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ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… of Africans, Coloured and Indians from the new Union constitution, forced the new urban European educated and …
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
… Local government elections in KwaZulu/Natal (26th). Final constitution approved by the constitutional court and signed …
Introduction
… Local government elections in KwaZulu/Natal (26th). Final constitution approved by the constitutional court and signed …
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South … and marked the way for a new democratic order…
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). From this date planned acts of defiance of unjust laws …
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… Secretary General of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) had been replaced as President of the Natal Indian …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… failed to secure the two-thirds majority required by the constitution to abolish the voting rights. Secondly when the … 1956. It was repealed by the Republic…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… local branches, which were officially sanctioned by their constitution. Gradually, people set up numerous grassroots … protests of various organisations in…
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… South Africa’s Constitution - admired and respected around the world for its … under apartheid into a modern and peaceful democracy. The Constitution is…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
The shards of South Africa’s fragmented history share a common thread throughout; at the core is a struggle for equality and visibility. Over the course of the…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… forms of labour . 23 March, The executives of the ANC, SAIC, SACTU , CPC and CoD meet in Tongaat. A National Action …
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… opposition to the introduction of the tri-cameral Constitution, which was put to a referendum in which only …
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… will be responding, because in the end the drafting of the constitution must not be the preserve of the 490 members of this Assembly. It must be a…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would … population and enfranchise the Indian…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… two British colonies of Natal and the Cape Province, the constitution explicitly excluded Blacks from participating in … of this objective was the passing of…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of the 'new constitution' (1,300,000). These whites who did not vote obviously see nothing better or worse In the …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… in the 1980s, he became the Vice-President of the Anti-SAIC Committee, as well as a vice president of the UDF’s … activists managed to displace BC leaders…
Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
… of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 SAIC in Court The refusal of the President and the Joint …
From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]
… Certification of the Amended Text of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 CCT 37/96 … of the Constitutional Assembly: in re Certification of…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… was a dire need for law reform, which began when the new Constitution came into effect in 1996. In terms of section 15(3) of the Constitution of the Republic…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… the process of public participation in drawing up our new Constitution. COSATU, with membership approaching the two … people and the poor who want to ensure…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… an exercise would in fact result in the destruction of the SAIC through mass rejection by the people, the Botha regime … being able to breathe life into the…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
… hearing, the NDC referred extensively to the ANC Constitution; the aims, objectives and character of the ANC; … and to fully familiarise themselves with the…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… has convened to adopt important amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 1993. The … concerns have not been accommodated in the…
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
… by posing and answering the question – what does our Constitution prescribe in terms of how South Africa should be … to the Constitutional prescripts? The…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… president. This was a newly created position after the new constitution came into force in 1984. The constitution further created three houses of parliament,…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… this extent threatened to veto agreement on a transitional constitution until political violence had been 'solved … would be responsible for the negoÂ…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… the coloured people’s right to vote was entrenched in the constitution of the Union. The NP required two thirds … as the COD, ANC, SACTU and South African…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… declared itself willing to co-operate with the ANC and SAIC to bring about political change. Women and rural …