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EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… pro-British opposition party winning the next all-white election in South Africa, if Seretse Khama was allowed to be …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… of the World Health Organisation (WHO). 6 May, final election results announced by the Independent Electoral … Nelson Mandela announces he will not be…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… but would not exist for more than five years after the election of the constituent assembly. In discussions with the … speed up the process and seek an early…
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
… freely. As we approach South Africa`s second democratic election, we should all be concerned to eradicate the … to ensure a climate of tolerance. We must…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… at the end of its name. After a (mostly) free and fair election in which the MPLA received the majority of votes, UNITA accused the leading party of…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… © infrasors.co.za . After the ANC won the first democratic election in 1994, Popo Molefe was appointed the premier of … March 1999, just a few weeks before…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the … 1946 Chief Albert Luthuli defeated Selby…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… image of Nelson Mandela after he cast his vote in the 1994 election. Trying to take over the mantle from Bra Juda has …
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), and the election of Steve Biko as national president on its formal …
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… As he had been the sole presidential candidate in each election during his term of office, Kenyatta was re-elected …
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… Government. (Mover: Kimberley) DISCUSSION: THE GENERAL ELECTION, introduced by a member of the Working Committee 1 …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to contest one or more constituencies in the general election. Trade unionism Comrade ES Sachs, reporting on the …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… country. The Afrikaner National Party won the 1948 general election under the slogan apartheid, meaning separateness. …
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… have to be publicly elected to government. In the 1932 election the Nazis won 37% of the votes, and Hitler was …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… National Party (NP) government followed up its unexpected election victory in 1948 with a massive social restructuring …
Chapter 1: Introduction
… when he refused to take part in the first democratic election scheduled for 27 April 1994. Furthermore, the period … violence and vigilantism, which made it…
Local Government
… on its agenda, in terms of the Gold Laws, was the election of a nine-member ‘Digger’s Committee’ to draw up … a five-member ‘Gezondheids Comite’, or Sanitary…
EventCoup attempt on S Doe's government in Liberia
… Samuel Doe to power. The opposition refused to accept the election and were threatened by Doe to accept them. As a …
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… and the formation of units etc, or propaganda, leaflet bombs etc.? The LC feels that our most important task … population in, say, CT [Cape Town], than to…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… of long and difficult negotiations followed by a national election. So the remark is not so far removed from reality as …
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… to the allegation that I had attached conditions to my re-election as President-General of the African National … told conference so before allowing my name…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Hertzog tendency. In 1953 the NP fought its first general election after its 1948 victory. OPSA switched its support … Party – this after Jan Smuts’s South…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… but Zuma was the President of the ANC. After Zuma’s election, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) served him …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… prepared go to the polls on 6 September of that year. This election provided De Klerk's government with a mandate to … proposals; it was also to be the last…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… remain committed to the undertakings we made in our 2004 Election Manifesto and this year`s January 8th statement. In … the twin evils of poverty and…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… National Congress, even used Vulindlela in its 1999 election campaign. The timing of Vulindlela was also …
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… campaign had been not only to get a boycott of this dummy election and to e Coloured Affairs Department, but to build … the mighty political weapon of the…