- Contents
- O'Malley's political interviews
- Padraig O'Malley
- Pre-Transition (1902-1989)
- Transition (1990 - 1994)
- Post-Transition (1994 - 1999)
- Transformation (1999-)
- General Information
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Biographies
- Akhalwaya, Ameen
- Alant, Theo
- Asmal, Kader
- Ayob, Ismail
- Babb, Glen
- Bam, Fikile
- Barnard, Niel
- Battersby, John Daniel
- Bernstein, Hilda
- Bethlehem, Ronnie
- Beyers, Andries
- Bishop, Bruce
- Bizos, George
- Blomkamp, Peter
- Boesak, Allan
- Boraine, Alexander Lionel (Alex)
- Boshoff, Carel Willem Hendrik
- Botha, Louis
- Botha, Roelof Frederik (Pik)
- Buchner, Jac
- Bunting, Brian Percy
- Burton, Mary
- Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha
- Buys, Louis
- Cajee, Amien
- Camerer, Sheila Margaret
- Cameron, Edwin
- Carolus, Cheryl
- Carrim, Yunus
- Chalmers, Judy
- Chaskalson, Arthur
- Chiba, Laloo
- Chikane, Frank
- Cleary, Sean
- Clewlow, Warren
- Coetsee, Hendrick Jacobus (Kobie)
- Coetzer, Piet
- Cooper, Sathasivan (Saths)
- Cronin, Jeremy Patrick
- Davidson, Christo
- De Beer, Samuel Johannes (Sam)
- De Beer, Zacharias Johannes (Zach)
- De Klerk, Frederik Willem (FW)
- De Klerk, Willem
- De Lange, Jan Pieter
- De Lille, Patricia
- De Swart, Salimon (Salie)
- De Tolly, Jenny
- De Villiers, Dawid Jacobus (Dawie)
- Delport, Jacobus Tertius
- Derby-Lewis, Clive
- Desai, Shabaan Rissiek (Barney)
- Dhlomo, Oscar Dumisani
- Dingake, Michael
- Dolo, Pauline
- Dommisse, Ebbe
- Du Plessis, Barend Jacobus
- Ebrahim, Hassen
- Eglin, Colin Wells
- Ehrenreich, Tony
- Evans, Bishop Bruce
- Evans, Gavin
- Felgate, Walter Sidney
- Fismer, Christiaan Loedolff (Chris)
- Fivaz, John George
- Fletcher, Prudence
- Gasa, Faith Xolile
- Gelb, Stephen
- Gerwel, Gert Johannes 'Jakes'
- Gildenhuys, Antonie
- Giliomee, Hermann
- Golding, Marcel
- Goldstone, Richard
- Gordhan, Pravin Jamnadas
- Gouws, Kobie
- Gqozo, Joshua (Oupa)
- Graham, Paul Malcolm
- Gumede, Archibald Jacob (Archie)
- Gumede, VC
- Gwala, Harry Themba
- Hall, John
- Hani, Martin Thembisile (Chris)
- Harber, Anton
- Harman, Francois
- Hartzenberg, Ferdinand (Ferdi)
- Heath, Willem H
- Hendrickse, Helenard Joe (Allan)
- Heyns, Johan
- Hofmeyr, William Andrew (Willie)
- Holomisa, Harrington Bantubonke (Bantu)
- Holomisa, Sango Patekile
- Howard, Randall
- Hurley, Dennis
- Hutchings, Gillian
- Irvine, George
- Jack, Mkuseli
- Jack, Zonke (Pro)
- James, Wilmot Godfrey
- Jenkin, Tim
- Joffe, Joel
- Johnson, Shaun
- Jones, Colin Vivian
- Jordan, Zweledinga Pallo
- Joseph, Daso
- Joseph, Paul
- Kane-Berman, John
- Kasrils, Ronald (Ronnie)
- Kathrada, Ahmed Mohamed (Kathy)
- Kearney, Paddy
- Keys, Derek Lyle
- Khoza, Themba
- Klaaste, Aggrey
- Konigkramer, Arthur Jacob
- Kriegler, Johannes Christiaan (Johann)
- Kriel, Hernus
- Kögl, Jürgen
- Langa, Pius Nkonzo
- Lekota, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick
- Leon, Anthony James (Tony)
- Liebenberg, Christo Ferro (Chris)
- Louw, Eugene
- Love, Janet
- Luthuli, Albertina
- Mabandla, Brigitte Sylvia
- Mabizela, Stanley
- Maduna, Penuell Mpapa
- Maharaj, Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac)
- Mahomed, Yusuf
- Makgoba, Malegapuru William
- Makwetu, Clarence Mlami
- Malan, Magnus
- Malan, Wynand Charl
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlanhla
- Mangope, Lucas Manyane
- Manning, Claudia
- Manuel, Trevor Andrew
- Maphai, Vincent
- Masekela, Barbara
- Masondo, Andrew
- Matiso, Khaya
- Matthews, Vincent Joseph (Joe)
- Mayekiso, Moses Jongizizwe
- Mbeki, Govan Archibald Mvuyelwa
- Mboweni, Tito Titus
- Mdlalose, Frank Themba
- Meer, Fatima
- Meiring, Georg
- Meiring, Kobus
- Memela, Tootsie
- Mesatywa, Jeanette
- Meyer, Roelf Petrus
- Mhlaba, Raymond
- Mhlongo, Ben
- Mkhatshwa, Smangaliso
- Mkhize, Goodwill
- Mkwayi, Wilton
- Mogoba, Stanley Mmutlanyane
- Mokaba, Peter Ramoshoane
- Molefe, Popo Simon
- Moleketi, Jabu
- Momoniat, Ismail
- Moodley, Strinivasa (Strini)
- Moolman, Johan
- Moosa, Mohammed Valli
- Morobe, Murphy
- Moseneke, Dikgang Ernest
- Motlana, Ntatho
- Motlanthe, Kgalema
- Motolla, Emanuel
- Motshekga, Dr. Mathole S.
- Mufamadi, Fholisani Sydney
- Mvelase, Dipuo
- Myeni, Musa
- Mzizi, Abraham & Gertrude
- Nagerman, Arthur
- Naidoo, Indres
- Naidoo, Jayaseelan 'Jay'
- Naidoo, Jayendra
- Naidoo, Phyllis
- Naidoo, Steve (Nandha)
- Nair, Billy
- Naudé, Christiaan Beyers
- Ndlovu, Curnick
- Ndlovu, Humphrey
- Nefolovhodwe, Pandelini
- Nel, Christo
- Nel, JJ
- Ngakane, Nomsa
- Ngakane, Shadrack
- Ngcuka, Bulelani
- Ngcukana, Cunningham
- Ngubane, Baldwin Sipho (Ben)
- Ngubane, Harriet
- Nkabinde, Sifiso
- Nqakula, Charles
- Nyanda, Siphiwe
- Nzimande, Emmanuel Bonginkose (Blade)
- Omar, Abdullah Mohamed
- Oriani-Ambrosini, Mario GR
- Pahad, Essop
- Patel, Dipak
- Phosa, Mathews
- Pigou, Piers
- Pillay, Ivan
- Pillay, Vella
- Potgieter, Flip
- Raadschelders, Lucia
- Rajab, Mahmoud
- Ramaphosa, Matamela Cyril
- Reddy, Fred
- Rhoodie, Dr Nic
- Rory, Riordan
- Sachs, Albert Louis (Albie)
- Salojee, Rashid AM
- Saloojee, Cas
- Sauls, Freddie
- Schlemmer, Lawrence
- Schumann,
- Scott, Mpho
- Seedat, Hassim
- Selebi, Jackie
- September, Connie
- Seremane, Wetsho-Otsile Joseph (Joe)
- Sexwale, Mosima Gabriel (Tokyo)
- Shabalala, Thomas Mandla
- Shaik, Mo
- Shaik, Yunus
- Shilowa, Mbhazima (Sam)
- Shubane, Khehla
- Shubin, Vladimir
- Sisulu, Walter Max Ulyate
- Sithole, Jabu
- Sizane, Richard K
- Skhosana, Mahlmola
- Skweyiya, Zola Sidney Themba
- Slovo, Joe
- Soal, Peter George
- Sonn, Franklin
- Spaarwater, Maritz
- Sunter, Clem
- Sutcliffe, Michael
- Suttner, Raymond Sorrell
- Swilling, Mark
- Terre'Blanche, Eugene
- Terreblanche, Sampie
- Tholole, Joe
- Trehwela, Paul
- Treurnicht, Andries Petrus
- Tshabalala, Henry
- Tshabalala, Vuso
- Tugwana, Gabu
- Tutu, Desmond Mpilo
- Twala, Linda
- Twala, Philisile
- Van Den Heever, CM
- Van Der Merwe, CJ (Stoffel)
- Van Der Merwe, Dannhauser
- Van Der Merwe, Hendrick
- Van Der Merwe, Jacobus Hercules (Koos)
- Van Der Merwe, Johan
- Van Rensburg, Danie & Anna
- Van Schalkwyk, Marthinus
- Van Zyl Slabbert, Frederik
- Verryn, Paul
- Viljoen, Constand Laubscher
- Viljoen, Gerrit
- Vlok, Adriaan Johannes
- Vogelman, Lloyd
- Vosloo, Theunissen (Ton)
- Wagener, Johannes Hendrik (Jan)
- Weinberg, Sheila
- Wessels, Leon
- Whitehead, John
- Wilson, Francis
- Woods, Gavin
- Worrall, Denis John
- Xego, Mike
- Xundu, Mcebisi Osman
- Yacoob, Zak
- Yengeni, Tony Sithembiso
- Zille, Helen
- Zondi, Keith Musakawukhethi (Musa)
- Zuma, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa
- Zwelithini, King Goodwill
- !Khoisan X
- Howard Barrell 'Conscripts to their Age'
- Conscripts To Their Age: African National Congress Operational Strategy, 1976-1986
- List Of Figures And Charts
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Note On Sources And Footnoting
- Postscript Ante
- Chapter One: Old Battle-Cries And Borrowed Language
- Chapter Two: You Only Win Once
- Chapter Three: Unprepared
- Chapter Four: A Turn To The Masses
- Chapter Five: Armed Propaganda And Non-Collaboration
- Chapter Six: Towards A Broad Front
- Chapter Seven: Planning For People's War
- Chapter Eight: Leading From Behind
- Chapter Nine: Tactics Of Talks, Tactics Of Confrontation
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Conscripts To Their Age: African National Congress Operational Strategy, 1976-1986
- Organisations
- African National Congress (ANC)
- The African National Congress
- A Chronological History of the ANC
- ANC Structures
- The ANC according to itself
- The ANC's perception of the historical context
- List of ANC Members who Died in Exile March 1960 - December 1993
- Died at the hands of the enemy
- Zimbabwe - Wankie 1967
- Wankie: 1967 (Unknown Battle)
- Sipolilo 1967-1968
- Comrades Killed In Rhodesia In 1979
- Zimbabwe Post-Independence Killings
- Angola - Letter Bombed/SADF Raid
- Botswana - Assassinations/Bombs/Raids
- Mozambique - Assassinations/Bombs/Raids
- Lesotho - Raids/Assassinations
- Zambia - Assassinations/Bombs
- Namibia - Caprivi, Katimo Molilo 1970s
- Swaziland - Assassinations/Raids/Bombs/Poison
- France
- Angola - Deaths Due To Unita Ambushes
- Comrades Killed By Mutineers - Pango, Angola
- Angola - Accidents
- Angola - Training Accidents
- Motor Vehicle Accidents
- Uganda
- Botswana
- Mozambique
- Lesotho
- Zimbabwe
- Zambia
- Tanzania
- Senegal
- Missing - As reported by the Motsuenyane Commission
- Deaths from natural causes
- Suicides
- Executed by order of our military tribunal
- Died at the hands of the enemy
- Short ANC History – 1912-1982
- Skweyiya Commission Report
- A. Introduction
- B. The Terms of Reference
- C. The perception of the Commission
- D. The Applicable Principles
- E. The Evidence
- F. Conditions of Detention
- G. Physical conditions of Detention
- H. Maltreatment
- J. Other Prisons and Places of Detention
- K. Forced Confessions
- L. The Treatment of the Mutineers
- M. The Loss of Property
- N. Context, Justification and Explanation
- O. Recommendations
- South African Liberation - The Communist Factor - Thomas Karis
- The ANC After Nkomati - By Tom Lodge
- Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF)
- Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
- Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO)
- Black People's Convention (BPC)
- Politics 1970-1979
- Pro Frelimo Rallies Banned
- Tribute to Steve Biko
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa)
- Democratic Party (DP)
- Freedom Alliance (FA)
- Human Rights Commission (HRC)
- Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA)
- Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)
- Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
- Independent Media Commission (IMC)
- Indian Congresses
- MK
- Absence of Some Former MK Cadres from Walmanstal
- ANC 48th National Conference
- ANC at war (I)
- ANC distances itself from MK protesters
- "Umkhonto We Sizwe - Born of the People"
- ANC planned military bombings
- Documented proof of ANC's sabotage plans
- ANC-MK Statement on the 32nd Anniversary Celebrations of MK
- ANC's just war - Human Rights Watch letter
- Armed Struggle and Umkhonto - Forward into the 1970s and '80s
- Wishing Us Away: Challenges facing ex-combatantsin the 'new' South Africa by
- The Wankie Campaign
- ANC killed mostly civilians
- Discussion Article - The Revolutionary Army
- Executions (specifically Angola Camp Mutiny)
- Freedom Fighters Betrayed By Own Liberation Movements!!!
- History of Umkhonto we Sizwe
- Inside Quadro
- Interview with Mayibuye
- The Armed Struggle Spreads
- The Sabotage Campaign
- Joint MK, APLA, TDF and VENDA Defence Force
- Keynote Address Of The President Of The African National Congress - Cde. Nelson Mandela
- List Of MK Operations
- Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe
- TRC Report Released
- Message From The Prime Minister Of India, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi
- MK/APLA Meeting
- Operations Report: The Department of Intelligence and Security of the African National Congress
- MK Statement On The Right-Wing Attack On The World Trade Centre
- Umkhonto we Sizwe -Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994)
- London Review of Books
- Move to armed struggle, operational strategy and MK's role in ANC
- New Left Review - Interview With Trevor Ngwane
- On MK Command Structure
- On Setting Up MK
- Operation Mayibuye
- Quatro Camps
- Quest for cadres' re-burial in SA
- Situation Affecting Integration Of Umkhonto We Sizwe Into New Sandf
- Small Arms in Southern Africa by Enough Sishi
- South Africa - Total strategy
- Statement On Death Sentences Passed On Three Members Of ANC And Umkhonto We Sizwe
- Statement on the 26th Anniversary of Umkhonto
- Stuart Commission Report
- Capture The Citadel
- Mobilise Our Black Power
- 20th Anniversary Speech of Umkhonto we Sizwe
- Statement On Signing Declaration
- The ANC Signs the Geneva Protocols
- Holding the ANC Accountable
- Umkhonto weSizwe
- Umkhonto we Sizwe - Brief Summary
- Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Code
- Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operations reportÂ
- Extract - BBC Interview with Joe Slovo 1986
- National Party (NP)
- National Peace Accord and Secretariat
- Ossewa Brandwag (OB)
- Pan-African Congress (PAC)
- South African Council of Churches (SACC)
- South African Communist Party (SACP)
- African Communist Journal Extracts
- No 1 - October 1959
- No 10 - July/August 1962
- No 129 - Second Quarter 1992
- No 130 - Third Quarter 1992
- Mass action works!
- The Leipzig Option
- Just how possible is peace?
- The Bisho march and massacre: An assessment
- Pretoria's men in Ciskei
- SABC and the massacre
- Bisho and the anti-Communist campaign
- Negotiations: What room for compromise?
- The boat, the tap and the Leipzig way
- 'Civil society' and democracy: A rejoinder
- No 131 - Fourth Quarter 1992
- No 132 - First Quarter 1993
- No 133 - Second Quarter 1993
- Finding our feet, without losing our heads
- Strategic objectives of the National Liberation Struggle
- Is a retreat from National Democratic Revolution to National Bourgeois Revolution imminent?
- Moving beyond the Social Contract by Langa Zita*
- Renewal -the NUMSA route?
- The role of trade unions in the transition
- Developing a strategic perspective for the Coloured Areas in the Western Cape by Max Ozinsky and Ebrahim Rasool
- SACP National Strategy Conference
- The role of the SACP in the transition to democracy and socialism
- Empowering our people and countering the medium-term threat of counter revolution and destabilisation
- No 134 - Third Quarter 1993
- No 135 - Fourth Quarter 1993
- No 137 - Second Quarter 1994
- No 138 - Third Quarter 1994
- No 139/140 - First Quarter 1995
- Joe Slovo the Revolutionary
- He was shaped by history, people, and his family
- But Joe proved me wrong
- The character of our Party
- Challenges of the transition: a COSATU perspective
- Challenging the neo-liberal agenda in South Africa.
- The Socialist Conference extracts from an SACP Central Committee assessment
- The big myth - sunset clauses and the public service
- No 142 - Third Quarter 1995
- The RDP needs class struggle
- The IFP, under strain
- The need for an effective ANC-led political centre
- Corruption blocks development
- Handling corruption in Cuba
- Organising Nurses
- SA in solidarity with Cuba
- Imperialism's complicity in the East Timor atrocity
- The critical tasks - a popular programme and rebuilding our party political structures
- Harry Gwala - Man of Steel
- Jack Simons - teacher, student of life, communist
- Reclaiming the Dictatorship of the Proletariat
- Making sense of the transition
- No 144 - Second Quarter 1996
- Economic policy - the debate sharpens
- The real gravy train
- Approaches to a strategy for job creation
- The labour market and job creation
- Job creation - the role of the public sector
- RDP Council Rebuilding the Mass Democratic Movement for a people-driven RDP
- An international perspective on the "people-driven" character of the RDP
- Land and agrarian questions in SA - A socialist perspective
- No 149 - Second Quarter 1998
- General
- African Communist Journal Extracts
- Tripartite Alliance
- Transitional Executive Council (TEC)
- Trade Union Federations
- COSATU
- NACTU
- SACTU
- Sactu Appears Upon The Scene
- United Democratic Front (UDF)
- Janet Cherry
- List Of Organisations Which Support And Are Affiliates Of The Regional UDF
- Messages Of Support
- Mkhuseli Jack
- UDF Press Release On The Unbanning Of Political Organisations
- Vaal Triangle article
- Archives Groups/South African History Archives: Individual Entries
- UDF Definition
- Statement By UDF National Executive Committee On National Launching Of UDF
- UDF Reference
- UDF unites apartheid divides
- Political Organisations in South Africa as at 1991
- African National Congress (ANC)
- Afrikaner-Broederbond (AB)
- Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
- Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO)
- Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)
- Black Sash
- Churches
- Congress of South African Students (COSAS)
- Congress Of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
- Conservative Party (CP)
- Democratic Party (DP)
- End Conscription Campaign (ECC)
- Five Freedoms Forum (FFF)
- Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP)
- Inkatha Yenkululeko Yesizwe (Inkatha Freedom Party) - IFP
- Labour Party (LP)
- Mass Democratic Movement (MDM)
- Natal Indian Congress (NIC)
- National Council Of Trade Unions (NACTU)
- National Education Coordinating J Committee (NECC)
- National Forum (NF) (1983)
- National Party (NP)
- National People's Party (NPP)
- National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
- New Unity Movement (NUM)
- Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)
- Solidarity (SOL)
- South African Bureau for Racial Affairs (SABRA)
- South African Communist Party (SACP)
- South African Confederation Of Labour (SACOL)
- South African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
- Trade unions
- Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
- United Democratic Front (UDF)
- United Workers' Union Of South Africa (UWUSA)
- African National Congress (ANC)
- SAIRR 1934-2000
- Violence
- Bisho massacre
- Bophututswana
- Cape
- Ciskei
- Countrywide
- Accumulation and distribution of weapons for the SDUs
- Alleged police complicity in political violence
- Chronology of Human Rights Violations
- Early 90's violence through to CODESA 1 & 2
- From Buthelezi IFP to Third Force theory
- FW admits apartheid bombing
- Killings associated with SDUs
- Political Accountability for the People's War
- Political Violence in South Africa
- Political Violence in the 90's period of transition
- SAP Response to TEC on Recommendations on Violence
- Self Defence Units (SDU's)
- Motion by the South African Government
- Report Number Four of the Technical Committee on Violence: 2 June 1993
- Report Number Five of the Technical Committee on Violence 26 July 1993
- Final Report on Attacks on Members of the South African Police
- The Anti-BLA Campaign
- The IFP, KZP and the battle for supremacy in KwaZulu and Natal
- The Law and Violence in South African History
- The National Peace Accord and its Structures
- The 'Third Force'
- Torture
- TRC Perspectives on violence
- Types of gross human rights violations by mass movements
- Sequels to the Rioting in Sekhukhuneland
- Unrest and Rioting among Africans
- Variants of violence in South Africa
- Violations associated with public order policing
- Violence in the wake of Chris Hani's assassination
- Deadly Marionettes: State-Sponsored Violence in Africa
- Dimensions of Turmoil
- Mandela: 'Nothing will stop us!'
- The Police And The Violence In South Africa
- Political Violence: 1991
- Kwazulu-Natal
- Caprivi Training Camps
- Reports and Violence
- 1990s: The IFP-ANC war for supremacy in KwaZulu, Natal and the PWV
- Indian South Africans - The Struggle to be South African
- The Durban Riots
- Human Rights Watch
- KwaZulu Violence
- KwaZulu/Natal: Violence and the killing of IFP leaders
- TEC Report on KZN Hit Squads (1)
- TEC Report on KZN Hit Squads (2)
- Justice Denied: Political Violence in KwaZulu-Natal after 1994
- The Natal Story: Sixteen Years of Conflict
- Introduction
- Chapter Eight: Destabilising the Opposition in 1994
- Chapter Nine: Progress is Made But Problems Persist in 1995 and 1996
- Chapter Ten: Increased Repression and Continued Attack in 1995 and 1996
- Chapter Eleven: Other Views on Violence in KwaZulu/Natal from 1992 to 1994
- Chapter Twelve: Further Allegations and Evidence About Violence in 1995 and 1996
- Chapter Thirteen: The Questions that Remain Unanswered
- 'Violence spiral' led to Boipatong massacre
- Transvaal
- Bombing of Cosatu House
- Bombing of Khotso House
- Report on the Shooting Incidents which took place in the Centre of Johannesburg on Monday, 28 March 1994
- Goldstone Commission press release - Jhb violence March 1994
- Goldstone Commission on AWB invasion of Multi-Party Negotiations at WTC
- TEC Resolution on East Rand Violence and Services
- Documents and Reports
- Mandela diary extract
- Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective
- Colonial background - Apartheid
- Commonality in Divided Societies
- Demographic Characteristics of South Africa in the late 1980s
- Exploring Reasons for the Collapse of Apartheid
- Extracts from Newcastle Advertiser 1949-53
- South Africa Focus Group Research 1992- 1997
- Historians, history and the South African TRC
- The Insurgent Origins of Democratization in South Africa
- Left Factionalism and the Democratic Revolution
- Media Misled Over Missing TRC Files
- Negotiated Settlements
- Negotiations and Change
- On Afrikaners
- Opposition splinters into eleven parties
- Poster - Jimmy Kruger
- Rivonia: Telling it as it was
- Still Standing: The Sharpeville Six
- The Eighties
- The end of the seventies
- The Homelands
- The Indian community in SA
- Toward Robben Island: The Rivonia Trial
- Why the South Africa United Front failed: Disruptive role of the Pan Africanist Congress
- Winning democracy in South Africa: 'A process not a lightning flash'
- Defiance Campaign In South Africa, Recalled
- Memoirs of the Island
- Long Walk Of Nelson Mandela - Interview With George Bizos
- Mwezi Twala - A soldier's story
- The Death of Chris Hani:Â An African Misadventure
- The Legal Struggles For A Democratic South Africa During The 1980's
- The Mating Game Plan
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850 – 1950
- The Criminal Justice System and the Protection of Human Rights: The Role of the Prosecution Service
- State of the Nation Address 1994 - Mandela
- Transparent, Accountable and Participatory Governance - NDI Report
- Links and References
- Publisher's Contact Details
- Mac Maharaj
This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.
Holomisa, Harrington Bantubonke (Bantu)
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Holomisa was born on 25 July 1955 at Mqanduli, Transkei, the son of the late Chief Bazindlovu Holomisa who had been a member of the Transkei Legislative Assembly. He attended primary school at Mqanduli and junior and senior secondary school at Jongilizwe College, Tsolo, a school for the sons of chiefs and headmen.
Holomisa joined the Transkei Defence Force in 1976 and was commissioned in 1978. He was one of the first blacks to undertake the South African staff and management course at the Army College in Pretoria. He became Commander of the Transkei Defence Force in April 1987, a post he held until April 1994.
He was an active sportsman, becoming national secretary of the Transkei Rugby Board in 1982-84 and President of the Combined Forces Sport from 1981-83.
In 1988 he ousted the then ruler of the Transkei, Stella Sigcau, and became Chairman of the Military Council of Transkei. Between 1988 and 1989, his government unban approximately 33 organisations which had been banned by his predecessors. His government worked closely with the liberation movements. As a result, Transkei had a smooth transition prior to the national elections of 1994; he also led the Transkei delegation to the CODESA negotiations, which in turn led to 1994 elections.
He was chosen by the ANC's Election Committee to campaign nationally alongside Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Cyril Ramaphosa, Winnie Mandela, the late Joe Slovo and the late Steve Tshwete during the democratic election in 1994. In 1994, he received the most votes in the ANC National Congress.
He was appointed Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism of South Africa in the 1994 government of national unity. In 1996, he was expelled from the ANC after testifying to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about irregular activities in the Transkei. He refused to retract his testimony, arguing that what he had said was of historical knowledge to all concerned.
Since 1989, Holomisa has addressed forums around the world, including the United Nations Security Council (on the need for the UN to monitor violence in South Africa); the Confederation of British Industry; the Carnegie Endowment, USA; the Council on Foreign Relations, USA; CSIS, USA; African-American Institute (AAI), USA; addressed Prayer Breakfast meetings in USA, Zambia and Uganda; the World Tourism Organisations; the World Travel and Tourism Council; Convention on Biodiversity and many other environmental international conventions and meetings all over the world. In 2000, he attended a Democratic Convention in Los Angeles, USA.
Major General Bantu Holomisa co-founded the United Democratic Movement (UDM) in 1997 with Roelf Meyer and currently serves as its President. In 1999, within a period of twenty months since the United Democratic Movement was established in 1997, he together with thirteen other members of the organisation were elected to Parliament. The UDM is also represented in no less than six provincial legislatures.
He is married with two children
Sources: www.udm.org.za
Gastrow, S. 1995. Who's Who in South African Politics, Number 5. Ravan Press: Johannesburg.
Peter Joyce, A Concise Dictionary of South African Biography (1999) Cape Town. Francolin
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