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EventRadical politician, journalist, teacher and co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC) branch in Cape Town, James Thaele passes away
… leadership position to A.V. Coto in the 1938 provincial election. …
ArchiveAn approach to the Democratic party
… can gain access and influence and the Democratic Partys election strategy and its decision over participation in the …
ArchiveDecide our response
… Student Body boycott, countrywide calls to support anti-election call. Stamp of University of Natal. …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… (NP) decided to join their parties together for the next election. Coalition was rejected and they decided to enter … 1931 Foreign Affairs Status and Seal…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Congress (ANC), uses the votes of women to ensure his re-election as president of the organisation. 1934 Sarah … and voter educators and accompanies Nelson…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… Lennox Sebe, leader of the Ciskei) were not happy with his election. He spent eighteen months in this post before being …
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
… for 1 March 2006. Dipico was to head the national election machinery of the African National Congress (ANC) in …
EventDipuo Peters is born
… position by President Thabo Mbeki after the 2004 general election. …
EventNew Afrikaner Political Party
… a political party in order to contest the 1999 general election. Although the new party drew support from a number …
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party won the general election on a platform of separate development. In 1950 the …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki congratulates his US counterpart
… his US counterpart, President George W. Bush on his election for a second term as president of the United States, …
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… here to view the speech by Nelson Mandela announcing ANC Election victory … Mandela, N., Speech by Nelson Mandela announcing ANC Election victory , African…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… advocated the policy of apartheid. The general election of May 1948, won by the Herenigde National Party … policy of South Africa for the next fifty years…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… the United Party." "The Irresponsible" In conclusion the leaflet says: "You have heard accusations that the TARC is …
ArchiveDeportation of NUSAS President Elect
… Elect, John Sprack, as well as arrangements for the election of a new President. Also included are …
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… was successful despite his rivals’ disputing the April election’s results. His main rivals were MuhammadBuhari of …
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… left the country for Lesotho. After the ANC 1994 election victory, he was appointed first premier of Northern …
EventSouth African Political activist, James Sofasonke Mpanza dies
… the Sofasonke Party, still exists. In the Soweto UBC election of 1971, it took over half of the council seats, …
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… exercising the minds of the masses. The excitement of an election campaign is gathering force and gives the Convention … It is necessary for the Convention…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
… Union of South Africa) is calling these winners of that election sellouts; saying that they have interests only of …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Africa Day on this date. After the first democratic election in 1994, South Africa joined the OAU on 23 May 1994. …
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white liberals were horrified. They saw the result … Dr Xuma, spoke for many on the eve…
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… quarter of 1992. The second phase would begin with the election of the constituent assembly, substituting the …
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… Chief Photographer of The Star, was killed in bloody pre-election fighting in Thokoza township on the East Rand, just …
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… for his openness, to the point of winning a presidential election unopposed. A talented poet and writer, Reitz made a …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… leader of the National Party (NP) in the Transvaal. His election came after Dr Andries Treurnicht quit the party. At …
EventCiskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted independence
… Sebe as president the following day. The date of Sebe's election as president seems to be 5 December, though some …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
I first came into contact with Comrade Devadas Paul David in 1977, soon after a few of us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by his youthful…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Lords. Love of Labour Lost When the Labour Party won the election in 1964, Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced in … in Edinburgh in July 1970 and the…