Chief Luthuli was served with banning orders soon after this speech. Mr Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, someone has said a man really has ...

Before becoming the first democratically elected president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison for his efforts to dismantle ...

In response to the growing unity and strength of the Congress Movement as a united front following the adoption of the Freedom Charter, the government arrested 156 political leaders in a mass police swoop on 5 December 1956 and charged them with high treason, a grave charge carrying the death pen

Once again another biennial conf erence is upon you.....