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ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… is that it was the only party to reject the South African Constitution — on the basis that it enshrined the right to … Convention Formed in 2007 when leader…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… universal political franchise ultimately resulted in a new constitution and general election in 1954 and saw an …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… to devise and implement a system that would, within the Constitution and the rule of law, re-allocate fishing quotas …
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… oversight over the implementation of South Africa’s new constitution, adopted in 1996 and was elected to the SACP's …
ArticleNational and Provincial Elections - 2024 - South Africa
… (IFP), Good Party, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), Freedom Front Plus (FF+), United Democratic Movement …
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 … of the public to be declared unlawful…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… (LPSA). Duncan later joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Patrick Duncan (left) and Alfred Hutchinson (right) … through the OAU Liberation Committee…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… of South Africa. • To Consider, amend, and adopt, the Constitution and Rules for the Society, Union or Congress. … Treasurer-General. A committee was…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned and forced underground, and although the … the wrath of the state. The crackdown forced…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… African National Congress(ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress(PAC), the Soweto unrest in June 1976 provided a golden … the case of the ANC, but there is also…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… of South Africa in 1910. With the adoption of the Union Constitution Act of 1910 the two dominant white political … 1950 the Nationalist Party headed by DF…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… press union, Solidarity News Service, Medu, and the ANC Constitution Committee, Klug inserted himself into the … United States, Bay Area Anti-Apartheid…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… stand on constitutional reform, calling for: an entrenched Constitution incorporating a Bill of Rights an independent judiciary a federal Constitution in…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… was passed after Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom revised the Constitution of the Appeal Court and enlarged it with the … the Sharpeville massacre led by the Pan…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… can learn about the basic human rights instilled in the Constitution and relate them to their own circumstances. … way process. They cannot be expected to…
ArticleA White Referendum
… held a referendum to gauge White opinion on the new constitution and tricameral parliament – it baulked at … prove disastrous for business and the economy…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… a “fast unto death” to protest the newly proposed Indian constitution. It granted separate electorates to Hindus, … because it would write caste…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… (ANC) establish the African Students' Association (ASA), PAC sympathising students form the African Students' Union of … women and children are killed and…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… remains a teacher. Black Sash, the Women's Defence of the Constitution League, is formed. Patricia Jobodwana becomes … receives the Dag Hammerskjold Peace…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… abolishing child labour and other working conditions. The ‘Constitution’ campaign was also aimed at influencing the amendment to the Constitution of the…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… of South Africa. The Act, which served as the Union's constitution until 1961, created a parliamentary government … of South Africa, an independent body…
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… intellectual framework that shaped South Africa’s 1996 constitution. In portraying rural South Africa as a Hobbesian … between John Locke’s social contract…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… functionally invoke change. The league worked to develop a constitution that would establish a concrete set of goals, … National Conferences to discuss and…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… basis for land restitution is provided by the 1993 Interim Constitution, section 25(7) of the 1996 Constitution and the Restitution of Land Rights Act. The…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Brighton, PE Mzimkhulu Sogawayi Former prisoner, possibly PAC Shot dead after having received death threats. 1 December … Ribeiro Former detainee, Activist…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… was passed after Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom revised the Constitution of the Appeal Court and enlarged it with the … the Sharpeville massacre led by the Pan…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… in 1966) the Kiambu Mafia became worried: according to the constitution when the president died the vice-president would …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… (OAU) Liberation Committee demanded that the ANC and the PAC forge a united front. The ANC felt that unity with a fragmented PAC would be counterproductive…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…