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Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… on the idea that modern South African photography began in 1948, with the legalizing of apartheid — compulsory racial … war that went on for more than four…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… affairs, reported two months before the 1938 General Election that the United Party was still "a coalition rather … Government's position has been so…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… the United Party received a greater share of the votes in 1948, the HNP (with the assistance of the Afrikaner Party) … prime minister and state president in…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… support. 4 March, Natal’s Indians were to hold the annual election of the NIC, where they hoped to boot out the … People (NAACP), and Progressive Citizens of…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… and English colonisers. Following its victory in the 1948 elections, the National Party (NP) dominated all White … Dutch and English colonisers. Following…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… 1907-1914 Indian passive resistance in South Africa, 1946-1948 Defiance Campaign 1952 The Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… in Kenya. 1961 February – KANU wins the first general election under the new constitutional dispensation, taking 16 … is re-elected as President in Kenya's…
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
… No House, No Vote’ campaign against the 2006 municipal election in Durban. The campaign began with a march to Durban … political party forgets about our…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… between National Party which ruled South Africa since 1948 to 1989 and African National Congress (ANC) which was … Africans saw their first one-person…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… by a vote of 73 to 52 to Simon PetrusMatseke. This election marked the emergence of two factions in the …
The start of mass campaigns
… Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1948, the same year that I joined the ANC and the trade union the Nationalists won the election and…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 8 January 1972 1973 " Black Reaction to Apartheid: 1948-1973 ". Address by Oliver Tambo to the Annual Meeting of …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
… release, his forgiveness of his captors, negotiation, his election victory and his willingness to step down after one …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ‘ Iron Curtain’ speech 1947: Marshall Plan is announced 1948 : February, Communists take over Czechoslovakia 1948 : June, The ‘Berlin Blockade’ begins…
Nelson Mandela Family Tree
… 1945, died 13 July 1969 aged 24) Makaziwe Mandela (died 1948 aged nine months) Magkatho Lewanika Mandela (born 1950, …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and discrimination. He spent six years at Wits, from 1943 -1948, but, owing to the dire circumstances under which he … on to the Transvaal Provincial…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1947- 1948 Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of … on the Campaign 1947 - Press…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and the Apartheid state When the Nationalist Party won the 1948 election Afrikaners acceded to state power, and they used … from the assumption of power by…
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… who play a role in their country by participating in an election. Secret ballot: A ballot is the piece of paper that …
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… sympathisers from the Transvaal. 20 October 1946 At a mass election meeting over 12,000 people, from all over Transvaal, … 1947 The Transvaal Indian…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… Memorial. Source: http://www.dacpm.org On the day of the election on 9 September 1989, more than 20people were killed … staged a stay a massive stay away in…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… constitution after the BNP (23 seats) loses the January election to the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP, 36 seats); … becomes prime minister after the LCD…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
… "The Economic Policy of The Soviet By Isaac Deutscher 1948". Marxists.Org. https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1948/economic-policy.htm. [11] …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… engaged in these talks. President Thabo Mbeki. The 1994 election paved the way towards a new democratic dispensation … eligible voters, 19.7 million voted…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… ESCOM’s output increased by five times between 1933 and 1948. Part of this growth was due to ESCOM taking over … of coal into oil. In the annual report of…
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 … at the International Women's Day Meeting in…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Post 1948: Institutionalising Apartheid & the Apartheid Laws When the Nationalist Party came to power in 1948…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… Indian government document put to the United Nations in 1948 (Document 2 - Letter dated 12 July 1948 from the representative of India to the … the treatment…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and … but no one was executed. After the first democratic election in April 1994, a new…