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EventProgressive Reform Party is formed
… The party secured eleven seats in the 171-member House of Assembly. …
EventNelson Mandela says general strike will go ahead
… government and free and fair elections to a constituent assembly. Source: South African History Online …
EventBotswana gains independence from Britain
… Seretse Khama. Khama was elected president by the National Assembly in 1966 and then reelected for two additional terms, …
EventInternational Day of Families.
… Families was proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993, as a day to provide an opportunity to …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… to the establishment of a Select Committee of the House of Assembly to look into the acquisition of property in … 1 May, A Select Committee is established by…
EventPrime Minister Smuts set to replace Pegging Act
… be entitled to elect three White Europeans to the House of Assembly, two Whites to the Senate, and three members to the …
EventCape Supreme Court sets aside 1973 Ciskei election of Lennox Sebe on the grounds of irregularities
… Sebe and three other members of the Ciskei Legislative Assembly on the grounds of irregularities at the capital, …
EventRamaphosa announces his decision to leave parliament
… National Congress (ANC) and chairman of the Constitutional Assembly, announced his intention to resign from Parliament …
EventParamount Chief, Botha Sigcau is appointed the first President of Transkei
… of Transkei at the opening session of the Transkei Assembly. Kaizer Matanzima became the Prime Minister as …
EventApartheid minister of Law and Order opposes White radicalism in the South African police force
… of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, announced in the House of Assembly that no member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… into this category. Results of the 1994 elections National Assembly results Party % Votes No votes Seats African …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Unity (OAU). The organization agreed to have an annual assembly of heads of state, a council of ministers, a general …
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a constitutional assembly to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary …
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… Committee on Apartheid, which was set up by the General Assembly under resolution 1761 (XVll), released its second …
EventInternational Day of Peace Vigil is observed
… After the United Nations General-Assembly resolution 55/282 of 2001, beginning 2002, 21 …
EventOscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born
… the KwaZulu cabinet and the KwaZulu legislative assembly. He subsequently resigned from Inkatha to form the …
EventMoses Madiba dies in Seshego, Limpopo
… Sotho and was deputy chairman of the Lebowa Legislative Assembly. …
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… phase would begin with the election of the constituent assembly, substituting the current tricameral parliament from …
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… of the flexible approach that the Constitutional Assembly adopted. The establishment of subcommittees proved … of 1995, but this was not possible, for the…
EventCiskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted independence
… Black homeland to be granted independence. The National Assembly, consisting of both elected members and thirty-seven …
EventJailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi
… Buthelezi read the telegram to KwaZulu -Natal legislative Assembly, which advised him to consider asking for …
ArchiveRenewed fighting in April
… the guerillas' withdrawal to Angola through Untag assembly points. …
EventEuropean Community lifts sanctions against SA
… Council and Nelson Mandela's call to the UN General Assembly to lift all sanctions with the exception of oil and …
EventMinister of Police and Prisons announces that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained
… Minister of Police and Prisons, stated in the House of Assembly that twenty-one trade unionists have been detained …
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government’s announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
… Piet Koornhof made his speech to the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly. … dissolving the forty-two-member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly’ , [online], available at…
EventThe Transkei Constitution Act is enacted
… in December 1962. The Act provided for a legislative assembly to exercise control over finance, justice, interior, …
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… interim government within six months and to a constituent assembly before the end of the year. The organization argued … then be an elected body which could…
Cable to the United Nations, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 25, 1948
… peoples of Union of South Africa who are unrepresented in Assembly to circulate this cablegram to all members so that … wrong impression may be corrected…
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… River Sovereignty in 1854, the Republic's Legislative Assembly provisionally met, in a humble thatched Hall in St … taken over by two chambers, a Council and…
PlaceWelcome Cottage, Glencairn- Simonstown
… son Christoffel was the first speaker of the Cape House of Assembly; his grandson Johannes was elected President of the …