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BiographyMadi Gray
… the National Party in South Africa, which came to power in 1948. Consequently, she was afraid that with their background …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… workers Vandeyar was formally recruited into the TIC in 1948 and participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952 . He …
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… Introduction Part A: The unfolding of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The many faces of apartheid repression 2. … of democratic elections May 1994-…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… Deputy President After South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994, Mandela chose Mbeki to be the first … in Polokwane in December 2007, Mbeki …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … against Apartheid was launched in…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the … unrest too was in…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Turning points in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) … National Party (NP) government followed up its unexpected election victory in 1948 with a…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
Stanley Mabizela was born in 1934, 7th of March in Port Elizabeth, joined the liberation struggle at an early age when he first joined the ANC Youth League…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… Reality; Portraits of women’s lives in the Western Cape 1948-1976, (Cape Town, HSRC).| Prophetic Voice of Reason, …
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… Party took control of the South African government in 1948 and officially systematized the segregation that defined … manipulative “notwithstanding that…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… commemorates the day in 1994 when the first democratic election was held in South Africa. Today, South Africa … Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa…
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… but by 1930, their political rights were restricted to the election of White representatives. The National Party victory in 1948 saw Coloureds completely…
EventMarais Steyn dies
… age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the United Party (UP) against the … to do more than keep Verwoerd busy in…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… Failure to do so resulted in immediate arrest. Between 1948 and 1986, over 17 million arrests were made under the …
BiographyAlfred Milner
… the Harrow division of Middlesex, but lost in the general election. Milner broke with the Gladstonian wing of the … since Kruger had become more autocratic…
BiographyChris Hani
… to finally set a date for South Africa's first democratic election. Walus and Derby-Lewis were captured, sentenced and …
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… international stature in the area of HIV/AIDS led to his election as Chairperson of the XIII International Conference …
BiographyJames la Guma
… In 1939 and again in 1940 la Guma stood unsuccessfully for election to the Cape Town City Council as the "Working Man's …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… defining modern day South Africa for generations. The 1910 election gave expression to the majority of white South … the forging of a racially divided…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… form the United Party (UP) in 1934. They won the general election to form the Pact Government with Hertzog continuing … Prime Minister Hertzog resigned and…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… resistance. White politics took a dramatic new turn in 1948. The National Party won the whites-only election in 1948 and began systematically to entrench its…
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… (NP), he won a seat for Ladybrand in the parliamentary election. When the fusion between the NP and South African … and became Minister of Justice when the…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… he married an English woman, Ruth Williams in September 1948, in England, without the permission of the tribal … come under the control of white Afrikaner…
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
Sipho Samuel Charles Hashe was born in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. During this period…