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EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… A five-day conference of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) held in Cape Town , unanimously resolved to oppose the … pending a proposed round table…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various …
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… stand on constitutional reform, calling for: an entrenched Constitution incorporating a Bill of Rights an independent judiciary a federal Constitution in…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… organisation was made at the annual congress of the Anti-SAIC Committee, which also decided on the creation of a … The immediate task of the UDF was to…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… revision of the ANC came to be known as the Tambo Constitution. All the while he had to carry the burden of … a high-powered Commission of ANC legal people…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… a “fast unto death” to protest the newly proposed Indian constitution. It granted separate electorates to Hindus, … because it would write caste…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… South Africa, which would draft and adopt a democratic constitution. CODESA 1 The first plenary session of the … were mandated to investigate the…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… by dynamics within the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general feeling of the need to rejuvenate … Congress (ANC) , the South African…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… can learn about the basic human rights instilled in the Constitution and relate them to their own circumstances. … way process. They cannot be expected to…
ArticleA White Referendum
… held a referendum to gauge White opinion on the new constitution and tricameral parliament – it baulked at … prove disastrous for business and the economy…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… under the Department of Indian Affairs. In 1976, the SAIC took over certain educational functions. Indian …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… The National Action Council (successor to the ANC/SAIC Joint Planning Council) reported a ‘disquieting lull …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… of Professor Macmillian and Bram Fischer, draft a new constitution for the ANC. 16 December, The new ANC … ANC regarding the Smuts government racial policies…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… of this conference click here . 16 December, The new ANC constitution is adopted at the Congress’s annual conference. … elected to the Executive Committee…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… abolishing child labour and other working conditions. The ‘Constitution’ campaign was also aimed at influencing the amendment to the Constitution of the…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… of South Africa. The Act, which served as the Union's constitution until 1961, created a parliamentary government … of South Africa, an independent body…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… Campaign . The ANC, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) embarked … document would eventually become the…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… in 1966) the Kiambu Mafia became worried: according to the constitution when the president died the vice-president would …
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… intellectual framework that shaped South Africa’s 1996 constitution. In portraying rural South Africa as a Hobbesian … between John Locke’s social contract…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… functionally invoke change. The league worked to develop a constitution that would establish a concrete set of goals, … National Conferences to discuss and…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… the Freedom Charter. The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Congress of Democrats (SACOD) … also participated. The SACPO, the ANC,…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… appeal by the President and the Joint Secretaries of the SAIC against the Cape Supreme Court decision affecting the rights of the SAIC to hold meetings…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) took place. This was followed by the Congress of the … forces of the 1950s composed of the…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… basis for land restitution is provided by the 1993 Interim Constitution, section 25(7) of the 1996 Constitution and the Restitution of Land Rights Act. The…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… transition to democracy. Two months later, the Interim Constitution under which South Africa was to be governed … The IEC was established in terms of the…
ArchiveCHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… The National Action Council (successor to the ANC/SAIC Joint Planning Council) reported a ‘disquieting lull …
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… Indian Opinion 41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906 42. Petition from Indians at the …
ArchiveBear This Apartheid/Hate Structure
… of yet another useless apartheid structure? If you vote SAIC you will have to bear this apartheid /hate structure! …