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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… international competition. 1980 20 May, Signs multilateral Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living … is presented with the Fucik Award…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 elections. As …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… the resumption of multilateral talks in the form of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), ensuring a …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other anti-apartheid organisations. The extreme … just a few. Some of this violence continued…
EventCODESA’s starting date is set
… on South Africa's future constitution through the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). Its' … were joined at the talks by the Pan Africanist…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… uprising, these included among others, the Black People's Convention (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Whites. AZAPO emerged from the ashes of the Black People's Convention (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… condemning the Pass laws, endorsing a call for a National Convention, and protesting against the 1962 Sabotage Act. …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… described by many as tension-driven and known as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), took place … ArchivalPlatform.org (2011). ‘Convention…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… to re-launch his political career with the 'All Africa Convention' was not very successful. Seme died in …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both of which had been banned in 1960 and were … movement increased in significance when the…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… vigil prior to their departure by bus. The Black People's Convention had decided to go ahead with the funeral …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… of the Black people in South Africa are Mandela 16 and Sobukwe. 17 One will first have to clear up and argue out the … Tolbert of Liberia. He addressed a…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Some Aspects of the Native Bills
… promises made to the Imperial Parliament by the National Convention delegates in 1909 during the passage of the Union … submission of all the Bills to an…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening Ceremony of the Second Festival of the Cultures and Civilisations of World Deserts, Dubai: 16 April 2005.
… This meeting needs to send a clear declaration to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… the independence aspirations reflected in the Turnalle Convention. Although led by a White, Dirk Mudge, the party …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… set February 1993 as deadline for the resumption of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. The … The Democratic Party (DP), the Pan…
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… revised constitutional proposals on the table during the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) discussions. …
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… shall be removed there from." ALL EYES TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION All-eyes are now turned on the African National Convention which meets in Bloemfontein in…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appears before protesters against gender- based violence in South Africa
… World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town International Convention Centre, but he had to address the crowd instead. …
EventKing Sekhukhune is defeated by the British in war
… 1 in 1881, he was freed under article 23 of the Pretoria Convention signed between Britain and the Boers, and he was …
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… Who is the longest serving political prisoner - Is it Sobukwe or Mandela?. - The other thing is the Sharpeville … you talk of they will tell you that it was…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… writing there is being held in Bloemfontein an All African Convention to which all political organisations that have … attending. There is a movement a foot…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other … well as the government (many others…
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
… by the actual launch at 15h00, at the Mitta Seperepere Convention Centre. The Speakers at all these programs will be …
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 …
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… Republiek after the signing of the Pretoria Convention on 3 August 1881) for the first time. He won the …
PlaceBaavianskloof Pass
This spectacular Kloof (which is part of the R332 route) links the Western section of the Baavianskloof with the higher Karoo hinterland, and more specifically…
PlaceTranskei
… Bantustan policy of the apartheid government, announced in 1959. Under the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951, the Transkei became, in 1959, the first region to…
Chapter 4
… possible that they could run out on the 1935 decisions of Convention and flout the expressed wishes of the people and … full force of these Acts. When,…