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The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the … are confident of a total rejection of the so…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… sections of the African National Congress (ANC) - adopts a constitution which invites the affiliation of all African … Convention (AAC) issues a statement…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… the Sharpeville massacre and just before the ANC and the PAC were banned. Sharpeville, of course, marked a major … idea of a United Front was discussed…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… Next week is another confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the … are confident of a total rejection of the so…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… increases and poor education facilities. In addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983 … and was due to go into effect later…
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the same policies of non-racialism, and retains the constitution drawn up by members of the Progressive Party in … in the negotiations leading to the…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… it is comforting to look back at a seeming golden era of constitution-building and its architects, and lament the … of the Constitutional Court, in a way…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… Early in the 1960s, following the banning of the ANC, PAC and SACP, Asmal went into exile. He spent most of his …
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… who aligned themselves with the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC). FOSATU has been described as being concerned with …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… beginning of 1960, she joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). On 1 September 1961, Bessie Emery married Harold Head, …
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… – and which has De Klerk’s fingerprints on it. The 1996 constitution is routinely praised as a splendid document but … the ANC has simply disregarded the…
Negotiations, the ANC Vision of a New South African and the Indian Community Keynote Address by the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… enter the period of the drafting and adoption of the new constitution by the Constituent Assembly It is during this … the Interim Government of National…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then PAC president. (Photographer: Oupa Nkosi) Image source It has … Army, the military wing of the Pan…
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… and HIV-treatment seems to be the most common. Under the Constitution of South Africa , women received formal …
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… stand on constitutional reform, calling for an entrenched constitution incorporating a Bill of Rights, an independent judiciary and for a federal…
Event90-Days Act commences
… Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both banned organisations. It also allows people …
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… desirable, has so far progressed that a draft South Africa Constitution Act has been prepared, and is now under the … consideration of the various Colonial…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… issues in the 1980s led to the adoption of a new constitution for the Republic of South Africa, in which … into effect on 22 September 1984, under the South…
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… This phase would include a multi-person presidency and a constitution-drafting parliament. All participants in CODESA … African National Congress (ANC)…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP leader Chief Gatsha … them and Inkatha. Throughout the drafting of…
EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… scale to participation by Indians and Coloureds in the new Constitution. In 1983, the National Party (NP) Government introduced an amendment to the South…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… declared by the government, both the Pan African Congress (PAC) and the ANC were banned from the country in accordance …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the Rivonia Trial , saw a lull in … rank and file members went into exile to…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… position to refute. Arthur represented activists from the PAC, BCM, ARM, ANC and the SACP, as well as those from the … President of the Constitutional Court…
Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… that "the right to lock out should not be included in the constitution". There is no reason why lock-outs need special … all references to the lock-out…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… Citizenship Act) No 26 of 1970 was repealed by the Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of …
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… laid the foundation for the democratic South African Constitution. Comrades, Compatriots, Friends, The apartheid … As said earlier, it formed the basis of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Reconciliation, 2003 Ebrahim, Hassen, Soul of a Nation – Constitution-making in South Africa . Cape Town, Oxford … Maharaj, July 2002 Republic of South…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… on the inhabitants of the territories, the 1946 French constitution provided for decentralization of power and … some of Niger's laws and policies, and…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… conformity with the democratic principles embodied in the constitution. (D) All organs of government, including … and dedicated to defending the principles…