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… and Building Work Act June , Supporters of Malan draft constitution for a future republic July 8 , Deputation from … committees of the ANC, South African…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… which negotiated and amended contentious parts of the new constitution. He would also come to serve the same auditory …
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… formed in 1983. Specifically, the UDF opposed the 1983 constitution for a Tricameral Parliament of Whites, Indians …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… the reserves. In 1923, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) was formed as a national Indian organisation to fight … legislation entrenched by the Hertzog…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… In the 1940s the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) also became more assertive and militant, and in … or play an overt political role again until the 1940s…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… in the ANC. In 1943, Xuma worked at drafting a new ANC constitution with the help of Calata, Prof ZK Matthews , Bram … its December 1943 conference in…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
Women delegates to the inaugural conference of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… Durban : 1. Fatima Meer – (South African Indian Congress) SAIC . 2. Bertha Mkize – ANCWL. 3. Henrietta Ostrich – … Ngoyi – ANCWL. 3. Rica Hodgson – COD. 4…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… of Professor Macmillian and Bram Fischer , draft a new constitution for the ANC. 16 December, The new ANC … racial policies. The South African Indian…
BiographySimon Nkoli
… of LGBTQI+ people were included in South Africa’s new constitution. Through his activism, Nkoli led South Africa to …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… elected president of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). 1949 - Violence broke out in Durban when impoverished … against their right to cross-examine…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… of the office of the Coordinating Committee. ANC and SAIC leaders are arrested and charged for promoting Communism … the National Party government. The ANC…
BiographyChris Hani
… to death. In a peculiar twist, the new government (and constitution) they had actively fought against, caused in …
BiographyLouis Botha
… at the Wanderers, Johannesburg, to oppose the Lyttelton Constitution. Here, they protested against Chinese labour, … deliberations of the National Convention…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… of I.C. Meer. The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) launches the Passive Resistance Movement against the … after, at a meeting of the ANC and the…
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… The relationship between our Constitution and other laws The Constitution is a law passed by Parliament and it is the … or ethnic groups. All these laws have…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… `million signature' petition against the South African constitution of 1983, which introduced the Tricameral …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) talks, where the new constitution for a democratic South Africa was being forged. …
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution - the interim constitution of 1993. The Court, the key institution of our … democracy…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… to fight oppression. He was addressing the Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) at a conference in Johannesburg on 23 … further. Rev. Alan Boesak, speaking…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… Chief Luthuli opened the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) conference in Durban and two years later on 12 October … 28 September, Dr Monty Naicker is…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… following organisations: South African Indian Congress (SAIC) , A.P.O, ANC Youth League, Council of Non-European … Congress (ANC) and the South African…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution' Serialisation of The Soul of a Nation - Constitution-Making in South Africa . We will…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… elections for the South African Indian Council (SAIC). It was decided that the Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) be established to oppose the SAIC…
The South African Human Rights Commission
… South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, … and all laws are subject to…
EPILOGUE
… immediate transfer of power before a proper transitional constitution is negotiated'. (Paragraph 3 Page 4) 1.2 This is … set in motion the process of drawing…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Some 297 040 Indians out of a total of 350 000…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… on constitutional matters. Chapter 8 of the final Constitution, entitled "Courts and Administration of … the courts, which are independent and subject only…
Independent Electoral Commission
… Electoral Commission is a permanent body created by the Constitution to promote and safeguard democracy in South … Commission (IEC) in terms of the…