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A collection of Albert Luthuli's speeches
Karis & Carter Collection: Speeches
B.J Vorster: Select speeches
Abdullah Abdurahman's select speeches
Yusuf Dadoo: select speeches, statements & letters
Speeches of Dr. G.M. (Monty) Naicker 1945 - 1963
A collection of ANC speeches

 

 




Speeches, Public statements

1900-1949

"Presidential Address" by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
Statement at press conference held at India league - A reply to the speech of Mr. Eric Louw at the Foreign Press Association luncheon on October 22, 1948
JC Smuts - The White man's task 1917

1950s

"Opening Address" at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
"The State of the Nation." Address by R. M. Sobukwe, on "National Heroes' Day," August 2, 1959
Inaugural Convention of the PAC, April 4-6, 1959 - "Opening Address" by R. M. Sobukwe

1960s

Transcription of ANC Radio Freedom broadcast, 1969?
"Strategy and Tactics." Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
"The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists." Statement "issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C.," April 6, 1963
Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, 21- 28 June 1960
“United Nations must take action to destroy apartheid”
Text of the Nobel Lecture delivered by Chief Albert Lutuli in the Oslo University, on December 11, 1961
Presidential Address by I. B. Tabata, African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa, April 1962 [Extracts]
Oliver Tambo's statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly New York, 29 October 1963
Appeal for action to stop repression and trial in South Africa. Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, October 8, 1963
Comments and observations on proposals for a United Security Council Resolution on apartheid,1963
These comments were probably sent by Oliver Tambo from New York in November 1963.
“The A. N. C. spearheads Revolution.” Leaflet issued by the A. N. C., May 1963.
Broadcast, by W. M. Sisulu, on ANC Radio on, June 1963.
'Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners'
Statement by Oliver Tambo at press conference in Dar Es salaam Concerning sentences in the Rivonia Trial June 12, 1964
Statement by Mr. Thabo Mbeki, son of Mr. Govan Mbeki the African leader on trial in Pretoria, before a delegation of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid in London,13 April 1964
ANC-ZAPU Alliance
Declaration by Olivier Tambo, Deputy President of the African National Congress of South Africa, and J. R.D. Chikerema, Vice-President of the Zimbabwe African people's union, August 1967
Message to the people of South Africa, June 1968 by O. R. Tambo
Statement at the special session of the united Nations Special Committee against apartheid, Stockholm, June, 1968
Need for new level of international action against apartheid
Broadcast to South Africa on Eighth Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, December 16, 1969
Toward Robben Island
Indian South Africans in the Struggle for national liberation
Statement by Vuyisile Mini - From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964. (extract)
"I Did What was Right", Bram Fischer, 1966

1970s

Graduation Speech by Onkgopotse Tiro at the University of the North , 29 April 1972

1980s

Oliver Tambo - speech at a funeral in Maseru, December 1982
Mrs. Gertrude Shope - Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, August 11, 1981
Ms. Florence Maleka (ANC Women's Section) - Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa and Namibia, August 9, 1983
Desmond Tutu's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1984
The Nobel Peace Prize 1984 - Presentation Speech by Egil Aarvik

1990s

Statement by archbishop Desmond Tutu in response to decision by the ned geref kerk in the eastern cape to call on its members to testify before the commission - October 16, 1996.
Mandela's speech at thanksgiving for Tutu, June 1996.
F. W. de Klerk's speech at the opening of Parliament 2 February 1990

2000-2007

Tony Leon's speech as a leader of DA
Web-published response by Thabo Mbeki to Archbishop Tutu 's 2004 Nelson Mandela Lecture, in ANC Today , 4(47),   26 November-2 December 2004
The 2nd Nelson Mandela Foundation Lecture, delivered by Archbishop Desmond Tutu , 23 November, 2004

 

 

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