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EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… writing process began in 1994, after the first democratic election.Two years later, the CA adopted the final …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Landdrost is appointed for Johannesburg. 8 November, The election of the first Diggers’s Committee takes place. 9 … a department store in Johannesburg. May,…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Ramodike saw him picked to represent the party in the 1994 election. But a storm of protests eventually saw him removed … with an overwhelming majority in…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… African Party that prevailed in the Union’s first general election in September 1910, with Louis Botha as Prime … the White section of the population, and…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… country became known as Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. In a general election the following year, Zimbabwe emerged as an …
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… as ambassador to the United States from 1950 until his election to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in 1959. A …
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… politics, winning a seat in Parliament in the 1906 general election. He became the Chancellor of Exchequer (Cabinet …
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… government in 1906, in preparation for a national election to be held in 1910. Milner’s administration played …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… ANC in Natal was a fractured organisation and Champion’s election marked the ousting of Dube. From 1944, Dube’s …
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… the president-general on 16 October 1952. Following his election, Luthuli's movements were restricted by the …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… his control in the country after his party lost the election. Moshoeshoe went into temporary exile in the …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… In the same year, South Africa held its first democratic election. With the process of re-constructing post-apartheid …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… 1994 27 April, South Africa’s first democratic election 1994-1996 Constitutional Assembly writes the new …
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… to the people is - beware of this death trap." The General Election The forthcoming General Election was the next question commented upon. "We have no say,"…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… supporting the family as the sole bread winner. 1948 The election victory of the Nationalist government precludes … Sisulu was nominated to stand for…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche proposed standing for election for the seat, but eventually scuttled his plan. In … Lucas Mangope became president, and in…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… in towns and cities across the country- to promote an election boycott and opposition to the apartheid state and … Prime Minister. August 31, Five days…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… with Nyerere as president Nkrumah's CPP wins general election in Gold Coast; Britain promises independence Frank … in Nairobi Restoration of civil rule in…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… with Nyerere as president Nkrumah's CPP wins general election in Gold Coast; Britain promises independence Frank … in Nairobi Restoration of civil rule in…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… ensure that the NP won sufficient support at a non-racial election. The plan was to form a new centrist party, and in … for the party. In other words, the…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… foreseen. Except for a temporary set-back in the general election of 1970, the National Party grew steadily stronger. …
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Dr Yahya A JJ Jammeh. In September 2006 Jammeh won the election to return as President for a third five-year term. …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Committee (TASC) be established to oppose the SAIC election. The Committee actively campaigned for a boycott of …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… present committee was elected to office after a vigorous election campaign by the unanimous vote of 7,633 members …
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… discussion about the possible outcome and meaning of this election, which continued long afterwards, to date. Some of … that one of the reasons I would and…
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
… that this country moves as swiftly as possible towards the election of an Interim Government of National Unity and a … consulted before the decision was…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… had indicated their reluctance to support Gumede’s re-election. They were in favour of electing a new leader, ... … with Gumede’s decision to decline to…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… textbook’s lessons on apartheid end with the “historic” election of 1994. That election is undoubtedly an achievement worth celebrating. But …