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ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… in South Africa's interim Constitution. In the 1961 election only Helen Suzman kept her seat in Parliament for … formed the Independent Movement to fight the…
ArticleState of the Nation Addresses
… Africa. It is normally an annual event but in national election years there is one before the election and then one after. The SONA marks the opening of …
ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… Monument. Until the National Party seized power in 1948, this day was observed as Dingane's Day . After 1948 the National Party government set about…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… for victims injured after a heavy crackdown by the police. 1948 Govan Mbeki and Ma Mofokeng have their fourth child … 1999 3 June, Thabo Mbeki issues a…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… to early in the twentieth century. The main parties in the election were products of political formations that were … see INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… the format that the All African Convention uses for the election of its leadership. 1943 June, I. B. Tabata issues a … that he run for parliament only to…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… CONGRESS (BACK TO TOP) CAPE TOWN AGREEMENT (BACK TO TOP) ELECTION MANIFESTOES Open Letter to the Indian Community … (Anti-Segregation Council) Leaflet of the…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… the country. The Afrikaner National Party won the 1948 general election under the slogan apartheid, meaning separateness. …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… the Sedition Trial of 1946 that lasted two years. In the 1948 elections, the National Party seized power and began to … Jabavu criticises the format that the…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Hertzog tendency. In 1953 the NP fought its first general election after its 1948 victory. OPSA switched its support from Hertzog to DF … a daily. Volksblad…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government, serving as Secretary General of the ANCYL from 1948. By the time the Defiance Campaign began, Mandela was … of the negotiations in mid-1990 to…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… represented the majority of Jews in Palestine form 1920 to 1948. [14] Irgun - This was a Jewish armed group led by … saw the destruction of Palestinian…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… NP, that enforced segregation throughout South Africa in 1948 – and the social injustices that South Africans had to … In 1994, Mbete and other women ran for…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… both locally and internationally. It was the first election in which all South Africans, registered on a common voters roll, could vote. The election took…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… an actual passbook, click here . Before apartheid began in 1948 there were cases of women fighting racial oppression in … years for the ANC Women's League …
ArticleZulu Family History
… September 1968), son of Solomon kaDinuzulu, king from 1948 to 1968. Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu (b. 14 July 1948), son of Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… an increasingly racist government. In elections held in 1948, the National Party seized power and set in motion plans … began the passive resistance campaign…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… a leading advocate of the Africanist thinking in the ANC. 1948 August, Godfrey Pitje, a lecturer in the Department of … The Nationalist Party (NP) wins a…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… Show is held on the grounds of Hoerskool Nelspruit. 1948 The National Party win the general election and begin to institute apartheid policies. 1950 … Kabasa…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… retired from politics completely. ● ANC Women’s League In 1948, Nontsikelelo Albertina joined the newly formed ANC … Sisulu was nominated to stand for…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … against Apartheid was launched in…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… affairs, reported two months before the 1938 General Election that the United Party was still "a coalition rather … Government's position has been so…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… the United Party received a greater share of the votes in 1948, the HNP (with the assistance of the Afrikaner Party) … prime minister and state president in…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… support. 4 March, Natal’s Indians were to hold the annual election of the NIC, where they hoped to boot out the … People (NAACP), and Progressive Citizens of…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… and English colonisers. Following its victory in the 1948 elections, the National Party (NP) dominated all White … Dutch and English colonisers. Following…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… 1907-1914 Indian passive resistance in South Africa, 1946-1948 Defiance Campaign 1952 The Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… in Kenya. 1961 February – KANU wins the first general election under the new constitutional dispensation, taking 16 … is re-elected as President in Kenya's…
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
… No House, No Vote’ campaign against the 2006 municipal election in Durban. The campaign began with a march to Durban … political party forgets about our…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… between National Party which ruled South Africa since 1948 to 1989 and African National Congress (ANC) which was … Africans saw their first one-person…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 8 January 1972 1973 " Black Reaction to Apartheid: 1948-1973 ". Address by Oliver Tambo to the Annual Meeting of …