Speeches
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Wiehahn Commission: precis of speech |
Precis of speech on the Wiehahn Commission of Inquiry into labour legislation, by Auret van Heerden, President of the National Union of South African Students, delivered at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union, November 1978. |
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Opening address to the 56th NUSAS Congress |
Opening address at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, November 1978. Refers, inter alia, to challenges faced by the National Union, its programme of Africanisation, and to the banning of Laura Levetan. |
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NUSAS President's opening address to the 55th Congress [of the National Union of South African Students] |
President's address to the 55th National Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 25-30 November 1977. |
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The Black Sash National Conference presidential Address held at Durban, 1978 |
Opening Address by National President Sheena Duncan at the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban on 13 Mar 1978, discussing: Apartheid, Pass offenders, prisons, housing, unemployment, forced removals, independence of Bophuthatswana, Steve Biko, detention without trial. |
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A statement of the African National Congress of South Africa delivered at a Conference of the Continuation Committee of the Lisbon International Conference in support of the peoples of southern Africa, London, 21-23 March 1978 |
A statement of the African National Congress, delivered by Secretary General, Alfred Nzo, to a conference of the Continuation Committee of the Lisbon International Conference in support of the peoples of Southern Africa, London, 21-23 March, 1978. |
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On the current political trends in South Africa in the context of the struggle for national liberation |
An address to the Press luncheon in Washington DC on the national liberation struggle in South Africa |
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Message delivered by a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party to the First Congress of MPLA in Luanda in December 1977 |
Message delivered by a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party to the First Congress of MPLA in Luanda in December 1977, discusses liberation of and building of socialism in Angola |
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South Africa in Crisis: paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference at Pietermaritzburg |
South Africa in Crisis: paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference at Pietermaritzburg on 20 October 1964. |
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An address delivered to the United Nations Committee |
Address delivered by I B Tabata to the United Nations Committee in Lusaka, Zambia. Covers the problem of the colonies and the Protectorates. Argues that these subjects cannot be adequately dealt with without addressing the problem of South Africa. |
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Our conception of the Liberatory Struggle in South Africa |
Speech made by I B Tabata on the nature of the struggle for liberation in South Africa. Includes the Unity Movement's programme and principles. |
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The Black Sash National Conference Port Elizabeth 1965 Opening Address |
The Black Sash National Conference Port Elizabeth 1965 Opening Address Mrs Jean Sinclair on 18 October 1965, mentioning Black Sash origins, Apartheid, legislation, Native Urban Areas Act, banning of coloured political leaders, Beyers Naude, propaganda. |
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Official opening address, National Union of South African Students 42nd Annual Congress, July 4th,1966 |
National Union of South African Students 42nd Annual Congress, 1966. Official opening address by Alan Paton and the Presidential address by John Daniel. |
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Speech delivered on Graduation Day on behalf of the Graduands, April 1972 |
The former President of the SRC of the University of the North delivered the Address at the Graduation Ceremony of April 1972. The university authorities subsequently suspended Mr Tiro and mass protests by the university student body followed. |
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Extracts: Speech delivered my MR Mqotsi |
Extracts of a speech delivered by Mr Mqotsi at a meeting of Head Unity Committee members, in Lusaka, Zambia, regarding charges against him by the Unity Movement. |
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Outward bounty and inward baaskap: Opening Address by Jean Sinclair presented at the Black Sash National Conference in Cape Town |
Outward Bounty and Inward Baaskap Opening Address by Jean Sinclair presented at the Black Sash at National Conference in Cape Town on 15 February 1971 discussing: Apartheid, racial superiority and inferiority, international criticism, exit fom Commonwealth, relations with neighbouring countries, |
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Presidential address delivered at the Conference of the All-African Convention |
Presidential address delivered by W. M. Tsotsi at the Conference of the All-African Convention held in Queenstown, 17th to 20th December 1956. |
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Extracts from Mr Tabata's reply to Mr Mqotsi's allegations |
Extracts from a reply by I B Tabata to allegations against the Unity Movement by Mr Mqotsi. |
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Address, Day of Affirmation, University of Cape Town, June 6th, 1966 |
Text of the address made by Senator Robert F Kennedy at the Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom, University of Cape Town, 6 June 1966. |
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Apartheid: a crisis of the Christian conscience |
The Alfred and Winifred Hoernle Memorial Lecture, 1964, delivered by Denis Hurley under the auspices of the South African Institute of Race Relations examines the Christian ethic and the South African situation |
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The Crime is apartheid, the penalty is isolation: Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference in Johannesburg |
The Crime is apartheid, the penalty is isolation: Paper presented at the National Black Sash National Conference in Johannesburg on 22 October 1963, discussing: Apartheid, South West Africa, African States and airspace, international sanctions, expulsion of SA from United Nations, reform. |