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Speeches and Public StatementsThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
During the past week, the entire country has been united in mourning the fall of a giant of our struggle. Messages of condolences have come…
Speeches and Public StatementsUnited Nations Security Council Address on Arusha Peace Process, by Nelson Mandela, 29 September 2000, New York USA
Mr President, Honourable Members of the Security Council We are honoured by the opportunity of returning to the Security Council to report…
Speeches and Public StatementsKeynote Address at National General Council Meeting, by President Thabo Mbeki, 12 July 2000, Port Elizabeth
Comrade Chairperson, Members of the NEC, Comrades delegates, Distinguished veterans, Your Excellencies, Members of the…
Book chapterChapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg
In June 1978 two new prisoners joined us in the Pretoria Security Prison. They had not long before completed their studies. Tim Jenkin,…
Book chapterChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
To cover 22 years of imprisonment in chronological order is too difficult - and I think it would be boring to read about that life within a…
Audio and VideoHugh Masekela on "To Tell the Truth", 28 December 1964
ArticleMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
EASTERN CAPE - Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Stompie…
Remembering District Six
Audio and VideoANC president Cyril Ramaphosa January 8 statement speech
ArticleRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
Forty years ago, in the early hours of January 8th 1978, a 36-year old political philosopher was shot dead in his Durban home by ‘person or…
Audio and VideoRick Turner Photo Tribute
Audio and VideoLebo and Tumi interview Prof William Kgositsile Part 2
Audio and VideoLebo and Tumi interview Prof William Kgositsile Part 1
Audio and VideoKeorapetse Kgositsile - Poet Laureate of South Africa
Audio and VideoKeorapetse Kgositsile @poesiefestival berlin 2009
ArticleUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the…
ArchiveA Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood
The French Embassy was due to present the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) to…
Third Mafika Gwala Annual Lecture 5 October 2017 Video
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrahams died at 97 in…
What Kind...? A film by Peter McKenzie & Sylvie Peyre
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg…
The legacy of Oliver Reginald Tambo
Insurrections at Poetry Africa 2014
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
A packed courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is…
Audio - An Evening with FW de Klerk – the Full Event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
It’s 28 years ago that FW became leader of the National Party and he won against Barend du Plessis. Has Barend du Plessis got a home on…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
A new book reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize tried to manipulate President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser into dropping the…
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
The presidential contender says he saw Jacob Zuma as an older brother and treated Khwezi as he would a daughter. Presidential contender…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
Cape Town - ANC treasurer general, Zweli Mkhize, says the ANC leadership should have been consulted on President Jacob Zuma's cabinet…
Roseberry Sonto interviewed by David Bailey, Cape Town, 2007
Rose Sonto describes student organizing in his high school in Malteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 1969, well before the Soweto Uprising of…
Speeches and Public StatementsAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged…
Keorapetse Kgositsile at WAMFEST 2012
Subbiah Moodley - "Voices Of Resistance"- University Of Durban Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project , 2002
South Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
Chapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T. by Denis Goldberg
Chapter 9 "To build solidarity - that was my task"by Madi Gray
Invisible Communities and Their Visible Cameras by Malcolm Corrigall
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
Message to the World Festival of Youth and Students by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, July 1985
Opening Speech at the International Solidarity Conference, on the Theme "From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development"by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
National Consultative Conference on the African National Congress 17 – 19th November 2017
Book chapterChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
It is not easy to write about prison. When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been…
Book chapterChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of theLiliesleaf farm-house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter than a Thousand Suns, the story…
Book chapterChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency, there were more than 100 sabotage attacks across the…