Underground Documents

This section contains documents - leaflets, pamphlets, newspapers and transcripts of radio broadcasts - distributed inside South Africa by underground structures or radio during the thirty years that the ANC was banned - 1960-1990

'General Strike' - Statement by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the National Action Council following the stay-at-home, May 1961
The ANC Spearheads Revolution. Leballo? No! - May 1963
Broadcast on ANC Radio by Walter Sisulu, 26 June 1963
The ANC Calls on you - SAVE THE LEADERS! - October 1963
'We are at War' - pamphlet issued in June 1968
'We are at War' - pamphlet issued in June 1968
June 26 Leaflet, 1968
Christmas and New Year Message Distributed Illegally in South Africa, December 1973
Vukani! Awake! Underground organisational bulletin, No.1, December 1974
Vukani! Awake! Underground organisational bulletin, No.2, March 1975
Flyer distributed by 'leaflet bomb' commemorating Sharpeville day, 19 March 1976
Flyer distributed by 'leaflet bomb' in response to Soweto shootings, 8 July 1976
Flyer distributed by 'leaflet bomb' commemorating Heroes Day, 15 December 1976
Flyer distributed by 'leaflet bomb' commemorating anniversary of Soweto uprising, June 1977
1978: Anti-Apartheid Year - Flyer Distributed by 'Leaflet Bomb', Cape Town, December 1977
Boycott the SAIC. Article published in Jana Shakti, an underground bulletin distributed in the Indian community, 1980
Take the Struggle to the White Areas - Distributed in SA in late 1985
How to Master Secret Work. Pamphlet for Underground Workers, 1980s
Call to Black Soldiers and Police. Leaflet distributed in October 1989
Briefing on Personal Security, Safety and Surveillance. Handbook for Underground Operatives, 1989