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ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the … of 1936. Consequently, “the elections of 1937, 1942 and 1948 were the only elections…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… 1924. The NP was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies … Government (1924-1938) After the Pact…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… 1910 First general election that followed the establishment of the Union of … White males had the right to vote. 1915 Second general election in which the…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that … the 20th century up until South Africa's first…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… electorate, and therefore decided to bring the next election forward to 1961. The NP had however only received a … their number up to 105 in the national…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… thought about only after National Party (NP) victory in 1948. In the 1830s when some Afrikaners left the Cape on the … (NP) decided to join their parties…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… Charter . The Universal Declaration of Human Rights In 1948, the same year the Apartheid Government came to power, … the regional rights created by the…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Timeline pre 1900 1902-1910 1910-1924 1924-1939 1939-1948 1948-1960 1960-1994 1939-1948:- The Second World War and its … League is formed. The NP under…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… political influence. In the years leading up to the 1924 election, the South African Party (SAP), led by Louis Botha , … (LP) joined forces to defeat the…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… Signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging 1904 First Municipal election held. Pietersburg’s population made up of 3,276 … areas 1939 September, Outbreak of the…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 … apartheid era Homeland politics The Segregated City, 1910-1948…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… was expected to make great strides in the coming general election of 1915. The outbreak of war in August 1914, … which consisted of white workers only. …
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… women as members at the Congress's 1943 conference and in 1948, the ANC Women's League was formed. The first official … conference in Rustenburg in 1997 and…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… was adopted by the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1948. It is the basis for human rights protection and … In the same year that the UDHR was accepted…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … against Apartheid was launched in…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the … unrest too was in…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Turning points in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) … National Party (NP) government followed up its unexpected election victory in 1948 with a…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… defining modern day South Africa for generations. The 1910 election gave expression to the majority of white South … the forging of a racially divided…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… resistance. White politics took a dramatic new turn in 1948. The National Party won the whites-only election in 1948 and began systematically to entrench its…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… policies. When the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election in 1948, it gave Afrikaner nationalists the opportunity to fully … nationalist leaders with enough…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… sides came to an agreement, and a fresh presidential election is organised. 1863 April, An earthquake damages … established. 1940 Rustenburg Platinum Mines…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… with an alternative to Smuts' ruling SAP. The NP and LP election pact brought these two partners a clear victory in the 1924 general election, although the…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… Broederbond policy. By the time Malan became premier in 1948 dependable members of the Broederbond were carefully … only after the Afrikaner nationalist…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… Constitution, the President could only officially set the election date after 30 April, but Nelson Mandela announced that he had revealed the election date…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… can take a huge toll on lives. Under apartheid In 1948 Buthelezi enrolled to study history and “Bantu …
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… Act of 1913 and the Pass laws . National Party victory 1948 National Party’s Logo. Image source The National Party ’s victory in the 1948 elections can be…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Selbourne Marabastad Pretoria the Segregated city Post-1948 Legislation This period marks the beginning of the rise … a very segregated country, apartheid…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… Malan, the DP won 36 seats in Parliament in the general election of September that year. However, the history of the … in South Africa's interim Constitution…
ArticleThe South African General Elections: 2019
… legislatures in each province. This will be the sixth election held since the end of the apartheid system in 1994. This election will determine who will…