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BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… through the Empire, from the Statute of Westminster to the Constitution of the NRC or the CAC; from the creation of a …
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… Donkin Street, facing on to the Donkin Reserve, one at 14 Constitution Street and two at 8 and 10 Whitlock Street. The …
EventNigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of EEC
… power was unable to address ethnic tensions or produce a constitution acceptable to all sections of the country. Its …
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… After the South African Parliament had passed the Transkei Constitution Act which replaced the existing territorial …
EventNational Party wins general election
… in South Africa had been increased from 150 to 160 by the Constitution Amendment Act of 1965. It is tempting to …
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… taken by the forum prior to endorsing the Interim Constitution. It was also agreed upon that the new structure …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… system of government and to the writing of a new Constitution for a democratic South Africa. The Conference …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… talks was to negotiate the adoption of a new democratic constitution for South Africa. The talks were set to take …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… first democratic president in 1994. The South African constitution has a stipulation that states that the president …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… the way towards a new democratic dispensation and a new constitution for the country. For the first time all races in …
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… liked it to turn out. On the positive side, we have a good constitution, there has been no effort to really amend the constitution and change the values and…
Liberation organisations
… were doing was to claim rights that were theirs under the constitution. In South Africa, the constitution and the law are against us, so we have to … to the…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… and amongst women. According to the South African constitution , all people have the right to have access to … to alleviate the plight of women within the…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… and Prime Minister selected by Parliament. The Swaziland constitution was a product of its previous British rulers and … it did not reflect the culture of…
Briefing to organisation of African Unity Kampala, September 8, 1990
… going to be entrusted with the task of drawing up a new constitution for the country. It must be a non-racial constitution, democratic in all aspects . In…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… of our new democracy. Your Majesties; When the new constitution was drafted, there concerns were that it did not … of traditional leaders;that it did not,…
Address delivered by Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African National Congress to the graduation ceremony at MEDUNSA 23 March 1991
… South Africa should settle for less. We therefore seek a constitution that is based on the principles of … and democracy. Believe is through a thoroughly…
EventGabon gains independence from France
… the 1990s Gabon introduced a multiparty system and a new constitution that allowed for a more transparent electoral …
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… thousand of them voted yes on the Turnhalle draft constitution in May 1977, with almost 95 percent of them …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… The ANC recognised that even after the adoption of a new constitution, there may still be a need for establishing a …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… save a suspected informer from a murderous mob. When a new constitution was proposed for South Africa in 1983 to defend …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… times at Robben Island. When Nelson Mandela signed the new constitution in 1996, Suzman was along side him. In the …
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… home. He had failed to uphold, defend and respect the Constitution as the supreme law of the land, the country’s … ordered by the public protector was…
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… III, became king in 1986 at the age of 18. Swaziland’s new constitution came into force in 2006 and includes a bill of rights. But these rights are limited…
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April … courage, charm and commitment to…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… Convention to draw up a new non-racial and democratic Constitution for South Africa. The Conference Resolution … Convention of all South Africans to draw up…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… organisation. There has never been a colour bar in the constitution of the union, but despite this very few of the … were employed. I assured them that,…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… spearheaded by the ANC and South African Indian Congress (SAIC). In 1946 when African mine workers engaged in …
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… until it was reaffirmed in the Bill of Rights of the SA Constitution of 1996 . Cape suburbia displayed a 'mixed' … in Courville St, Gardens. District Five…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
The leader of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party was ready to give the President's Council a chance as a start on the road to a…