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ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
… improve contact with workers. The union held a week-long election process for shop stewards, to guarantee that the …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… Africa’s first democratic one-person-one-vote non-racial election. …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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 …
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…
ArticleCommercial, Catering & Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA)
… of the union that is responsible for policy development, election of leadership and programmes is a national congress …
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
… muscle emerged to challenge the validity of the election results or to pose a threat to their acceptance. On …