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ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… would never have been a secret member of a political party Speech by George Bizos SC, Constitutional Litigation … the then Basutoland. The election victory…
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… had been revoked. In 1963 Makeba testified before the United Nations (UN) of how the apartheid government had … citizenship. After speaking out against…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… Advice Offices were established in the 50s, the Liberal Party objected on the grounds that it would be doing the … so we contended, Resolution Number so and…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… for the regime’s end. She helped establish the Centre party in 1968, at the time the only party dedicated to a non-racial future, and became its press ……
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… executing tasks entrusted to him by the leadership of the party. He was a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). He…
EventHertzog and Smuts to form a coalition
… opposed moves to form a coalition between the National Party (NP) and the South African Party of Jan Smuts in 1933, and rejected the resulting …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… P.W. Botha’s career as both the South Africa and National Party leader. The following year Botha was succeeded by FW de … lifted the ban on the ANC, the…
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
… will use his good offices to inform Member States at the United Nations of the contents of this document and call on … immediately it is printed. (Signed) O…
Africa South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… of Betrayal. Cartoon, David Marias. An Open Letter to the United Nations, Paramount Chief of the Hereros. South West Africa and the United Nations, Mburumba…
EventUN names four experts to investigate apartheid in South Africa
… On 13 January 1964, the United Nations Secretary-General named a team of four experts … (Ghana), Josip Djerdja (Yugoslavia), Sir Hugh Foot (United Kingdom)…
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
… The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid … African Government under review throughout the year. The United Nations had been concerned with the…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… ability to reconcile two seeming irreconcilable things: party loyalty and judicial independence. Only a statement by the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… of the globe, bringing with us our varied experiences, but united by a common and militant resolve to ensure that the … takes place in the Republic of Zambia…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… from the narrow and bigoted tribalism of the Nationalist Party. While the white ruling group in South Africa is … on the soil of any country. We have fully…
Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944
… of trusteeship and declared that it has never been a party to the acceptance or working of these Acts; (ii) It … on full democracy for all the people, do we…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… won a flawed presidential election in July 1996. Baré's party, Union Nationale des Indépendants pour la Renouveau … in 265 newly established communes. The…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… the Dalai Lama is denied a visa to attend his birthday party, saying he would ‘pray for the downfall of the ANC’. … minister David Cameron and the Secretary…
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… Its main political parties were the Christian Democratic Party and the Progressive People's Party that was established in 1987 and later banned. Prior to ……
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… government a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 elections. As leader of the new …
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Janusz Waluz, and Conservative Party (CP) politician Clive Derby-Lewis to death for assassinating the South African Communist Party…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… an unreliable witness.Subsequent to the ruling, Democratic Party (DP) leader Zach de Beer stated that: "The fact that … of the police force must encourage…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… magnates, the technocrats and the big businessmen of the United States have only to step on to a plane and they are … solution that seems to it the easiest,…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… ka Isaka Seme and Sol Plaatje . It has been the ruling party in South Africa since apartheid. 1948 The state of …
South African Labour history
… South African Party and the National-Labour Pact Government …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… , Vereeniging. On 2 February 1990 the National Party (NP) government unbanned political parties and began a …
The strangulation of activity
… Suppression of Communism Act. It declared the Communist Party of South Africa to be unlawful and provided for the … organisations, e.g. the Zimbabwean-based…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of experts for the support of victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa Mobilise world support for African Liberation struggle, 09 April 1973, OSLO
… between the Organisation of African Unity and the United Nations in the fight against apartheid and … is a real need. Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa,…
Mobilise World Support for African Liberation Struggle - Statement, on behalf of Liberation Movements, at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 9 April 1973
… between the Organisation of African Unity and the United Nations in the fight against apartheid and … is a real need. Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa,…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… As the South African Government, led by the National Party under D.F. Malan was introducing Apartheid in 1948, … It emerged from the elections of 1948 won…
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… deal with a revolt by far right groups within the National Party which begun under Verwoerd. Vorster built on the National Party's policy programme but his…