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ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… non-racist. The UDF had a Christian heritage, like the ANC , and in many ways looked like an internal wing of the ANC, but it did not associate with the…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades leaders of the South African Communist Party, … for me to be addressing you on the occasion…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… also distanced himself from the African National Congress (ANC), with whom he had a close relationship. This was the … However in 1996, under South Africa’s,…
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… III, became king in 1986 at the age of 18. Swaziland’s new constitution came into force in 2006 and includes a bill of rights. But these rights are limited…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… Convention to draw up a new non-racial and democratic Constitution for South Africa. The Conference Resolution … Convention of all South Africans to draw up…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… closer to the white Labour Party and the dormancy of the ANC, Gomas and other activists in and outside the CPSA … c. 1916 St Michaels and all Angels School…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… organisation. There has never been a colour bar in the constitution of the union, but despite this very few of the … were employed. I assured them that,…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… until it was reaffirmed in the Bill of Rights of the SA Constitution of 1996 . Cape suburbia displayed a 'mixed' … in Courville St, Gardens. District Five…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… "[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was … Maharaj. Introduction The two rationalisations central to…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… countries these included the African National Congress (ANC). Hector Peterson carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo, besides … meetings with the then exiled African…
ArticleTswana
… the 11 official languages recognized by the South African Constitution, it is also the national and majority language … of states of emergency and government…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
The leader of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party was ready to give the President's Council a chance as a start on the road to a…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Wiechers and Ismail Mahomed, a drafter of the Namibian constitution following the Turnhalle talks. He was a natural leader in South Africa's constitution…
Interview with Oliver Tambo in Luanda after summit meeting of Presidents of frontline states and Southern African Liberation Movements, 01 March 1977
… country just belongs to white people. On the contrary, the ANC says South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We would … shoulders to ensure our perpetual…
O. R. Tambo interviewed in Luanda after Summit Meeting of Presidents of Frontline States and Southern African Liberation Movements, 1977
… country just belongs to white people. On the contrary, the ANC says South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We would … shoulders to ensure our perpetual…
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… election of a Constituent Assembly, which would drew up a constitution. On 21 March 1990 the country gained …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… September 1909 and it came into force on 31 May 1910. The constitution in its final form had some federal traits in the …
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… In terms of section 248 (1) of the Interim 1994 Constitution, and acting on the advice of the Transitional …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… between various political parties for a new democratic constitution took place), the 'Battle of Ventersdorp', and …
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party (NP),…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… apartheid policies that prompted this violent assault. The ANC Vice-President, Oliver Tambo, was secretly driven across … A week after the state of emergency…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
… Accord. I would not say that none of the supporters of the ANC are actually - if I said none of them break the Peace … to say that certain areas in KwaZulu…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… activity, he initiated the process of rewriting the constitution and installing a tricameral parliament. But the … Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… the apartheid government. The African National Council (ANC) Women’s League, the Coloured Peoples’ Congress, the … a mass organisation, it will draw women…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… Germany;from the National and Democratic parties to the ANC and SACP;from the Mass Democratic Movement to Inkatha, … post-1990 and 1994. Negotiations as a…
PlaceMauritania
… Independent on November 28, 1960. By the terms of the constitution, Islam is the official state religion, but the …
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… objective, which is the drafting and adoption of the new Constitution for South Africa by democratically elected …
EventRichard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA, is born
… tasked with assisting in the drafting of the South African Constitution, which was adopted in 1996. From August 1994 to …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… on Gender Equality, a statutory body created by the constitution. The three groups' application against the law …
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… the government's willingness to defend the South African constitution and media freedom, thereby avoiding the …