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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…
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 …
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 …
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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,…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… even further. The culmination of this was the Separate Representation of Voters Act, in which "Coloureds" were … population, waged a long battle to have…
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
… 2017, President Jacob Zuma exercised his constitutional rights as the head of the executive branch by appointing, … Exchange (JSE) are owned by black South…