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Official or Original Documents

"Pass Law Resisters, Native Case Stated." Report on interview with I. Bud Mbelle, J.W. Dunjwa, and P.J. Motsoakae of the South African Native National Congress, 1 April, 1919 (Published in The Star).
"There a Native Bourgeoisie" Umsebenzi, 2 February 1935
'Operation Mayibuye.' Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
'The P.A.C. of Allegiance'
Africans' Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
Alison Drew - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
ANC: From Resistance to Reconstruction and nation-building - 49th National Conference (pdf)
Article in the Indian Opinon by Jordaan K Ngubane on James Moroka, 28 November 1952 (pdf)
Article of the British Weekly, 18 September 1952 (pdf)
Census statistics based on previous censuses taken from Kane-Berman J and Tempest J (eds) South Africa Survey 2003/2004 (pdf)
Conceptualising the Alliance Five Year Programme
Constitution and Rules of The South African Communist Party
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September 1919 [Extracts]
Copy of modified Nkos' sikel' i Africa, including John L. Dube's name (PDF)
COSATU Submission on the Open Democracy Bill
COSATU Submission to Public Hearings of the Constitutional Assembly
COSATU Submission to the Constitutional Assembly
Court Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Accused No. 1.
Document 15 - 'A document to create a climate of understanding'; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
Document 3 - Resolution on 'the South African question' adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
Document 4 - 'Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering': report in the 'South African Worker'
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
Dr James Moroka Presidential Address, December 1952 (pdf)
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