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 1949 English
Address delivered to the Joint Council of Europeans and Africans on the topic of Native Education.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1951 English
This address is a declaration to the people of South Africa and begins by mentioning the Nazi-like tyranny under which the people of South Africa live. It is therefore directed …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1951 English
Opening Address to the First Conference of the Society of Young Africa.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1951 English
Presidential address delivered at the Conference of the All African Convention meeting in Bloemfontein. Summarises history of dispossession and military conquest in South Africa, political and economic enslavement, and presents …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 June 1953 English
Presidential Address delivered by Leo Sihlali at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cape African Teachers' Association in Queenstown.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1955 English
Presidential Address delivered at the All-African Convention held at Queenstown, 15th to 17th December 1955.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1956 English
Presidential address delivered by W. M. Tsotsi at the Conference of the All-African Convention held in Queenstown, 17th to 20th December 1956.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1958 English
Presidential address delivered by W. Tsotsi at the Annual Conference of the All-African Convention held in Pietermaritzburg in December, 1958.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 December 1959 English
Typescript of speech prepared by I B Tabata and Jane Gool and delivered by Jane Gool at the conference of the All-African Convention in 1959, while Tabata was banned.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1960 English
Presidential address presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 31 October 1960, discussing: Pass Laws, wages, state of emergency, Apartheid, human rights, unjust laws, race relations.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1961 English
Speech made by I B Tabata at a meeting of the African Peoples' Democratic Union of South Africa about imperialism overseas and in South Africa.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1961 English
National President's Report at the Black Sash National Conference in East London 7 to 8 November 1961. Mentioned were: South Africa leaving the Commonwealth, possible violent protests, disproportionate representation in …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1962 English
Ex tempore speech by I B Tabata at the National Conference of the Unity Movement in January, 1962.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1962 English
Speech delivered by L. Mqotsi at the African People's Democratic Union of South Africa Conference.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1962 English
Address by I B Tabata to the First National Conference of the African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA), held in Cape Town in April 1962. Items in the …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1962 English
Presidential Address delivered by I B Tabata at Cape Town, for the African People's Democratic Union of South Africa.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 May 1963 English
Speeches by Archbishop Hurley and Jonty Driver, NUSAS President, as well as a Declaration signed by student representatives.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1963 English
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 …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1964 English
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 …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1964 English
South Africa in Crisis: paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference at Pietermaritzburg on 20 October 1964. Mentioned: United Nations, role of white South Africans in Apartheid, overview of …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 May 1965 English
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 …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1965 English
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.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1965 English
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 …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 February 1966 English
Speech by I B Tabata about unity among African States.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1966 English
Extracts from a reply by I B Tabata to allegations against the Unity Movement by Mr Mqotsi.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1966 English
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.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 June 1966 English
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.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1966 English
National Union of South African Students 42nd Annual Congress, 1966. Official opening address by Alan Paton and the Presidential address by John Daniel.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1966 English
The Beginning of it all: Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference at Cape Town on 18 October 1966, discusses origins and history of slavery worldwide, resistance, end to …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1967 English
Opening Address presented at the Black Sash National Conference held at Johannesburg, 1967 on 16 October 1967, mentioning: Vorster, migrant labour, Suppression of Communism Act, Education Act, Terrorism Act, separate …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 May 1968 English
Address given by John Daniel at a National Union of South African seminar on the future of the Union. Includes analysis of the student scene in South Africa and an …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 June 1968 English
Address by Dr Alan Paton on the Sixth National Day of Affirmation and Human Freedom in the Great Hall, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday, 6th June, 1968.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1968 English
President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 30th Jun - 9 Jul 1968. Subjects discussed included the …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1968 English
An address, representing a joint statement by ANC, ZAPU, SWAPO, PAIGC, MPLA, to the Fifth Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation for African Unity (OAU) held …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1969 English
Address by leader of the South African Congress of Trade Unions to the African National Congress Conference in Morogoro, Tanzania. Speaks about the virtual collapse of the trade union movement.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 May 1969 English
Abridged version of an address entitled "Our country, our responsibility" by the President of NUSAS, Mr Duncan Innes, at a student meeting at the University of Witwatersrand
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1969 English
Power, patriotism, principle: Opening address by Jean Sinclair at presented at the Black Sash National Conference held at Pietermaritzburg on 21 October 1969, discussing: legislative power of regions, racial inequalities, …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 October 1969 English
South Africa, 2000 A.D. An exercise in Crystal-gazing: Address given by professor H.L. Watts at National Conference held at Pietermaritzburg on 22 October 1969 regarding: Urbanization, industrialization, population growth, social …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 1970 English
Transcript of a speech by I B Tabata on the international situation.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1970 English
Official opening address by Mrs Fatima Meer at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Camp Jonathan, Eston, Natal, July 1970. The address raised questions …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1970 English
Speech given by the Right Honorable Denis Healey, M.B.E., M.P. at the Eighth Annual Day of Affirmation of Academic Freedom and Human Freedom, University of Natal, Durban, September 17, 1970. …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 February 1971 English
Speech delivered by I B Tabata to an Executive Meeting of the Unity Movement in Lusaka. Reviews the current position of the Unity Movement.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 February 1971 English
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 …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1971 English
Papers presented at the 9th NUSAS National Seminar held at Howick, April 24-28 in 1971. The 8 papers presented were as follows: Approach to student power; Economics and race; The …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 July 1971 English
Opening speech at the 47th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Durban, July 1971. He discusses the experience of being Black in South …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1971 English
In speaking of Blackness in South Africa, by choosing to use the term "Black" as a people indicated that Black people did not accept the use of the term " …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1971 English
Black conciousness implies the total involvement of all opressed people to recreate new value systems which will free Blacks from the bonds of self-imposed slavery accruing out of living in …
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 November 1971 English
Speech delivered by I B Tabata to the Fourth Committee of the United Nations.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 February 1972 English
Address by Bishops to Catholics on social and interracial justice, moral courage and dignity in human relationships within the South African context of racial discrimination.
DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 April 1972 English
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 …