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The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… For Indian and “Coloured” people, the low turn-out on election day was an important indication of political … test of community response to the new…
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
In 1904, after the outbreak of Bubonic Plague, near present day Newtown, the African population in the Area was moved to the Farm; 'Klipspruit', twelve Miles…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… the enemy on SouthAfrican soil. "WE ARE AT WAR" says the leaflet of the African NationalCongress which was widely …
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… is independent from the rest of government. After an election Parliament and the Cabinet can change, but the …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… of Parliament were only to come much later. The 1943 election In the early 1940s different political orientations … over rival factions, at the time of the…
Voters may act if ANC fails to uproot patronage by Steven Friedman (BDlive), 10 August 2016
… and it is sure to remain the largest party after the next election. The key story of this election is that it is the first since 1994 in which ANC … a…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… be sure that nobody would suffer the slightest scratch. In reply to that our people were killed, imprisoned, and …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Glossary
… The act of giving a person the right to vote in an election. Disenfranchisement means to take away the right to …
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… letter dated 28 July sent by General Smuts to Mr. Nehru in reply to the latter's letter of 30 May about the resumption … governments under such circumstances…
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… 1989, the majority of South Africans witnessed the election of a national government in which it had no say; this was to be the last all-white election in…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… congratulates Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on his election victory despite widespread reports of intimidation, … opportunities. Zuma congratulates…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… not voice any criticism in this regard until I have to reply to the debate. The question one has to ask oneself, … of this discontent in these territories?"…
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… necessary reforms paving a way for a multiparty democratic election to be held in April 1994. Inkatha had initially … of rendering an effective and…
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… Congress’ Women’s League (ANCWL) on 8 December 1993. The election came just a year after she resigned from all ANC … within the ANC, securing 5th place in…
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
… as a stranger and foreigner, and not to be able to reply. The atmosphere of nihilism and rage directed at us as …
12. The pickled money-order receipt
… from you. I have shown him the receipt enclosed to you. Reply me soon without further delay. …
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… the format that the All African Convention uses for the election of its leadership. 1943 June, I. B. Tabata issues a … that he run for parliament only to…
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,…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… Lesotho as protests against the outcome of the 23 May 1998 election results intensified. The protests were organized by … King Lestie, demanding him to use…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… As the strike occurred on the eve of the general election of 1923, it became of the causes of the defeat of the Smuts government in that election. There is…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… of Parliament. By the time the first democratic election took place on April 27 1994, Sindiso was the only …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… have emerged in South African history. In the wake of the election of the National Party and the advance of their … document The Bill of Rights. Until the…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… held to see the amount of support for the reforms. The election for the House of Representatives (coloured) was … the police brutally attacked those…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… Baré Maïnassara organized and won a flawed presidential election in July 1996. Baré's party, Union Nationale des … 90% of parliament seats in a similarly…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… casts his vote for South Africa’s first democratic election at Trafalgar Square in London. 1995 Huddleston …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… Vereeniging.This came two years after the first democratic election (1994) of the President of the Republic of South …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… was expected to make great strides in the coming general election of 1915. The outbreak of war in August 1914, …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… was not a stronghold of the ANC. For instance, after his election in 1984, Sonto helped mobilize support among the …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… The Conference insists on various conditions before an election and a single-chambered Constitutional Assembly … demands: that there be an immediate…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… already heightened political tensions, and so close to the election, was perceived as a very real threat to the election process. …