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Introduction
… muscle emerged to challenge the validity of the election results or to pose a threat to their acceptance. On …
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… On 29 December 1948, a well known human rights activist Rev. Michael Guthrie … International League for Human Rights). In the same year (1948) Rev. Scott was…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… the government would not resume until ANC demands for an election to a constituent assembly, a transitional … international support and help raise funds for…
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…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… forms the ANC Youth League (ANCYL). He marries Evelyn Mase 1948 He is elected National Secretary of the ANCYL 1951 He is …
ArticleSocialism
… of racial segregation and oppression that lasted from 1948 to 1994. During apartheid, the majority of South …
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…
Independent Electoral Commission
… a sustainable organisation with the ability to deliver an election for any level of government within six weeks. …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… following World War Two. 5 The National Party won the election of 1948 on a platform that proposed an answer to this "native … audience. 40 When the…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… allowed into the African National Congress (ANC). In 1948, they created a women’s organization call the ANC … with Black people throughout their supremacy…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed the history of South…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… 1942 The White suburb of Danville is established. 1948 National Party comes to power under DF Malan. The White … bomb explodes at the Laudium home of a…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… this period is the National Party winning the white election in 1948 and the process of instituting formal apartheid. The …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… to be, they were ignored. The reason is that after the 1948 general election the Nationalist Party (NP) emerged victorious and …
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… and the Northern Cape. Joseph passed away on June 1st 1948 and was succeeded by his son who continued the legacy …
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… Apartheid. Fighting for peace Apartheid was introduced in 1948 by the NP (National Party) which was an all-white …
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… Springboks are born. The team is composed of Whites-only. 1948 The National Party comes to power in South Africa after …
PlaceWelkom
… its name after the Farm; 'Welkom'. Welkom was founded in 1948 by Sir Earnest Oppenheimer, (who was the De Beers mining … the North Western Free State. It was…
EventThe third democratic elections in SA are held
… Congress (ANC) received 67.7% of the votes. The 2004 election also marked a decade of democracy in South Africa. … elections had taken place exactly a decade…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… Malan, the DP won 36 seats in Parliament in the general election of September that year. However, the history of the … in South Africa's interim Constitution…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… the ranks of the White population: in the 1981 general election the Progressive Federal Party increased its vote to …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… forces against the South African Party (SAP) in the next election. When his party lost Wakkerstroom in a by-election in April 1924, reducing the majority of…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… In 1948 the Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was established by … were manufactured in an old flour mill in Paarl on 12 June 1948. After 1954 the group expanded…
Chapter 9
… decide how they should own their land. "(Minutes, N.E.U.M. 1948). In the Transkei the AmaXesibe (Mt. Ayliff) threatened … went on between the people and the…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… actively campaigned for a boycott of the SAIC and the election. These boycotts began in August and were kicked off … 1981. Of the 45 members of the Council,…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… On 4 January 1948, the National Flag of the Union of South Africa was … of South Africa." Under the Prince Edward Islands Act of 1948, the Islands were…
Palestine: a homeland denied
… and black poster. Artwork of a head covered in a scarf. 1948 - 1967. …
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… the apartheid regime which had come to power in 1948 and had enacted a series of racist and repressive laws. … His outstanding qualities as a mass leader led…
ArchiveNora
… short CV of Nora Astorga, member of the FSLN, Nicaragua. 1948 - 1988. …