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The appointment of Judges
… that have had a profound impact on the law in South Africa. Some of them, and the themes they have tackled, are: … Kaunda & Others v The President of the…
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… discussion was the way they were being treated at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa), a body set to discuss a new constitution for South…
ANC statement on the state of readiness for celebrations of 101 year celebration of the ANC, 9 January 2013
… ANC members and supporters from accross the country from all sectors of society including business, religious and … 6th of January 2013 at Inkosi Albert…
BiographyElliot Shabangu
… days after the second trial began the judge acquitted all detainees because the charges in their indictment were … Education Trust (ed.) The Road to…
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
… police, escorted by several vanloads of armed police. Like all the other banishment orders, it simply stated that his …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… of the pylon”. Source: Times Media Collection, Museum Africa. The period 1967 to 1976 marked the beginning of a new … was established in Tanzania in 1965 to…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… their house. On 23 March, 1984 the local magistrate banned all CRADORA and CRADOYA meetings, This sparked a riot as the … the Minister of Law and Order,…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… Mandela is considered by many to be the father of South Africa. Mandela was an anti-Apartheid activist, which means … Apartheid was a system of racial…
Independent Electoral Commission
… Residents of Soweto queue up to cast their votes in South Africa's third democratic elections April 2004 VISION … is the impartial management of free and…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… book, Soul of a Nation – Constitution-making in South Africa , Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1998. The … 1910. That constitution was drafted by an…
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… set February 1993 as deadline for the resumption of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. The ANC rejected De Klerk's proposals …
BiographyMuziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba
… and the spiralling crime rate in post-apartheid South Africa. The strong tendency to narrative in his art is rooted …
BiographyElliot Tonjeni
… Cape Town, where he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and was active in the Industrial and … Member of the Communist Party of South Africa …
BiographyBenedict Wallet Vilakazi
… year. He held the BA degree of the University of South Africa and was a prize winner of the International Institute …
BiographyAidan Walsh
… represented in public and private art collections in South Africa, United Kingdom, New Zealand, France, India and …
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
… the aftermath of the Durban riots. In 1951 he left South Africa and worked for several years for Radio Budapest, later … A documentary History of African…
BiographyLeoni Marinovich
… (2001), and co-produced two inserts for CNN Inside Africa (2001). Her visualisation skills enliven the films she …
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… churchwomen across the denominations and throughout South Africa were becoming active in distinctive, often uniformed, … oldest, largest and most enduring…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… refused to participate in Congress for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) because its demand for a Volkstaat had not … Terre'Blanche to complain that an…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… Apartheid in 1971 1 The system of white supremacy in South Africa is applied in the field of sport as much as in all other walks of life. In other societies…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… (SACPO) was formed in 1953 at a Coloured People's Convention in Cape Town. The organisation aimed to unite … of Good Hope and it was repeated in other parts…
BiographyDurant Basi Sihlali
… representing realities of urban life for blacks in South Africa. Sihlali shared this approach with other artists such … at his Soweto home, he exhibited work…
BiographyShirley Gunn
… her in doing underground work while she was still in South Africa. As result of her anti-apartheid activity she was … training camp north east of Luanda. She…
BiographyDavid Sibeko
… he was acquitted and released. Sibeko then left South Africa and joined the PAC in exile in Tanzania. Sibeko was … returned and became the PAC's chief…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… of an armed struggle occurring in certain parts of South Africa. Various types of armed resistance spread to urban … the National Party (NP) government to…
ArticleThe Constitution
… South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The Republic of South Africa is one, sovereign, … Citizenship There is a common South African…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… (part of the curriculum) New identities: Human Rights for all The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was … the UNO in 1948, the National Party came…
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… end of the war was finally reached with the signing of the Convention of Pretoria on 3 August 1881, recognising limited … Republic. The Volksraad accepted…
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
… racism, fascism and brutal exploitation in South Africa. The delegation of the African National Congress … compounded of alien rule and economic exploitation…
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
… Consciousness Movement organisations, the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African Students' Organisation … in Mozambique, so could settler…