCUMENT 37. "Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting." Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969 Four students of UND…
Note on meeting with Mr. Sam Nujoma -1983
We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black…
From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]
Certification of the Amended Text of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 CCT 37/96 Constitutional Court 4 December 1996…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
I The Constitution of South Africa shall provide for the establishment of one sovereign state, a common South African citizenship and a…
From retirement to parliament
(Including 'The Atlantic Charterfrom the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of Rights,' adopted by the ANC…
Flyer by Black People’s Convention supporting Durban strikers, 9 January 1973
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Fatima Meer: Portfolio
WE, THE PARTIES, organisations and administrations assembled in this Multi-party Planning Conference:BEING FULLY CONSCIOUS of the…
FOREWORD: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, pledge ourselves to Peace and Reconciliation in South African and agree to commit ourselves to the following: 1. The…
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
BETWEEN THE FREEDOM FRONT, THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/NATIONAL PARTY TAKING NOTE of the Constitution of…
Firstly, as to COST
We, the participants at the Negotiating Forum meeting at the World Trade Centre on 1 and 2 April 1993: NOTING With revulsion the…
ArchiveFederation
the following notice is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the established of a ‘democratic South Africa’. On…
ArchiveEllen Kuzwayo
Dear Mr Mandela I acknowledge receipt of your memorandum dated 26 June 1992. However, an exchange of memoranda is no substitute for face-to…
Ex-inmate’s memoir unfolds as book by Rusana Philander
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Emissaries from Russia
1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the…
Education for Service
We, the duly authorised representatives of political parties, political organisations, administrations and the South African Government,…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
Mr President, I hope that Ministers Kobie Coetseeand Gerrit Viljoen have informed you that I deeply appreciate your decision in terms of…
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
The government and the ANC have held discussions at the Presidency, Pretoria, today 6 August 1990. 1. The Government and the ANC have again…
Don’t be misled by the PROPAGANDA OF THE KAJEE-PATHER GROUP
The government and the African National Congress agree on a common commitment towards the resolution of the existing climate of violence…
Draft constitution of the ANC
Report of the working group under paragraph three of the Pretoria Minute 1. The Working Group was established under paragraph 3 of the…
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
On negotiations and suspension of armed actions Preamble Noting that:1. Negotiation is only one form of struggle towards the transfer of…
Domestic work
Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic…
Early Days
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Early Beginnings
British Association for the Advancement of Science RECEPTION ROOM UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 5 September 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. …
Document 79 - “What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?”, Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 1 - Keir Hardie, "Stoned in…
Document 9 - First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
Statement of principles 14. We believe that a conjuncture of circumstances exists which, if there is a demonstrable readiness on the part…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the denominations and throughout South Africa were becoming active in…
Document 6 - Africans’ claims in South Africa
“on Women's Day we occupied the prison's surgery” During the time of the UDF (United Democratic Front) I was assisting the civic with…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
THE DEEPENING POLITICAL CRISIS in our country has been a matter grave concern to me for quite some time and I now consider it necessary in…