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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… police of Black activist Sizwe Kindile and of the human rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. 28 April, ANC leaders Joe … of all special counter-insurgency forces…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… against all discriminatory laws and for full franchise rights for all is held. Police open fire in the Alexandra … by Dr. James Moroka. 30 May, The ANCYL …
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… COSATU will not attempt to respond to the full ranging issues covered in the speech. This statement therefore deals only with those issues at the core of…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… sympathised with the movement. Indian Women Excluded The "representation" referred to by Mr. Nicholls and which is … votes for the coming general election,…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… the pivotal role of artists in promoting debate on human rights issues. The lecture series is in line with South African …
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… upon the Biennale, no dominant logic or principal mode of representation was discernable, specifically as pertains to … in South Africa was predominantly…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… the government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act commonly referred to as the "Ghetto Act". … while the second offered Indians…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 19 September 2003
… from resolving our conflict, which inform our approach to issues and in building our country. We learnt, for example … of the multiparty negotiation process,…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… way of accommodating the demands of Black people for basic rights enjoyed by whites or the country will be plagued by … rationale for segregation and the…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… expired or to remain in Natal as a citizen enjoying the rights and privileges of white Natalians. But this solemn … All three provinces were involved, with…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point of … of self determination necessarily…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… the usual way. All we ask is to be given in return those rights which belong to all citizens in a democratic state. We … desire of the then Government of…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… accept this version of identity politics. Rastafarian representation of Selassie For Rastafarians, Ethiopia is Zion … the claim: “its contribution to…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… Africans as part of the United Party on national issues, for they are not supposed to ally themselves with any … Parliamentary Representatives easier in…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and Country in the hour of greatest need be denied any rights and privileges at the gift of the State? I answer … February, The ANCYL national president,…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… act which restricted their economic and residential rights to specific areas in the country. The Indian community … Africans formed a common membership. The…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… in mass struggles that focus on organising workers around issues of workers’ rights, the SACP continues to play an important role in South … the CPSA focused…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… in South Africa.”( WJ du Plessis, African Indigenous Land Rights in a Private Ownership Paradigm, PER, 2011, Volume 14, … specifically proscribes Africans…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… the first time to look possible, and even immanent. The representation of the ANC by government and Afrikaner and … the communists waiting to destroy whites,…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… Movement of the in the struggle for full citizenship rights. The campaign, which would after the "elections", was … people of the Cape not to betray them by…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… The Imbumba aimed to unite African people on political issues in fighting for national rights. Some of the leading figures in its formation included …
Independent Electoral Commission
… the ability to make informed choices and exercise their rights to vote for their chosen parties. To create a … held on 26-29 April 1994 under a system of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… constitutional democracy in which a finely-crafted Bill of Rights enjoys pride of place. It is the product of … birth certificate of a new South African…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… coalitions and advocacy groups. What are civil rights? Civil rights are the protections and privileges given to all … of America. The Civil War begins. 1863:…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… a democratic elected government. 8 November, Thabo Mbeki issues a statement at the General Assembly of the United … Ministers attends the occasion. 1999 3…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… are free we will want our communities involved in public issues in education, wealth care and numerous other issues … We will accept nothing less than the…
Apartheid power in crisis
… years. Between 23 January and 22 December 1989, the Human Rights Commission had recorded 53 hunger strikes involving … of the security forces. In a move to…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… facilities for tree linguistic development. Bill of Rights and Affirmative Action (H) The Constitution shall include a Bill of Rights based on the Freedom…
Pro Veritate
… of the ruling National Party. Christian viewpoints on such issues as conscientious objection, equality of economic … political and legislative change to…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… the British Empire (CBE) award for his services to human rights issues …