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EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… South African constitution to create a new structure of Parliament. The new Tricameral Parliament would consist of three Parliamentary chambers: The … (21…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… Cape elite, and from 1854 the first Speaker of the Cape Parliament. Brand Snr studied at Leiden University and wrote … In 1854 he was elected the MP for…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… prolonged parliamentary session lasting 127 days, the new tricameral constitution was passed by 119 to 35 votes on 31 … South Africa Act, which made…
EventAmichand Rajbansi threatens non-cooperation with the James Commission
… allegations of corruption and maladministration in the Tricameral Parliament chamber, the House of Delegates. Rajbansi accused …
BiographyDavid Dabede Mabuza
… a position he has held until today. He was a member of Parliament from 2001 to 2004. Mabuza has been very involved …
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… elections in April 1994, Jordan was sworn in as Member of Parliament and Minister of Posts, Telecommunications and …
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi Naidoo
… Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament CHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… of apartheid. From 1962 until Suzman’s retirement from Parliament in 1989, Menell was largely responsible for the …
ArchiveUDF Campaign Manual - Section B: "How We Are Struggling - The Methods"
… targeting the August 22, 1984 elections for the new Tricameral Parliament ("Coloured" and "Indian" chambers). Training … targeting the August 22, 1984…
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… the CRC was completely subordinate to the South African parliament, and therefore had no actual political power. By … voters' roll to elect 60 Coloured…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… introduces a constitutional amendment which creadted its Tricameral Parliament , which included separate chambers for Whites, … township, near Cape Town to…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… of Alexandra into Johannesburg with members of parliament. This was deemed an act of treason by the …
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
… stood as an ANC candidate and was appointed as a Member of Parliament. In May he became Minister of Trade, Industry and …
BiographyBob Hepple
… , was a trade unionist and Labour Party member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund …
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… activist Mewa Ramgobin and served as an ANC member of Parliament from 1994 to 2004. …
Indian South Africans timeline 1980-1989
… as well. He was detained in August 1984, just before the Tricameral elections, with Archie Gumede , Mewa Ramgobin , …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… daughters, Zindzi and Zenani. In 1974, the all-white Parliament of South Africa appointed a Commission to secretly … her father. When Helen Suzman, an…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… the Metropolitan Handicap at Kenilworth, the opening of Parliament and the Nederberg Wine Auction, diplomatic events …
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
… and Transkei. Until recently he was a Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Portfolio Committee for Arts, … Congress, Commander in uMkhonto weSizwe and…
BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
… Party Senator for Western Australia in the Federal Parliament. In 1968 Curtis and Horst Kleinschmidt who became …
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
… had been placed under house arrest by a unique Act of Parliament (the so-called “ Sobukwe Clause ”). Kotze had the …
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… party until, after the 1999 elections, he lost his seat in Parliament. His growing disaffection with the party was … UN, founder member of SANROC, exiled…
BiographyCheryl Carolus
… Project at UWC. In 1994, she declined to stand for Parliament and in December that year was elected deputy …
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… representation to Indians through white members of parliament. Several times during the campaign his actions led …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… some representation to sections of the Black population in parliament through a Tricameral Constitution. The ANC was strongly opposed to this …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… pamphleteering and extensive campaigns to boycott the Tricameral Parliament, municipal elections and education. They also …
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… to have their political rights recognized. By the 1980s, a Tricameral Parliament was created, in which "Coloureds" were granted the …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… and Adult Education. In 1996 he joined the staff of Parliament of South Africa working closely with Speaker Dr … (and protocol) managing all heads of state…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… to have their political rights recognized. By the 1980s, a Tricameral Parliament was created, in which "Coloureds" were granted the …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… group that was initially formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid …