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The Bill of Rights
… practices is entitled, to the extent provided by an Act of Parliament, either to tenure which is legally secure or to … practices is entitled, to the extent…
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 …
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… the move, believing that it would antagonise the new Parliament and alienate support from the missionaries and …
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 …
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 …
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EventThe Population Registration Act of 1950 is repealed
… Act (Act No 30 of 1950 ) was repealed by the South African parliament.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 …
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…
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 …
EventPFP stays its ground concerning president Vorster
… Progressive Federal Party (PFP), official opposition in parliament, refused to congratulate John Vorster on his …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner's contribution to the ANC
… Disciplinary Committee ousted Holomisa from his seat in Parliament on 1 October 1996 after finding him guilty of …
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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 …
ArchiveSouth African Church leaders confront the Sstate
… and after a brief service set out on the short walk to Parliament to present a petition of protest. Within minutes …
EventFelix Mounie, the Cameroon opposition leader is assassinated in Geneva.
… been under the government’s watch for years. In 1991, the parliament of Cameroon declared Felix Mounie a National Hero. …
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… On 4 September 2019, people gathered outside parliament in Cape Town to address gender- based violence in …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament in the Government of National Unity. …
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…
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 …