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ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… a failure. 1877 Paul Kruger is persuaded to stand in the election as he had support of the conservatives that wished … Shepstone annexes the Transvaal, as a…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… into a governing party. SWAPO won the first and second election five years later. During its second term in office, … popular votes and 55 out of 78 seats in…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… the decades following the National Party’s takeover in 1948 agent provocateur, pl. agents provocateur – a person … in proportion to the number of votes cast…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… 1946 Moroka plays a leading role in denouncing the NRC. 1948 Moroka is re-elected onto the NRC. He attends …
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… National Congress (ANC) President-General Dr. A. B. Xuma, 1948 Reddy obtains his M.A. from New York University. 1949 26 …
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… with the UDF and thus the ANC and also because of the election of Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo of KwaZulu-Natal was … leaders, a position that gained much…
ArticleSouth Africa - First 20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014)
… parties, culminating in the country’s first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans were …
ArchiveLegislation and race relations: a summary of the main South African laws which affect race relations
… laws which affect race relations. Acts from 1909 to 1948 include among others those relating to political rights, … the African Reserves, housing and…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into institutionalized racism unseen … Midlands. On 15 April 1953, the NP held a…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in 1948. Apartheid called for the separate development of the … before the Afrikaner Nationalist Party…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… campaign had been not only to get a boycott of this dummy election and to e Coloured Affairs Department, but to build … separate representation but who…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… partitioned into two separate states: India and Pakistan 1948 Gandhi announces fast to end Hindu/Muslim violence in …
South African Constitution 1996
… country is governed, The establishment of parliament, the election of the president, the creation and government of …
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… parties, culminating in the country’s first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans were …
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… of Indians was a key issue in the National Party election manifesto in 1948: “The party holds the view that Indians are a foreign …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… both in the Eastern Cape and in national campaigns. In 1948 when Alexander came to Port Elizabeth to expand the … Portraits of Women’s Lives in the Western …
ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… Africa’s first democratic one-person-one-vote non-racial election. …
EventMother Teresa is buried
… The 87-year-old nun died on 5 September. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in … convent walls made such a deep impression on…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… place of bitterness given his disagreement with Ngubane in 1948. For Ngubane Inkundla was an essential part of the CYL. … to CYL activities. Ngubane the…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… of supporting the family as the sole bread winner. 1948 The election victory of the Nationalist government precludes … Sisulu was nominated to stand for…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… inaugurated by the National Party coming into power in 1948, needed people to believe and internalise. District Six … Technical College were erected. After…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… TIC jointly led a passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 in which nearly 2,000 men and women went to prison in … and to attend the Asian Relations…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… the format that the All African Convention uses for the election of its leadership. March, The ANC deputation meets … Jabavu seeking clarity on the All…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… that the party stood a chance of winning a general election. In February 1992 a third by-election was held in Potchefstroom to fill a seat left vacant ……
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… Party under D.F. Malan was introducing Apartheid in 1948, King was graduating from Morehouse College, Atlanta. It emerged from the elections of 1948 won by…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… has been the ruling party in South Africa since apartheid. 1948 The state of Israel is established. Israel is Western …
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… religious and racial oppression wherever it occurred. In 1948, when the National Party came to power in South Africa, … movement. In 1994, Jennifer served…