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EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… scale to participation by Indians and Coloureds in the new Constitution. In 1983, the National Party (NP) Government introduced an amendment to the South…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… Citizenship Act) No 26 of 1970 was repealed by the Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of …
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… laid the foundation for the democratic South African Constitution. Comrades, Compatriots, Friends, The apartheid … As said earlier, it formed the basis of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Reconciliation, 2003 Ebrahim, Hassen, Soul of a Nation – Constitution-making in South Africa . Cape Town, Oxford … Maharaj, July 2002 Republic of South…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… a united South Africa, could draft and adopt a democratic constitution. Delegates committed themselves to convene an … participation, general constitutional…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… on the inhabitants of the territories, the 1946 French constitution provided for decentralization of power and … some of Niger's laws and policies, and…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… conformity with the democratic principles embodied in the constitution. (D) All organs of government, including … and dedicated to defending the principles…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… stand on constitutional reform, calling for an entrenched Constitution incorporating a Bill of Rights, for an independent judiciary and for a federal…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… economic sanctions. The 1983 amendments to the existing constitution were also resisted. Government intransigence and … opposition to the regime, in 1983,…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… The immediate task of the UDF was to oppose PW Botha’s new constitution, passed in 1983, and his plans for a Tricameral … argued that the low turnout did not…
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/NATIONAL PARTY TAKING NOTE of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 200 of 1993 … to Constitutional Principle XXXIV,…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… to God The Almighty and then he said: In South Africa's Constitution the Sovereignty of God in the destiny of our … of Africans. We must watch the outcome…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… effort to make reforms by introducing the tricameral constitution: three parliaments were set up, one each for … was to fight for the upliftment of women and…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… that faces South Africa today is that of a Democratic Constitution, it is to that challenge that I shall address my … the founding of the ANC we have fought…
Chapter 3
… the Executive Committee was instructed to prepare a draft constitution. At this time the following were the … Two days later (1st July) the Executive…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… citizens’ rights are protected by the new South African constitution based on human rights. However, even though …
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… of implementing the provisions of its new apartheid constitution. The friend and instrument of the bloodthirsty … for their overwhelming rejection of Botha`s…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… of implementing the provisions of its new apartheid constitution. The friend and instrument of the bloodthirsty … for their overwhelming rejection of Botha's…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… The new constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 … new, and was in fact as old as South Africa itself. The Constitution was not a…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… of power to the people. This requires that a democratic constitution should be adopted, based on the principle of one … regime, which functions on the basis…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… principles find the modalities for drawing up the constitution through an elected Constituent Assembly realise … political activity General constitutional…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… more daunting challenge, that of crafting a democratic constitution. Ever since the foundation of the African National Congress, we have fought for a…
ArchiveFoundations of government in a democratic South Africa
… Paper listing the objectives of a new constitution and its principles. …
ArchiveAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern
… Draft Constitution of the African People's Democratic Union of …
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… gay rights group. During the drafting of South Africa’s constitution, Ditsie was at the forefront of arguing for … on the basis of sexual orientation - the…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… were later unbanned on 2 February 1990, and a non-racial constitution was eventually agreed upon and adopted in 1993. … inequality and the promotion of the…
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…
ArchiveQuote from Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa 2007
… of the Titanic. Zimbabwe flag. Call for a new democratic constitution. …
ArchiveGeneral administration of the Black Peoples Convention
… of the Black Peoples Convention document that includes the Constitution and general administrative guidelines …