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EventPaul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid
… for the ZAR from Britain in 1884, at the London Convention. … Hundred years: a history of South Africa ; 3rd rev. ed. Pretoria: Academica. p. 279. …
EventThe Conservative Party decides on talks with National Party and expel a member
… Van der Merwe advocated immediate participation in the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), and was …
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… (ANC) announced its constitutional proposals during the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. The …
EventMandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks
… decided to suspend his party's participation in the Convention for Democratic South Africa (Codesa) . Codesa was …
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… plan for August. The resolution was adopted after the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiations …
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… to 3 February for the African Leprosy Congress. The convention was coordinated by Wits University to discuss …
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… his debut in politics when he attended the All-African Convention in Bloemfontein in mid-1936. … (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography , v.2 ,…
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
… This was followed by the first plenary session of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), which …
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… was the first meeting place of the South African National Convention, which took place in a hall to the left of the …
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… African Students' Organisation (SASO), the Black People's Convention (BPC), the Black Community Programme (BCP), the …
Chapter 9
… the role of passivity to that of active leadership, the Convention was in a position to carry its new policy to the … The reaction of the people was a…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… [1943] Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. … Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… as prisoners of war under the protection of the Geneva Convention. A few weeks before the event at Wonderboom police … Defence Force (SADF) Military…
EventProgressive Federal Party is formed
… and the negotiation of a new constitution at a national convention. Liberal, mainly English speaking Whites, were …
EventMulti-party delegates endorses the Interim constitution
… Delegates at the multiparty Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiation …
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the …
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black Peoples' Convention (BPC) and other liberation movements. There is …
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… of Emergency. The Groote Schuur talks were followed by the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) in 1991 and …
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… made servants. Part of the South African Native Convention’s Appeal: “...any law which compels women to carry … and other issues. The newly formed South…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… established 29 branches all over Natal and scheduled a convention for the official launch. The venue and date were … African Students Organisation (SASO) and…
Education for Service
… Government, coming together at this first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), mindful of … shall be entitled to put forward…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… politician and National Party (NP) negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) is born. …
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… trial of nine student leaders from the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African Students' Organisation … and six for five years. The next day…
EventMandela suspends talks in the wake of Boipatong Massacre
… to stop the violence and decided to withdraw from the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). The …
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… became a republic in 1960. Nkrumah was a founder of the Convention People’s Party. Nkrumah experienced several …
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… rally, leading to the arrest of most Black People’s Convention (BPC) and SASO leaders, including Myeza. Myeza …
Chapter 6
… Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all the forces ranged … disruption they could maim but not completely destroy the…
PlaceUbuhlebezwe Municipality (previously Sisonke District Municipality), Highflats
Ubuhlebezwe Municipality is a local Municipality within the Harry Gwala District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Ubuhlebezwe is an isiZulu word…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… negotiations on South Africa's future constitution, a Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) . Its …
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the first Management Committee Chairman process of CODESA (Convention on a Democratic South Africa). …