The United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Apartheid published its first Interim Report, satisfied with the number of countries that had broken off diplomatic and commercial relations with South Africa. The Committee also noted with regret that close to twenty member states still maintained diplomatic and commercial ties with South Africa. The country was under immense pressure globally because of its Apartheid policy that discriminated against black people. The Apartheid policy was introduced by the National Party (NP) after it won the heavily contested elections of 1948 following the end of the World War II, 1945. After emerging victorious, DF Malan said “today South Africa belongs to us once more. South Africa is our own for the first time since Union, and may God grant that it will always remain our own.”
8 May 1963
Special Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
- Updated
- 30 Sep 2019
How we know this
- 01O’Malley, P. ‘1963’ from Nelson Mandela Center of Memory, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org.za (Accessed: 12 April 2013)
- 02Britanica, ‘National Party (NP)’, [online], available at https://global.britannica.com (Accessed: 12 April 2013)
- 03South African History Online, ‘National Party’, [online], available at www.sahistory.org.za (Accessed: 12 April 2013)
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2013, May 3). Special Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095580
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South African History Online. "Special Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report." South African History Online. May 3, 2013. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0095580.
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