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EventNational Party refuses to serve on Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry
The South African Prime Minister, P.W. Botha lashed out on the Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry concerning the future of Natal. Botha said that the National…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
Wallacedene is an Informal Housing Settlement in the Eastern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The Settlement was established during the 1980s when 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…
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 …
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 …
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,…
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…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party (NP),…