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ArticleThe aftermath of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… Monument. Until the National Party seized power in 1948, this day was observed as Dingane's Day . After 1948 the National Party government set about…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… for victims injured after a heavy crackdown by the police. 1948 Govan Mbeki and Ma Mofokeng have their fourth child … 1999 3 June, Thabo Mbeki issues a…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… to early in the twentieth century. The main parties in the election were products of political formations that were … see INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… ultimately resulted in a new constitution and general election in 1954 and saw an expansion of numerous opposition …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… chaired an ANC branch in Pretoria and was the party’s election agent for the area during the first democratic …
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… Louis Botha , he withdrew from the public eye until his election in 1907 to the self-governing Parliament of the …
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
Krishna Rabilal was born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). A quiet…
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…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… CONGRESS (BACK TO TOP) CAPE TOWN AGREEMENT (BACK TO TOP) ELECTION MANIFESTOES Open Letter to the Indian Community … (Anti-Segregation Council) Leaflet of the…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… the Nationalist government on its assumption of power in 1948 in order to safeguard and perpetuate that power in the … that repression was not exercised in…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… the country. The Afrikaner National Party won the 1948 general election under the slogan apartheid, meaning separateness. …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… the Sedition Trial of 1946 that lasted two years. In the 1948 elections, the National Party seized power and began to … Jabavu criticises the format that the…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… National Unity Conference, Cape Town, 29, 30 and 31 March 1948 Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] "The … of Betrayal", Freedom , New Series, 1, 5, 1…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Hertzog tendency. In 1953 the NP fought its first general election after its 1948 victory. OPSA switched its support from Hertzog to DF … a daily. Volksblad…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government, serving as Secretary General of the ANCYL from 1948. By the time the Defiance Campaign began, Mandela was … of the negotiations in mid-1990 to…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… represented the majority of Jews in Palestine form 1920 to 1948. [14] Irgun - This was a Jewish armed group led by … saw the destruction of Palestinian…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… National Party and the oppressive policies introduced in 1948. “The Noble Charter” reflects on the origins of the ANC …
Vella Pillay
… movement that I met Patsy who later I married in June 1948 with both of us traveling to the Cape where marriages …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… NP, that enforced segregation throughout South Africa in 1948 – and the social injustices that South Africans had to … In 1994, Mbete and other women ran for…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… both locally and internationally. It was the first election in which all South Africans, registered on a common voters roll, could vote. The election took…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… an actual passbook, click here . Before apartheid began in 1948 there were cases of women fighting racial oppression in … years for the ANC Women's League …
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… to Uitlander interests were set back by the Volksraad election of 1898, when Kruger was again elected as President …
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… ruled the Kingdom of Ndongo would be appointed after an election process where in which various members of the ruling …
ArticleZulu Family History
… September 1968), son of Solomon kaDinuzulu, king from 1948 to 1968. Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu (b. 14 July 1948), son of Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… an increasingly racist government. In elections held in 1948, the National Party seized power and set in motion plans … began the passive resistance campaign…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… a leading advocate of the Africanist thinking in the ANC. 1948 August, Godfrey Pitje, a lecturer in the Department of … The Nationalist Party (NP) wins a…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… In the general election of May 1948, the Nationalist Party polled 400,453 … due quite soon. Andrew, our son, was born on the 4th July 1948, but the nightly…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… Show is held on the grounds of Hoerskool Nelspruit. 1948 The National Party win the general election and begin to institute apartheid policies. 1950 … Kabasa…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… retired from politics completely. ● ANC Women’s League In 1948, Nontsikelelo Albertina joined the newly formed ANC … Sisulu was nominated to stand for…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People 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…