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ArchiveStatement by Mr D J Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information
… comment, to the effect that the government is asking parliament for additional powers for the police because it …
ArchiveDaai geld, daai geld, daai baie geld!
… to South African tax money and names apartheid members of parliament who were accused of fraud, theft and mismanagement. …
EventDr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… his comrades when he joined the ANC, serving as Member of Parliament. His eldest son, Dr Gerhard Koornhof, also joined …
EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… announced in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament that South Africa will subscribe to the Universal …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… to co-opt the Indian and "coloured" communities with a tricameral parliament that made nominal concessions to those groups, the …
EventSamuel Marks (77) dies in Johannesburg
… African and European Investment Company and Senator in the Parliament of the Union of South Africa. He was also a friend …
Address of The President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 21st Plenary Assembly of SADC Parliamentary Forum - Usambara Lodge, Mogale City, 14 November 2006
… also like to take this opportunity to wish our Pan African Parliament, whose sixth sitting started yesterday, on Monday, … efforts to promote the…
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President’s Council fails
… allow for a role for both Indian and Coloured people in parliament but which still excluded direct political …
ArchiveMessage of goodwill and solidarity
… the occasion of the meeting of the Swedish people parliament against apartheid. The meeting is taking place …
EventGovernment tables the third Constitution of the Republic of South Africa before the House of Assembly
… (NP) majority. The Constitution created the tri-cameral parliament, providing for separate houses for White, Coloured …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… the age of 85. Merriman was one of only a few members of Parliament who opposed the Native Land Act introduced in …
EventThe Population Registration Act of 1950 is repealed
… Act (Act No 30 of 1950 ) was repealed by the South African parliament. The Act was a pillar of the Apartheid system. It …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
… Buildings, Pretoria after being unanimously elected by parliament. He replaced the outgoing National Party leader …
The President’s Council, mandated to consider South Africa’s constitutional future, releases its final report.
… chosen by a tri-racial electoral college, a three-chamber Parliament representing the White, Coloured and Indian …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… of the Nation Address before the democratically elected parliament. 25 May, the Security Council adopted a resolution … on the grounds of irretrievable…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
… as they are. POM Do you find this in Cape Town, in parliament, that it devotes a lot of its attention to what … there have been the first open elections,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a 30-year ban on the … Nelson Mandela. 24 January, President…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… Orange Free State).The British colonial power, through its parliament, enacted the Constitution that denied Africans … General Smuts achieved a small…
EventPFP stays its ground concerning president Vorster
… Progressive Federal Party (PFP), official opposition in parliament, refused to congratulate John Vorster on his …
Address at the official opening of the ASB Congress on 28 June 1971 in the Aula, Pretoria
… and otherwise there was no reason whatsoever why Parliament could not change South Africa into a Republic by … and some English papers had already put him in…
PlaceAkasiapark, Residential Area for Civil Servants
… Residential area for civil servants, members of parliament and railway officials, laid out on part of …
EventZach de Beer is elected as leader of the PFP
… the party had only 17 seats out of 178 seats in the White parliament. De Beer succeeded Colin Eglin. …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… the invasion could take place Botha needed the support of Parliament. A special session of Parliament held on 9 September 1914 voted in favour of the …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… the right to elect and to be elected to the Houses of Parliament. The Riotous Assemblies (Amendment) Act No 19 of … was also created. The NRC could make…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… and occupation, except in certain areas exempted by Parliament. Elsewhere in the Transvaal, they could not own … means is that there will be three out of 156…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… calling elections this year to renew the apartheid tricameral parliament. Almost five years after its establishment, this … as the local government…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 8
… then M. P. for Pinetown, raised certain questions in Parliament. The case was investigated for a second time with … requires no comment. Part of the function…
EventGeneral Laws Amendment Bill is passed
… called the General Laws Amendment Bill, was passed in parliament despite rejection from the opposition parties and …
EventPFP Leader Colin Wells Eglin born
… 8 April 1989 as opposition to the National Party (NP) in parliament. Source: Gastrow .S. (1983). Who's Who in South …
EventThe Labour Party (LP) adopts a resolution to represent the Coloured community
… to represent the Coloured community in a restructured Parliament. The resolution was adopted even though the …