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PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
… is named in honour of South Africa’s first Democratically Elected President and the structure itself is symbolic of …
PlaceUtrecht
… the Buffalo River Community came from. A.T. Spies was elected as governor of the newly formed republic. Utrecht …
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… Communist under various pseudonyms and in 1986, she was elected life president of FAWU. The role played by Ray …
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
… High School where he taught for ten years and was elected president of the African Teachers' Association. …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… Oppenheimer became actively involved in politics and was elected as a Member of Parliament for Kimberley in 1948 under …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… to lobby as representatives of the ANC. In 1991 Shope was elected president of the ANC's Women's League, a position she …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… At the annual conference, in December 1952, Luthuli was elected ANC President-General by a large majority. He was re-elected President-General in 1955 and in…
PlaceMontagu Pass
… was named after Sir John Montagu , who was the colonial secretary of the Cape at the time. Named for the chief of …
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… but a clear programme of action of what we will do when elected as government of South Africa. The EFF Manifesto 2019 … and Mbizana in the Alfred Nzo region…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… that this was inherently undemocratic as it would deny the elected majority party the possibility to govern, unfettered … same time each of these spheres of…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… out of their ' resigned endurance' . Albert Luthuli was elected president - general of the ANC in 1952. The goverment …
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… between 1960 and 1994 prompted the first democratically elected government of Nelson Mandela to institute, in 1995, a …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… to the House of Assembly. Four senators were elected by electoral colleges to represent Africans …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… were demanding the recognition for their unregistered and elected non racial workers’ committee. Organizers of the …
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… and that he and his party would have to be publicly elected to government. In the 1932 election the Nazis won 37% …
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… all secretaries resigned and new officials were to be elected. June, Gandhi engages in more negotiations with Smuts …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… of the UN General Assembly in Paris. Dr Naicker was elected president of the South African Indian Congress …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… population. -Dr Chetty Chairman; A.I. Meer, General Secretary." Led up the garden path If ever a body of … members. The present of the Transvaal Indian…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… already an activist in the Congress of Democrats and the SACP, there was no question of my not placing my expertise – … named after the Commission’s chairman…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… Communist Party. He was active as well in the ANC, being elected to its national executive in 1946 and as provincial … politics, serving a four-year term in…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda's former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… with the Tanzanian-aided invasion of 1979 and was re-elected in 1980 amid accusations of fraud. Factionalism led …
Address of President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the opening of the second session of the Democratic Parliament Cape Town, 17 February 1995
… officers, the whips, the chairpersons of committees, the Secretary of Parliament and his staff for the sterling work … into their own hands. The importance…
Archive1995 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 17 February 1995
… officers, the whips, the chairpersons of committees, the Secretary of Parliament and his staff for the sterling work … into their own hands. The importance…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… both were newspaper editors, both had held the position of secretary of their respective organisations. In one of his … (coloured), although a White man’s…
Statement of the NWC on the organisation`s readiness for the upcoming election, 10 May 2011
… extends its gratitude to its alliance partners, Cosatu, SACP and Sanco, for their practical and visible involvement …
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… it perceives as political obstacles, particularly the SACP and COSATU. Unfortunately, the Youth League's fetid …
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… committee controlling both. The functions of the General Secretary are confined to external relations (with the I.S., … General Secretary. …
Chapter 10
… Philip on the question of "Native Policy." Writing to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, he said: "I believe that … be increased from 3 to 10 members,…
PlaceTanzania
… In 2015, the first woman, H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan , was elected as Vice President, and in 2021, she became the first … In 2015, the first woman, H.E. Samia…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
… The conflict in Liberia subsided in 1997 and Taylor was elected president. However, his brutal regime soon sparked …