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BiographyTholakele Madala
Tholakele Madala was born in Kokstad on 13 July 1937. He matriculated at St John's College in Umtata before obtaining a BA degree at the University of Fort…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
… that worked on South Africa’s first national democratic constitution. After the first democratic elections Sparg …
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) stormed the World…
ArchiveJessie Duarte confirms ruling party’s idea of governance is incompatible with the Constitution by Professor Balthazar
… ruling party’s idea of governance is incompatible with the Constitution by Professor Balthazar from Daily Maverick , 12 … s-ruling-partys-idea-of-governance…
ArchiveDjibouti votes: ageing president set to extend his rule after changing constitution
… ageing president set to extend his rule after changing constitution …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… democratic elections of 1994 and the birth of the new constitution. Human Rights and the Bill of Rights, including … the right of association, are guaranteed…
BiographySir George Grey
… who regarded him highly, and helped to draw up the free constitution granted to New Zealand. When he arrived at the …
BiographyHalton Cheadle
… Cameron and Clive Thompson) Fundamental Rights in the New Constitution(1997 with Dennis Davis and Nicholas Haysom) …
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white … formed an organization called The Women's Defence of the Constitution League…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of Mokhotlong in the…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… which negotiated and amended contentious parts of the new constitution. He would also come to serve the same auditory …
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… formed in 1983. Specifically, the UDF opposed the 1983 constitution for a Tricameral Parliament of Whites, Indians …
BiographyMogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
Justice Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang. Mogoeng was born on 14 January 1961 in Goo-Mokgatha (Koffiekraal) village, north east of Zeerust, North West Province. He was…
BiographyLex Mpati
Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… press union, Solidarity News Service, Medu, and the ANC Constitution Committee, Klug inserted himself into the … United States, Bay Area Anti-Apartheid…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… intellectual framework that shaped South Africa’s 1996 constitution. In portraying rural South Africa as a Hobbesian … between John Locke’s social contract…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… and after democratization. The 1996 South African Constitution incorporated customary law into the South … ensuing legislative tensions between customary law…
BiographyVuyani Goniwe
Vuyani Goniwe, also known as Jorissen (his MK name), from Ntselamanzi Location, Alice in the Eastern Cape, left South Africa in 1977 together with Bandile…
BiographyHargreaves Nkosana Mbodla
Between 1959 and 1962, eight people were banished from various districts of Mpondoland, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape]. They included some of those who…
BiographyWilliam Henry Beaumont
… tasked with drafting the South African Nationalist Party’s constitution. After the Congress he became chairman of a … in the Umvoti Country Division on…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… group which dealt with constitutional principles and constitution-making, on behalf of the IFP. From August 1994 …
BiographyChris Hani
… to death. In a peculiar twist, the new government (and constitution) they had actively fought against, caused in …
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… constitutionalism and human rights in South Africa, Constitution Hill Trust, October 2009 Kentucky State Award, …
BiographyMark Shinners
… in the talks that led to South Africa’s first democratic constitution. He also gave accounts of the Bethal Treason …
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… South Africa, which would draft and adopt a democratic constitution. CODESA 1 The first plenary session of the … were mandated to investigate the…
BiographyIqbal Shaik Mohammed
Mohammed Iqbal Shaik was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg on 26 August 1958. He became politically active when he was a student leader at the M.L. Sultan…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… The relationship between our Constitution and other laws The Constitution is a law passed by Parliament and it is the … or ethnic groups. All these laws have…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… `million signature' petition against the South African constitution of 1983, which introduced the Tricameral …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) talks, where the new constitution for a democratic South Africa was being forged. …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… vindication of Abdurahman's political legacy that the constitution of the ‘new' South Africa is founded on …