This website is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representative of the African National Congress (ANC), any political party, the South African government, or any other organisation.
This is an independent, non-partisan educational resource created to preserve historical knowledge about the South African liberation struggle. Nothing on this site constitutes political advocacy, party-political material, or an official position of any organisation.
All content is compiled from publicly available archived sources — specifically the ANC website as captured by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine in 2012 and 2017 — for educational and informational purposes only.
To preserve the memory of those who gave everything — so that their words are not lost, their documents do not disappear, and the history of the liberation struggle remains accessible to anyone who wants to understand it.
The ANC website has changed significantly over the years. Documents that were once publicly accessible have moved, changed address, or disappeared entirely. This archive captures two moments in that history — November 2012 and August 2017 — and presents them in a clean, accessible form.
This site is built from two Wayback Machine crawls of the ANC's official website:
Content from both archives has been fused into a single site. Where the same page exists in both archives, the more complete version is used. Dead links are marked with # and noted as unavailable.
No editorial changes have been made to the content of any document. Speeches, statements, resolutions and articles appear exactly as they were published on the ANC's own website. The only changes made are structural: the removal of the Wayback Machine toolbar, the fixing of relative paths, and the application of a consistent modern layout.
Where historical accounts differ or remain contested, we have not adjudicated — we have preserved the original text as published.
The Wayback Machine's crawls captured the index and listing pages for each document category, but did not follow every individual document link. This means the archive contains comprehensive listings of what documents exist, but the full text of many individual articles, speeches and statements could not be recovered from these two crawls.
We are working to supplement this with additional crawl data. If you have access to specific documents and would like to contribute them to the archive, please use the contact page.
Primary source archive on human rights and the liberation struggle
Visit saha.org.za → South African History OnlineComprehensive online archive of South African historical content
Visit sahistory.org.za → Nelson Mandela FoundationArchives, speeches, and educational resources
Visit nelsonmandela.org → Truth & Reconciliation CommissionOfficial records of TRC hearings, findings, and victim testimonies
Visit justice.gov.za → O'Malley ArchiveExtensive archive on the liberation movement, hosted by the Mandela Foundation
Visit omalley.nelsonmandela.org → National Archives of South AfricaOfficial national repository of public records and historical documentation
Visit nationalarchives.gov.za →For questions about this archive, to report an error, or to contribute documents, please use the contact page. For official ANC communications, please visit the official ANC website.
