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BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… Party, of which Schwarz was elected leader. The party’s constitution incorporated the principles of the Mahlabatini …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… decides to establish the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and Omar Hajee Amod Jhaveri is elected its first … Street, Durban. The Conference draws up and…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… for the Africans "a crisis comparable to those of the constitution of the Union and of the Natives Land Act … and the total dominance of the radicals in the…
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… emergency conference of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) is held in Johannesburg in order to formulate … Dr D.F. Malan, requests the South African…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… . . . nothing but necessity would induce me to adopt a constitution which would turn my country into an English … and New Zealand. Milner argued for the…
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
… A. B. Xuma revise the African National Congress’ (ANC) constitution and was charged with incitement during the …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… functioned under the umbrella organization, the SAIC (South African Indian Congress). However, in the … when Dr. G.M. Naicker emerged on the scene ( see SAIC…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… that, it perpetuated the policy of divide and rule. 2. The constitution of the tri-cameral parliament made it clear that … 3. Ostensibly it set out to do…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… On 6 February 1949 , the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the African National Congress (ANC) formed a joint … The commission commenced its work on…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… 9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… [ii] Both were charged with “various violations of the ANC Constitution, including bringing the ANC into disrepute … the president failed to uphold, defend…
BiographyDawood Seedat
… war as the British capitalist class … The present British constitution is but the outcome of a series of revolutions …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… representatives from the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) , African People’s Organisation (APO), ANC Youth … of Protest proposed by the ANC. 11 June, The…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… Organisation (APO) and South African Indian Congress (SAIC) as national organisations to represent Coloured and … was passed after Prime Minister J.G…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… Communist Party (SACP), the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the South African Coloured People's Organisation … demands that the LPSA made to the NP led…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… Nyoka also contributed to the formation of the Constitution of the Natal Organisation of Women. Nyoka was a …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… Party (SACP) , the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) , banned members of the Communist Party and other … Communist Party (SACP) South African Indian…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… the absence of a referendum for Indians ensured that the constitution was a fait accompli, since the Indian voter was … for the government-created South…
Other organisations related to the ANC
… Africanist Congress (PAC) South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Natal Indian Congress (NIC) Transvaal Indian Congress …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… democratic elections of 1994 and the birth of the new constitution. Human Rights and the Bill of Rights, including … the right of association, are guaranteed…
BiographySir George Grey
… who regarded him highly, and helped to draw up the free constitution granted to New Zealand. When he arrived at the …
BiographyDorothy Adams
… working with Albie Sachs researching issues around a new constitution of the post apartheid South Africa. As political …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… mentions that the AAC has burdened itself with a federal constitution, meetings every three years and has made no … international forum. The South African…
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… by the ANC, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the Coloured People's Organisation (CPO) and the … 26 June 1955. The Freedom Carter is a corner stone…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… [5] Prior to this, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) representatives had gone to Cape Town to present a … and Settlers Indian Association) That the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… details for the adoption of the Transvaal Indian Congress constitution January 24, The Transvaal Indian Congress … of May June 26 - 29, The South African…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… women's organisations. The Indian Council revamped as the SAIC: Reaction The National Indian Council set up by the … community to be called the South African…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…