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ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Africa Day on this date. After the first democratic election in 1994, South Africa joined the OAU on 23 May 1994. …
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white liberals were horrified. They saw the result … Dr Xuma, spoke for many on the eve…
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… quarter of 1992. The second phase would begin with the election of the constituent assembly, substituting the …
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… Chief Photographer of The Star, was killed in bloody pre-election fighting in Thokoza township on the East Rand, just …
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… for his openness, to the point of winning a presidential election unopposed. A talented poet and writer, Reitz made a …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… leader of the National Party (NP) in the Transvaal. His election came after Dr Andries Treurnicht quit the party. At …
EventCiskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted independence
… Sebe as president the following day. The date of Sebe's election as president seems to be 5 December, though some …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
I first came into contact with Comrade Devadas Paul David in 1977, soon after a few of us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by his youthful…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Lords. Love of Labour Lost When the Labour Party won the election in 1964, Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced in … in Edinburgh in July 1970 and the…
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… The second election to the Coloured Persons' R epresentative Council …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… National Front-Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF), the anti-election structure constituted by the Conservative Party …
EventSouth African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected woman president in post-war elections
… president in post-war elections. Mbeki said Sirleaf's election signalled a "new dawn for African women". Sirleaf, a …
39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899
… presented a further address. The honorary secretary in, reply to all the addresses said that the presentation was … Agent-General for Natal, was interviewed…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… after the National Government had won its second General Election. The Liberal Party stood firm for a democratic …
EventF. W. de Klerk is implicated
… African National Congress (ANC) between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation. Van der …
EventOubangi-Shari achieves independence as the Central African Republic
… died in mysterious circumstances during the presidential election campaign), as president. On 31 December 1965 Dacko …
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… to the change of government following the 1994 general election. …
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… The Chamber's secretary instructed the office staff not to reply to communications from the Union. Unofficially, of … To all their repeated communications…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… to the NEUM. And so it was that except for issuing a leaflet – preaching, without soiling their hands, from an … being no medical facilities in Linbro Park…
Chapter 6
… Province Committee of the All African Convention issued a leaflet, "Calling All Africans,"which was a rallying cry to … arises from our recognition of this…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… in August 1973. Dr Monty Naicker received an official reply from F.R. Salmon, Secretary for the Interior, which …
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… of democratic elections May 1994- December 1996 12. Post-election political violence 13. Apartheid stakeholders - …
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… government of Namibia. SWAPO won the first independent election in 1989 and Sam Nujoma became the first president of …
EventPaul Biya becomes president of Cameroon
… Biya won another seven-year term in the presidential election of 11 October 2004, officially taking 70.92% of the …
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… Federation. The cleric held this position until 1984. His election was a great honour for the Evangelical Lutheran …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… in the province of Matabeleland. The effects of this election would make both ZAPU and ZANU into tribally-based …
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… was moving towards holding its first all-inclusive general election in April 1994. …
EventLocal elections receive go
… the holding of elections before December, 1995. The Election Task Group, responsible for organising the …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… Congress (ANC). Three parties, the ANC (who won the election), the National Party (NP), and the Inkatha Freedom …
EventThree South African provinces are renamed
… After the first South African democratic election, the country was demarcated into nine provinces. …