30,288 records
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
From Military Chairman to President of the Republic: After dissolving the national electoral committee, Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara organized…
Burkina Faso: Key Facts and History by Angela Thompsell updated 13 February 2016
Key facts and history of Burkina Faso from the 2015 elections and coup attempt to independence in 1960. Overview: Burkina Faso's poor…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
This, according to Marie-Louise Baricako, a prominent gender activist from Burundi, is what life is like at the moment for that beleaguered…
Further information on services for the late Adelaide Tambo, 07 February 2007
Please find below information on additional services for the late Adelaide Tambo. Please note that the venue for the funeral on Saturday…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
I am deeply grateful to the members of the Christopher Gell Memorial Award Committee for giving me this unique opportunity to participate…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
The result of the General Election has brought about no real change. If anything, it has given the Nationalist Party a much firmer mandate…
"If I were Prime Minister": Article by Albert Luthuli, 2 December 1961
Many problems face the emergent Black States in this continent. Among these problems are: the avoidance of economic chaos when…
ANC statement on incident at Luthuli House, 29 February 2008
ANC Headquarters Luthuli House has been evacuated following an incident at the entrance to the building. The details of the incident are as…
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
We enclose herewith a copy of a document published by our Information Department exposing the dangerous and sinister policy of the…
OR Tambo lecture by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
The Deputy President of the ANC, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa, will deliver a lecture to celebrate the life and times of Oliver Reginald Tambo…
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
"Face the future" 8 August 1960 The white minority rule policy of segregation and more so its virulent form, apartheid, have screened off…
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
The formulation and declaration by the United Nations Organisation of human rights and the fundamental freedoms was a great achievement. It…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
[This statement was to have been made to the court before the passing of sentence, after which I had been found guilty of burning my pass,…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
ANC National Chairperson, ANC Provincial Chairperson and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
Programme Director, The Family of Nkosi Albert Luthuli, Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Sbu…
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
A.B Xuma,the 6th President General of the ANC(1940 - 49) 44th National Conference: Letter on "certain tendencies" from Dr. A. B. Xuma 18…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
[The following was a reply by Mr. Tambo to a question on Radio Freedom concerning the "noise Chief Gatsha Buthelezi was making about his…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security…
National spokesperson to address a lecture on OR Tambo
This month, October 2014, the African National Congress pays homage to our late former President, Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Comrade Oliver…
Speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Oliver Tambo Institute of Leadership, 17 July 2008, Kawaweta, Uganda
Members of the National Resistance Movement Central Executive Committee, Honourable Ministers, Members of the Ugandan National Parliament…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Unveiling of the Tombstone of Oliver Tambo, 19 April 1998, Wattville, Benoni
Master of ceremonies; Our dear Adelaide and family; Comrades and friends, The main speaker on this occasion is Thabo Mbeki, the…
Address by Nelson Mandela at the Funeral of Adelaide Tambo, 10 February 2007
Once more this morning we come to pay our last respects to a member of our generation of freedom fighters and patriots. Over these last…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
Question: How do you assess the situation in southern Africa after the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front has signed the ceasefire agreement? TAMBO:…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
Unity in Action Decisive Question: How would you assess the Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe, and the implementation up to now of…
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
The African National Congress commends the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality, the Department of Arts and Culture, Department of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
Question: On the night of the 12th/13th of August, a unit of the People`s Army shelled Voortrekkerhoogte, the Headquarters of the racist…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
It is with deep regret and a profound sense of loss that the African National Congress has learnt of the death this evening (31 January…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
Question: Your guerrillas recently blew up fuel tanks at South Africa`s oil-from-coal processing plant at Sasolburg, and there have been…
'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am deeply conscious of the signal honour it is to be asked to open this 20th conference of the…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
On 31 January 1985 the State President of South Africa, PW Botha, speaking in parliament, offered Mandela his freedom on condition that he …
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
Last month, the Harvard Art Museums reopened, and with them another addition to Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt River just around the…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an…
Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016
Please allow me yet again to react to the spasms of abject annihilation of sense, meaning and self-respect being played out around the…
Chapter 6. Conclusion by Frantz Fanon, 1961
Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways. We must shake off the heavy darkness in which we were…
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
Colonial domination, because it is total and tends to over-simplify, very soon manages to disrupt in spectacular fashion the cultural life…
The Collapse of Rhodesia: Population Demographics and the Politics of Race by Josiah Brownell
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure—so believed Albert Luthuli, president of the African National…
A Crisis of Governance: Zimbabwe by Jacob Chikuhwa
A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair by Dick Leonard
Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging by David McDermott Hughes
Tears of Rain: Ethinicity and History in Central Western Zambia by Wim van Binsbergen
The Politics of Water in Africa: The European Union's Role in Developing Aid Partnership by Christopher Rowan
Custom and Conflict in Africa By Max Gluckman
Black ViewPoint - The New Black by Bennie A. Khoapa
From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa Bennie A. khoapa is an experienced social worker and currently the…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa Chief M.G. Buthelezi is the Chief Executive Councillor of the KwaZulu…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa C.M.C. Ndamse is a distinguished educationist and former lecturer at…
Black ViewPoint - Black Development by Njabulo Ndebele
From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa Njabulo Ndebele is a final year B.A. student at the University of…