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African National Congress, Historical Documents Archive
http://www.anc.org.za/ancd
ocs/history/

The African National Congress
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This section of the larger African National Congress (ANC) website presents a wealth of primary-source documents—pamphlets, newspaper articles, conference and trial proceedings, press statements, speeches—either produced by members of the ANC or directly concerned with the ANC’s role in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The “Speeches Archive” presents 400 speeches sorted by year, including 300 selected speeches, statements, and writings of Nelson Mandela. There are also roughly 300 documents written by ANC notables Chief Albert Lutuli, Oliver Tambo, and Thabo Mbeki. Additional materials are organized by subject, each section containing between two documents and several hundred documents. For example, a section on the 1946 African Mine Worker’s Strike offers two documents. Another, entitled “Walking With Pride,” presents hundreds of pages of statements from the trials of ANC supporters. Part of the site is devoted to outside links. The section entitled “Organisations Allied or Associated with the ANC” provides links to the document sections of nine ANC-supporting organizations. Of note is the South African Communist Party site, which provides 20 documents by prominent South African Communist Joe Slovo. With the documents organized partially by type and partially by subject, this site can feel a bit disorganized. But a keyword search feature on the left side of the opening page provides easy access to individual documents in this rich archive.

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