DISA Speeches

DISA Speeches

Digital Innovation South Africa

The text of 157 speeches by African leaders between 1949 and 1994


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DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1983 English

Notes delivered by Joe Nhlanhla at a regional Youth seminar on the call to arm the masses. Asks whether this call is realistic or emotional.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1983 English

Typescript of a speech delivered by Jack Simons on Communists in National Liberation Movements. Headings: Communist Theory; Nations and Nationalities; Self-Determination; National Democratic Revolution; Diversity and Continuity; Classes in Africa; …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1983 English

Typescript of a talk delivered by Jack Simons on Communists in National Liberation Movements. Headings: Communist Theory; Nations and Nationalities; Self-Determination; National Democratic Revolution; Diversity and Continuity; Classes in Africa; …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1983 English

Speech presented at the NUSAS July Festival, University of Cape Town


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1983 English

Speeches presented at the NUSAS July festival held at the University of Cape Town which include speeches about State strategy regarding constitutional proposals, Bantustans, educational struggle, community organisation and worker …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1983 English

Speech presented at the NUSAS July Festival, University of Cape Town


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1983 English

Opening Address by National President Sheena Duncan at National Conference held at Cape Town on 10 March 1983, discussing: Total Strategy, reform, Black Vote, minority rule, women's rights, civil liberties.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1983 English

Address to the National Conference of the Black Sash by Allan Boesak on the 10 March 1983, discussing: Apartheid, theology, total onslaught, police action, South African Council of Churches, Pass …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1982 English

Edited text of a speech delivered by Auret van Heerden, to both the NUSAS Congress in Durban and to a joint sitting of the AZASO General Students Council and COSAS …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1982 English

Speech made by Jack Simons to the staff and students of the Lenin Party School at the closing ceremony of the 1981-1982 academic year and in celebration of the School's …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1982 English

Address by the African National Congress to the United Nations General Assembly regarding sanctions against South Africa.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1982 English

Speech delivered at the July 1982 Festival of the National Union of South African Students.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1982 English

Speech delivered at the July Festival of the National Union of South African Students, 1982.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1982 English

Opening Address by National President Joyce Harris at the Black Sah National Conference held at Durban on 13 March 1982, discussing: Reform, Homelands, poverty, forced relocations, Pass Laws, detentions, Group …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1981 English

Speeches concerning NUSAS Congress held on 1981, addressing issues like,the students movement in the struggle for democracy, students initiatives in Universities, Students and the broader Community and democracy at work.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1981 English

Acting-president's opening address at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, Cape Town from 28 November to 3 December 1981. The …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1981 English

Speech by the guest speaker, Joe Phaahla, President of the Azanian Students' Organisation (AZASO), at the 59th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1981 English

Address by Moses Mabhida to miliant partisans at Luanda on 26th July 1981 to mark the 60th anniversary of the SACP. Discusses the statement by the government that the country …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1981 English

Joe Slovo's speech to mark the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the SACP on the 30th July 1981 in Maputo. Reflects on the history of the SACP and its …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 June 1981 English

Lecture by Wycliffe M Tsotsi, Vice-President, Unity Movement of South Africa, on the Soweto Uprising and the history of the liberation struggle.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1981 English

Opening Address by National President Joyce Harris at the Black Sash National Conference held at Grahamstown on 13 March 1981, discussing: Total Onslaught, Black Power, Homelands, forced removals, Independent Black …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1980 English

Closing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980. Spoke on education within …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1980 English

Opening address given by George Bizos at the 58th NUSAS Congress in November 1980.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1980 English

Opening address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980. Refers, inter alia, to …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1980 English

This is a speech containing an exctract from an address given at a seminar on Africanisation in Natal. This was transcribed from a tape recording of the address and apology …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 June 1980 English

Statement by the President of the African National Congress (South Africa), O R Tambo at the World Consultation of the World Council of Churches, Holland, 16-21 June 1980, regarding how …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1980 English

Opening Address by National President Joyce Harris at National Conference held at Johannesburg on 10 March 1980, discussing: Apartheid, Immorality Act, curfews, Independence of Venda, District Six, homelands, housing, separate …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1979 English

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 …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1979 English

Opening address by the Chairperson of the Natal Indian Congress at the 57th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, November 1979.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1979 English

Statement of the President of the African National Congress of South Africa, Oliver R Tambo, at the International Conference in support of liberation movements and solidarity with frontline states, Lusaka, …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1979 English

Opening Address by National President Joyce Harris at National Conference held at Cape Town on 12 March 1979, discussing: Apartheid, Pass Laws, Migrant Labour System, housing, forced removals, hostels, homelands.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1978 English

Opening address at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Durban, November 1978. Refers to banning of Laura Levetan, developments on university campuses in South …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1978 English

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 …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1978 English

This article is an extract from an address by Bishop Desmond Tutu to crossroads protest meeting in the University of Witwatersrand in September 19, 1978.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1978 English

Partially edited transcript of a speech given by I B Tabata at a meeting in London. About the plans of imperialism and a call for action.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1978 English

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 …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1978 English

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 …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1978 English

An address to the Press luncheon in Washington DC on the national liberation struggle in South Africa


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1977 English

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 …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1977 English

President's address to the 55th National Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 25-30 November 1977.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1977 English

A speech to Black students about Black Consciousness


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1977 English

The Presidential Address to the 8th General Council meeting of the South African Students' Organisation, 4-9 July 1976


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1977 English

Opening Address by the Black Sash National President Sheena Duncan at National Conference held at Johannesburg on 14 March 1977, discussing: Majority Rule, free enterprise, racial equality, communist threat, Judeo-Christian …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1977 English

This is the speech delivered by Dr Beyers Naude on the occassion of the graduation ceremony of the Federal Theological Seminary in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg in 1977.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1977 English

Speech by Jane Gool on her 75th birthday, celebrated in Zambia.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1976 English

The address outlines the role of the Black Conciousness Movement in the 1976 Soweto uprising and emphasises the need for action for liberation.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 June 1976 English

Immediately following the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and repression with which the apartheid regime encountered it, Mrs Winnie Mandela made an impassioned plea at …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1976 English

Address delivered by Sam Buti, General Secretary of a Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in Africa (NGKA) to a Conference organised by the Lutheran and NGKA congregations in Soweto in cooperation with …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 March 1976 English

Lecture delivered by Rev M. Ngakane, Deputy General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches in Benoni on March 6, in 1976 about the challenge of Black theology in …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1976 English

President's address to the 53rd Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Cape Town, 30 January - 4 February 1976.