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EventMinister of Public Works Stella Sigcau dies
… age of 69. Sigcau died of a recurring heart problem. In 1994 first-post apartheid government she was appointed Minister of Public …
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. It will firstly place the study in … A section on the MJC's involvement…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… South Africa. They put into practice the racist policy of apartheid, under which black South Africans were denied basic human rights. The system of apartheid…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
… felt would take up important positions in the country once apartheid was dismantled – something which British … Dan’s research examines UK-South African…
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… were severely affected. The most well-know massacre, the 1994 (Tutsi) Genocide, took place against the backdrop of a … democratic election. With the process…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… to be the father of South Africa. Mandela was an anti-Apartheid activist, which means that fought for those who … became a civil rights leader, leading many…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… to 1963, attending political education classes there. Anti-Apartheid political Activities, Arrest and Imprisonment The … Lusaka twice, paid for by the ANC,…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… text of South African literature. The novel draws on the post-romantic sensibility of Wuthering Heights, and depicts … all over the country. And it was the…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… culminating in the country’s first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans were able to cast their vote for the first time on 27…
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… National Symbols since 1994 In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and … and injustice for many people and was a part of the apartheid government…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… Meyer paved the way for fully democratic elections in 1994, in the manner they negotiated for a peaceful political … Meyer with the Ministry of…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… a ‘part of a whole arsenal of weaponry to be used against apartheid’. [21] This spurred Mabuza and two of her … a cultural committee in the ANC. When she…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… to become a dominant political and economic force in apartheid South Africa. The AHI began as an alliance between … the continuation of the cheap labour…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… N. An Ordinary Country. Issues in the Transition from Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa . Pietermaritzburg, … Independence in Namibia Boulder , Colorado…
Introduction
… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely hailed as a …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… led to South Africa’s first non-racial polls on 27 April 1994. His announcement came at the time when the party … experiencing difficulty due to infighting…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather Reclaiming Radical Traditions of … the KwaZulu regime, 1972-75 by David Hemson…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… by The Department of Education The transition from apartheid to democracy, from White minority rule to … at the time of the first democratic election on 27…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the ‘ … of colonialism, Afrikaner nationalism,…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… regime of the British. [xv] Chieftaincy under Apartheid William Beinhart (1985) asserts that modern … and over each was placed a headman, appointed to the…
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
… More recent initiatives by the post 1994 SA government to establish a media tribunal have been condemned as an attempt to introduce 'apartheid style…
ArticleThe South African General Elections: 2019
… This will be the sixth election held since the end of the apartheid system in 1994. This election will determine who will become the next …
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… both politics and negotiations during the struggle against apartheid. Women helped transform South Africa into a new, … now have a voice and freedom from the…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… he said in a TV interview. Under South Africa's policy of apartheid, Ciskei was designated as one of two homeland or … were reincorporated into South Africa…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… example of an inspiring transition from the oppression of apartheid to the freedom of democracy. The transition, … democratic system. There is also a third…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… because of the continual hardships and injustices of the apartheid state. Hallett grew up in a fishing village outside … and Nelson Mandela Mandela on the…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… most important revolutionaries that fought against the apartheid. Born into South Africa’s White community in the … The apartheid government was in power…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… of the NUM and at the eighth congress in February 1994, he was formally elected to this post. Motlanthe and James Motlatsi (NUM President) were …
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… be elected to Parliament. However, during the 1970s, the Apartheid government of South Africa granted … in the Bantustans/homelands stopped in the late…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan’s Day
… Day of Covenant. After the first democratic elections in 1994, December 16 continued to form part of the history of post apartheid South Africa. On 16…