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Address by President Nelson Mandela to a joint sitting of both houses of the parliament of Lesotho Maseru, 12 July 1995
Mr. Speaker; Honourable Members of Parliament; Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen. I am honoured to stand here before you,…
Address by Mashatile on the occasion of the 20th commemoration of the Bisho massacre, 7 September, 2012
Programme Director, MEC Mlibo Qhoboshiyane Premier of the Eastern Cape Province, Premier Noxolo Kiviet The Chairperson of the ANC…
A tribute to Oliver Tambo by members of the Anti Apertheid movement in the UK (video)
Tribute to Oliver Tambo in Albert Road Recreation Ground & Play Area by ex members of the Anti Apertheid movement in the UK.
A Tswana village
These pictures show scenes from a Tswana village in about 1600 AD. It gives some detailed information about the Iron Age way of life that…
ABBREVIATIONS USED
ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions IDAF - International Defence and Aid Fund ILO - International Labour Organization…
A Life’s Mosaic
Click here to read A Life's Mosaic - The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
A collection of videos and audio files that relate to the Oliver Tambo
This is an archive of videos pertaining to Oliver Tambo: Oliver Tambo's house in Muswell Hill, London N10 (video) A tribute to Oliver…
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 In 1977 the Government proposed…
57. The Agreement does not touch the root cause of anti-Asiaticism
P. S. Aiyar, Leo R. Gopaul and 45 other Indians in Durban sent a 'manifesto' to the Prime Minister in March 1927. The document argued that…
55. S.A.I.C. deputation sees the Minister of the Interior, 1925
Members of the South African Indian Congress met the Minister of the Interior in Pretoria on 16 November 1925. They opposed the Areas…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (referred to as the 'Ghetto' Act in the next document)…
A Place of Freedom
Phoenix represented an island of freedom in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to…
3rd Annual Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Honorary Lecture, delivered by Jay Naidoo
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
The accepted view of black, and especially African, politics after the Rivonia Trial, held by historians and other scholars of South…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
The Dealers' Licenses Act, passed by the Natal Legislature, empowered town councils and town boards to decide licence applications. In…
4. Conclusion
The decisions made by the Party executive at the end of 1938 proved to be a lifesaver for the Party. Although Johannesburg and Cape Town…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
The CPSA had a difficult balancing act in broadening its appeal to Africans while remaining faithful to working class struggles and…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
The condemned MK activist arrived at Pretoria Central prison on Tuesday at nine o'clock in the morning. A number of white warders at the…
(1976) ‘World car rushes shot school riot victim to clinic’, The World, 17 June.
(1976) ‘School strike - Botha quizzed’, The World, 3 June.
(1976) Meetings on schools language issues’, The World, 5 March.
(1976) ‘Student form new body’, The World, 3 August.
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary…
14. Suicide among indentured
By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in all by 1911) who came to South Africa were indentured. Among the many problems that faced…
1. The Way to Fox Street
Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in 1899 in Witzieshoek (now known as Qwa Qwa), a tiny African reserve squeezed into a valley on the south…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the Transvaal countryside. African labour tenants and farm workers, chafing under…
(1976) ‘Botha defends language’, The World, 18 June.
(1976) ‘Need for cool heads over language row’, The World, 15 June.
(1976) ‘Inquiry must be held into Soweto riot’, The World, 17 June.
(1976) ‘Kids keep up strike big march planned’, The World, 19 May, p. 4.
(1976) ‘Language row may be ending - at long last’, Weekend World, 16 March.
(1976) ‘moves over teachers and language coming’, New Govt, 27 April.
(1976) ‘Parents stand firm in launguage row’, The World, 8 March, p. 4.
(1976) ‘Riot - Kruger speaks’, The World, 17 June.
(1976) ‘School sackings wil not lead to withdrawals’, The World, 11 February.
“Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa”, Closing speech by Oliver Tambo at the ANC conference, Arusha, 4 December
Peoples of the world united against apartheid, for a democratic South Africa The time has come for all of us to leave this friendly city…
(1976) ‘Asking too much of our kids’, The World, 25 February
”The Global Information Infrastructure - What is at stake for The Developing World?” address to the Infodev Symposium, 9 November 1999
Chairperson Distinguished participants Ladies and Gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to address you this afternoon, your morning.I'm…
”The Future of the Bill”. Editorial in August 15, 1894
The next stage that the Native Bill has to pass is the Governor's. On Sir William Cameron, who is now administering the Government, rests a…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
see photos !U's story Part 3: How big is a family and who belongs to it? A family consists of a mother, father and children. A man can have…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 9 - 15
picture 9 picture 10 picture 11 picture 12 picture 13 picture 14 picture 15
!U’S STORY - Photographs 1 - 8
see photos !U's story Part 1: Our home is the Kalahari. We are the !Kung of Nyae Nyae. The Kalahari is a very big desert which takes up…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
APPEAL TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC ABOUT THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1913 by John Langalibalele Dube President, South African Native National Congress …
Archive of documents pertaining to Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Archive of documents pertaining to Pixley ka Isaka Seme: Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme ILanga Lase Natal, 1912 (PDF) How Congress Began …
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
Preface In the following pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African’s…
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
RAY UAREZ: We start with some background on this crusader against apartheid in South Africa, including a reprise of several of his…
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Roy Padayachie
Articles, podcasts and videos pertaining to Roy Padayachie: Jacob Zuma's eulogy to Roy Padayachie by Jacob Zuma Minister’s surprise visit…
A collection of articles, speeches and letter pertaining to Dr James Sebe Moroka
Article in the Indian Opinon by Jordaan K Ngubane on James Moroka, 28 November 1952 (pdf) Article of the British Weekly, 18 September 1952 …
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
"Protest against [proposed] incorporation South West Africa into Union" The Chairman General Assembly United Nations Organisation West…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
Dorothy Molefi is a mother who lost her child to violence. But what makes her story unique is that her child became an international icon…