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BiographyLouis Botha
… at the Wanderers, Johannesburg, to oppose the Lyttelton Constitution. Here, they protested against Chinese labour, … deliberations of the National Convention…
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… African workers in protest of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act of 1961. This incitement was seen as an …
EventMahamane Ousmane is overthrown
… state-run radio station that Ousmane was under arrest, the constitution suspended, and that the temporary national …
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… proposed that there be a general election should the constitution not be completed within three years. (The ANC … containing comprehensive amendments to the…
ArchiveUDF Unites To Expose What Underlies Reform
… to unite a broad range of organisations against the new constitution and Koornhof Bills. Since the launch of UDF, …
Speak - the voice of the community
… in mass meetings to reject the proposed Government constitution was documented in detail. …
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… negotiations between the French and the Neo-Destour (“New Constitution”) party, which was backed by the trade unions. …
EventRamaphosa announces his decision to leave parliament
… his intention to resign from Parliament once the final Constitution is agreed upon. He will become deputy executive …
ArchiveFederation or desolution
… that South Africa should move towards forming a federal constitution and that the" Verwoerdian Utopia has fallen to …
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… South Africans, to draw up a new non-racial and democratic Constitution. Such a convention would discuss our national … and the all white Parliament is…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… a Secretariat, a report from the Lenin School, the Party Constitution, reports from regions and districts, trade …
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… February 1969, during its fifteenth Annual Conference the constitution was altered in such a way as to debar Africans …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Alliance, decided to plan a convention and draft a new constitution for South Africa. On 26 June 1955, a meeting was …
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 2: Aug. 22 elections and you
… and is seen as the only method of rejecting the new constitution. And in doing so, the pamphlet claims that the …
EventANC leads march through central Durban
… Zwelithini further told his subjects that the interim constitution would deny the Zulu nation its claim to …
Domestic work
… a heterogeneous population will simply disappear. Any new constitution which disregards this reality will be … task is directed at the balanced protection in…
EventAgreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached
… Gqozo later issued a decree amending the homeland's constitution to allow sovereignty to be relinquished. …
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… no longer the country it was when we adopted the Interim Constitution in 1993, when, together, we resolved to overcome … journey is the TRC of all of us. It…
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Geneva, 19 May 1998
… happen again. We therefore elected to be governed by a constitution that protected all in equal measure. If our constitution was blind to the reality of…
ArchiveGuaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
… a bill of rights for South Africa; and drawing up a constitution that fully acknowledges the minority groups of …
EventSeparate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968 is enacted
… found Repealed by s 101(1) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110 of 1983. …
EventMandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks
… was at the time beginning to chart a way forward on a new constitution for the country. Mandela accused President F. W. …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… The International, October 1 1915. Document 9: Provincial Constitution of the International Socialist League published … to the Executive of the Third…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
… will spell disaster for the economy. In terms of the constitution, "an act of parliament must provide for a … considered to be in line with the letter and…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, declares a state of emergency
… yield to their demands without amendments to the colony's constitution, including a graduated extension of the …
EventOubangi-Shari achieves independence as the Central African Republic
… coup by Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly. On 23 March …
EventSouth African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly
… in office. His speech came a year after Transkei Constitution Act created a Legislative Assembly, based in …
EventThe Kingdom of Ashanti is formally annexed by Great Britain
… Tutu together with his chief priest, Ashanti changed the constitution and the symbols of office in order to expand the …
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… were passed and sent to the proper quarters. A provisional constitution for the creation of a South African Indian … for the more serious and important work…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… sexual freedom as a fundamental human right in the new constitution. In 1996, South Africa's new Constitution made discrimination based on sexual orientation…