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EventGabon gains independence from France
… the 1990s Gabon introduced a multiparty system and a new constitution that allowed for a more transparent electoral …
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… thousand of them voted yes on the Turnhalle draft constitution in May 1977, with almost 95 percent of them …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… The ANC recognised that even after the adoption of a new constitution, there may still be a need for establishing a …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… save a suspected informer from a murderous mob. When a new constitution was proposed for South Africa in 1983 to defend …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… times at Robben Island. When Nelson Mandela signed the new constitution in 1996, Suzman was along side him. In the …
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… home. He had failed to uphold, defend and respect the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, the country’s … ordered by the public protector was…
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… III, became king in 1986 at the age of 18. Swaziland’s new constitution came into force in 2006 and includes a bill of rights. But these rights are limited…
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April … courage, charm and commitment to…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… Convention to draw up a new non-racial and democratic Constitution for South Africa. The Conference Resolution … Convention of all South Africans to draw up…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… badly off. Their grievances could be rectified under their constitution. But this wave of ill-feeling was spreading from … to liberalise their institutions,…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… until it was reaffirmed in the Bill of Rights of the SA Constitution of 1996 . Cape suburbia displayed a 'mixed' … in Courville St, Gardens. District Five…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… ensured that the rights of workers are protected in our Constitution and many progressive laws. Chief amongst these … form and belong to trade unions which…
Speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Oliver Tambo Institute of Leadership, 17 July 2008, Kawaweta, Uganda
… to change to ensure that once the country had adopted a Constitution, the army, police and other security … had to play a constructive role as protectors of…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… Period. Negotiations. International Policy. The ANC`s Constitution. Umkhonto weSizwe. Building the ANC as an Organisation. The ANC adopted its new…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Wiechers and Ismail Mahomed, a drafter of the Namibian constitution following the Turnhalle talks. He was a natural leader in South Africa's constitution…
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
… election of a Constituent Assembly, which would drew up a constitution. On 21 March 1990 the country gained …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… September 1909 and it came into force on 31 May 1910. The constitution in its final form had some federal traits in the …
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… In terms of section 248 (1) of the Interim 1994 Constitution, and acting on the advice of the Transitional …
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… between various political parties for a new democratic constitution took place), the 'Battle of Ventersdorp', and …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… parties, and relaxed the Group Areas Act. In 1984, a new constitution was enacted which provided for a Tricameral … by de Klerk and Mandela, began efforts to…
PlaceMauritania
… Independent on November 28, 1960. By the terms of the constitution, Islam is the official state religion, but the …
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… objective, which is the drafting and adoption of the new Constitution for South Africa by democratically elected …
EventRichard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA, is born
… tasked with assisting in the drafting of the South African Constitution, which was adopted in 1996. From August 1994 to …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… of the Black population in parliament through a Tricameral Constitution. The ANC was strongly opposed to this step, …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… on Gender Equality, a statutory body created by the constitution. The three groups' application against the law …
EventThe consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free
… the government's willingness to defend the South African constitution and media freedom, thereby avoiding the …
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
… non-racialism and non-sexism, the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. The Bill of Rights in our Constitution enshrines the rights of all and…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… CODESA, the land question was not resolved. The new Constitution which came as a result of the CODESA agreements, … and willing buyer principle. My own…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… both the separation of powers that is entrenched in our Constitution, relating to the legislature, the executive and … Justice, we draw inspiration from the…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… establish branches at the various campuses and to draft a constitution. From the outset, its leaders were involved in …