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ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… Center as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). By September 1992, Mandela and de Klerk reached a …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… was immediate: 'In the first week of May, South African negotiators travelled to London for the first of several …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Krotoa , Autshomao and Doman , thereby became significant negotiators. [47] From 1658, the incoming slaves imported …
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic transformation in southern Africa…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
A. The Mineral Revolution ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold Rush. We will also discuss how…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… be followed by Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) I and II. However, the course of negotiations is not … when women participated in the…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an overview of the history of the power utility over its first seventy-eight years…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… in 1990 with the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), an all-party convention that only became possible …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… negotiations, Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), as a delegate for the SACP. A SACP delegation, …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… plans that we were developing at a technical group of CODESA (a sub-committee of the forum negotiating the new …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… weeks of discussion. For instance, in the debates at CODESA, the institution established after 1990 to negotiate …