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BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… of the Royal College of Physicians of London from 1983 to 1989, a post he held also with great distinction. He …
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… issues in the 1980s led to the adoption of a new constitution for the Republic of South Africa, in which … of representation for Whites, Coloureds and…
BiographySir George Grey
… who regarded him highly, and helped to draw up the free constitution granted to New Zealand. When he arrived at the …
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… revised second edition of Art and Artists of South Africa (1983:380), and gave September 1897 as SASA's amended founding … formation of the Society,…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… racial policies. In a newspaper article published in 1983, Asvat recalled his initial optimism about the prospect … dream called freedom. But alas, it was…
BiographyDorothy Adams
… working with Albie Sachs researching issues around a new constitution of the post apartheid South Africa. As political …
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… in the camp’s newspaper, the Itumbi News Daily . In 1983, the group relocated to a new camp in Mgagao in Iringa. …
EventUDF is launched
… Centre in Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town on 20 August 1983. Its inception was inspired by the union of anti-apartheid organizations in opposing the Tricameral…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… Constitutional proposals which exclude blacks. In 1983, the National Party (NP) Government introduced an amendment to the South African constitution to…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Car bomb carnage in SA's worst-ever urban terror attack, Rand Daily Mail, 21 May 1983
… worst-ever urban terror attack, Rand Daily Mail, 21 May 1983 …
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Unsettling whites objective of MK bombing campaign: TRC told, SAPA, 13 May 1998
… SA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Unsettling whites objective of MK bombing campaign: TRC …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… increases and poor education facilities. In addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983 had been tabled and approved by…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… including forced sexual contact. South Africa’s democratic constitution of 1994 (introduced in 1996) was very advanced … subject to their chiefs or heads of…
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… save a suspected informer from a murderous mob. When a new constitution was proposed for South Africa in 1983 to defend against the anti-apartheid movement,…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Keep out of it or our planes will hit back, by Chris Olckers and Jose Caetano, Rand Daily Mail, 24 May 1983
… by Chris Olckers and Jose Caetano, Rand Daily Mail, 24 May 1983 …
EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… scale to participation by Indians and Coloureds in the new Constitution. In 1983, the National Party (NP) Government introduced an amendment to the South…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… press union, Solidarity News Service, Medu, and the ANC Constitution Committee, Klug inserted himself into the … United States, Bay Area Anti-Apartheid…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… another Masters Degree in Communication and Television in 1983.He then joined the National University of Lesotho as a …
ArchiveUDF Unites To Expose What Underlies Reform
… United Democratic Front was launched in Cape Town in Agust 1983 to unite a broad range of organisations against the new constitution and Koornhof Bills…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
PlaceParliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town
… on a series of limited reforms in the early 1980's. In 1983, the Constitution was reformed to allow the Coloured and Indian … first democratic election in…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… Vereeniging 1910 31 May, Adoption of South Africa’s first constitution 8 Jan 1912 Formation of the ANC 1948 National … Angola gain independence 1980 Zimbabwe…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… February 1969, during its fifteenth Annual Conference the constitution was altered in such a way as to debar Africans … work stoppage because they did not…
EventSeparate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968 is enacted
… found Repealed by s 101(1) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110 of 1983. …
ArchiveUDF Rally Orient Hall Durban in Opposition to Mr. P. W. Botha's Meeting with Indian Leaders in Durban City Hall, 14 November 1983 (Indicated as 1985 in header page)
… with Indian Leaders in Durban City Hall, 14 November 1983 (Indicated as 1985 in header page) …
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… as being the first by a Black South African. In November 1983, a special music festival was held in homage to his …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… confidential political information. [38] Finally, in 1983 Violet’s daughter visited her for the first time after …
BiographySimon Nkoli
… of LGBTQI+ people were included in South Africa’s new constitution. Through his activism, Nkoli led South Africa to …
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… two British colonies of Natal and the Cape Province, the constitution explicitly excluded Blacks from participating in … of this objective was the passing of…