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EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… Congress’ Women’s League (ANCWL) on 8 December 1993. The election came just a year after she resigned from all ANC … within the ANC, securing 5th place in…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
Professor Ismail Jacob (Josef) Mohamed was born on 27 July 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five years old. His mother,…
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… mammals, and was tragically killed in a motor accident in 1948. …
EventVuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Mapumulo, Natal
… Vuminkosi Zulu was born in Mapumulo, Natal on 24 November 1948.He studied art at Rocke’s drift art school and completed … Scott-Berning, G., (2011). ‘…
EventDemonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho
… Lesotho as protests against the outcome of the 23 May 1998 election results intensified. The protests were organized by … King Lestie, demanding him to use…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… As the strike occurred on the eve of the general election of 1923, it became of the causes of the defeat of the Smuts government in that election. There is…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Landdrost is appointed for Johannesburg. 8 November, The election of the first Diggers’s Committee takes place. 9 … is taken over to serve the needs of the…
EventMonty Naicker dies
… of the liberation struggle in this country. As early as 1948, he called for a united front amongst the oppressed …
EventSouth African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa as negotiations to end apartheid gain momentum
… community. Since the establishment of apartheid in 1948, various attempts had been made to isolate the country. …
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… Baré Maïnassara organized and won a flawed presidential election in July 1996. Baré's party, Union Nationale des … 90% of parliament seats in a similarly…
PlaceWakkerstroom
… political shifts like the rise of the National Party in 1948, underscores its strategic value. This constituency …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… held to see the amount of support for the reforms. The election for the House of Representatives (coloured) was … the police brutally attacked those…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… it established a network of local business chambers. By 1948 national coordinating bodies were formed to oversee the … undermined the ‘disciplining effects’…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… parties, culminating in the country’s first non-racial election in 1994. All legally eligible South Africans were …
EventCape Coloured Board agrees with the Department of Education on the establishment of an Art Centre for Coloured children
… was taken during a meeting held in Cape Town on 2 June 1948, where it was agreed that the centre would be under the … Anon, (1948), ‘Art Centre for Cape…
EventAlan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
… novel 'Cry, the Beloved Country', which was published in 1948 is still in print. Paton was a founding member of the …
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… already heightened political tensions, and so close to the election, was perceived as a very real threat to the election process. …
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… was not a stronghold of the ANC. For instance, after his election in 1984, Sonto helped mobilize support among the …
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… casts his vote for South Africa’s first democratic election at Trafalgar Square in London. 1995 Huddleston …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… Vereeniging.This came two years after the first democratic election (1994) of the President of the Republic of South …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… was expected to make great strides in the coming general election of 1915. The outbreak of war in August 1914, …
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… of Parliament. By the time the first democratic election took place on April 27 1994, Sindiso was the only …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… The Conference insists on various conditions before an election and a single-chambered Constitutional Assembly … demands: that there be an immediate…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… demands and pressures of the radicals and called a mass election meeting for 24 January 1943 - the first such meeting … were plastered all over Johannesburg,…
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
… Paul Sibisi was born in Umkhumbane, Durban on 23 September 1948. He studied art at the Ndaleni Educational Training …
EventDr Alexander Logie du Toit, South African geologist, is born in Cape Town
… Continental Drifting. Dr Alexander Logie du Toit died in 1948. … People Du Toit ," Alexander Logie (South Africa 1878-1948) ",From : People Du Toit , …
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
… office in a landslide defeat by the National Party (NP) in 1948, which then introduced Apartheid policy. He became the …
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… White women in South Africa up until 1930 when the Hertzog election platform promised to raise the issue of granting the … in parliament, on condition that…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… over a mass rally in Johannesburg as part of the anti-election campaign. 11 May: On behalf of the ANC, Xuma … Jan Smuts on restarting the Native…