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ArticleThe South African General Elections: 2019
… Africa on the 8th of May 2019 to elect a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province. …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… transfer of power. It is agreed that: only a constituent assembly elected on the basis of one-person-one-vote in a … the party is prepared to accept an…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… in 2014, the EFF obtained 25 seats in the National Assembly, after having secured 6.35 percent of the national …
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… DA gained 12.3 % of the vote, and 50 seats in the National Assembly. The DA was therefore confirmed as the most popular … of the national vote, acquiring 67…
ArticleThe South African general elections: Introduction
… model, consisted of a directly elected House of Assembly and an indirectly elected Senate. However, the …
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… Land Committee to raise funds for a Landless People’s Assembly. This Assembly brought together volunteers from organisations that … involved in land…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Tricameral Parliament with three houses ie. The House of Assembly for white people, the House of Representatives for … a separate tier from the Houses from…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… Act became law, Sam Kahn announced in the House of Assembly that the CPSA had disbanded. The decision to … Sam Kahn and Fred Carneson would retain their…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… Congress (ANC) in 1990 and was elected to the National Assembly of the South African Parliament in 1994, being 39th …
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… political power would remain concentrated in the House of Assembly, the representatives of the 'White' minority. Voters … the members of each chamber of…
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… of the People an event we have long awaited. This assembly will take place at a time when the political … ourselves to the struggle for freedom in that…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… and human rights. Structure: Organs of the AU The Assembly , comprising of Heads of State and Government, acts … as the supreme organ of the AU and meets…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… Introduction The Tricameral Parliament , a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… South Africa in global affairs and to elect a constituent assembly based on a one-person-one-vote basis in a united … start preparing for elections for a…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… 8 November, Thabo Mbeki issues a statement at the General Assembly of the United Nations about the need to give full … Accord. 5 December, Thabo Mbeki…
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
… out, and only Suzman retained her seat in the House of Assembly, suggesting that their Plan of Action was not well …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Minister of Defence Botha, appeals in the House of Assembly to the British government to uphold its honour in … candidates are nominated for the 166 seats in…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… British authorities did not make provisions for an elected assembly, and the longer they withheld this right, the more …
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… British authorities did not make provisions for an elected assembly, and the longer they withheld this right, the more …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… to elect three ‘Native Representatives’ to the House of Assembly and two members of the Cape Provincial Council. Four … to incorporation in a January 1946…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
… relations with the registered National Union of Motor Assembly and Rubber Workers of South Africa (NUMARWOSA) and …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… every aspect of the disenfranchised majority. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) passed Resolution 395(V) …
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… were not legally binding on member states. The Assembly of Heads of State and Government acted as the … the OAU which met annually and directed OAU policy. …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… world came together at the first United Nations General Assembly to enshrine a document against injustice, … of Human Rights was adopted by the United…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Africa. 27 January, Justice Minister Erasmus tells the Assembly that during the recent disturbances … on apartheid at the resumed 15th session of the General…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… South Africa in global affairs and to elect a constituent assembly based on a one-person-one-vote basis in a united … a debate on the percentage required for…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… five years he not only held on to the core of his House of Assembly support but also increased it. By 1939 his wing of … commanded exactly half of the…
EPILOGUE
… civil liberties including freedom of religion, speech and assembly protected by an entrenched and justiciable Bill of … With regard to the constitution…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… model, consisted of a directly elected House of Assembly and an indirectly elected Senate. However, the …
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… by an overwhelming 85 per cent of the Constitutional Assembly. This Constitution is one of the most advanced in …