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BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… In 1943 he completed his matriculation with an A-symbol in history. That same year a public meeting was held in Dundee … in the Unity Movement in the…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… Ltd., in Cape Town since then. He is also writing the history of his family at the Cape. He serves in a voluntary capacity on the Boards of the South African…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… per cent and the budget deficit was growing, putting the NP government under even greater pressure. Nonetheless, the … right wing and allow them to join the…
PlaceSophiatown
… The JCC was controlled by the National Party (NP). These new arrivals had no place to go; thus they were … and excess materials in Sophiatown. The National…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… Congress, n.d. [circa 1978]). ANC, Unity in Action. A History of the African National Congress 1912-1982 (London: … (Johannesburg: Penguin, 1990) Baskin, J.,…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… Armed Conflict on Children, the first of its kind in the history on the United Nations, demonstrated to the world …
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
… administration became one of the most popular in the history of Brazil. According to the Washington Post, “Under …
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
… role in the birth and evolution of our kind of jazz. History will also remember him as the creator of a township …
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… of the most successful election boycott campaigns in the history of South Africa. Under the banner of the revived NIC …
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… home, with his father often relating the political history of Port Elizabeth during the turbulent 1950s and …
BiographyPaul Alberts
… of the War Museum. Paul Alberts wrote a chapter on the history of combat photography. Alberts compiled and edited an …
BiographyCheryl Carolus
… She was detained for five months in 1976. Carolus became a History and English teacher and was involved in the 1981 …
BiographyDavid Hemson
… years in Britain, Hemson moved to Tanzania where he taught history. Hemson was part of a group of activists, along with …
Article1994 Cabinet
… South Africa FW de Klerk , 1994 until July 1996 when the NP withdrew from the Cabinet. Thabo Mbeki , from 1994. From …
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… its seats from 17 to 26. And even within the ruling NP itself was divided between verkramptes (hardliners) and …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… attacks by the ruling class and the Nationalist Party (NP) government, elected in 1948. The victory of the NP in 1948 was a victory for the most reactionary…
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
… the media. A similar attempt by the Nationalist Party (NP) Government was rejected by opposition parties in 1979, … political contexts are completely…
BiographyCassim Mahomed Lakhi
… instead. He was appointed lecturer in the Department of History of Art. He headed the Department from its inception …
BiographyKewpie
… District Six” unearthed an entire archive of local queer history. In 2018, the annual District Six Heritage Day Parade …
BiographyMabel Palmer
… . Dr Palmer was later appointed lecturer in Economic History at the then Natal University College – NUC (now the …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… reality imposes a central role for the ANC and the NP in the transition. The ANC is the custodian of the peace process - while the NP is the party in power…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… of the organisations as “the biggest conference in the history of the Coloured sector of the oppressed.” The major … social analysis. If Gramsci’s Notes on…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… negotiations in recent constitutional and political history. The most striking and encouraging feature of this … parties was as follows: ANC, 312 members (63…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… itself. The central blockage stems from the refusal of the NP government to move together with all of us in the process … the continuing direct and indirect…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… the general election of September that year. However, the history of the DP goes back to 1959 when a number of liberal … that year, in which the DP improved…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… as "one of the most painful times in our province's history, when child deaths across the Western Cape shook us … understood within the broader context of…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… that year, in which the DP improved its position while the NP lost seats both to the DP and to the right-wing …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… , a basic introduction on Marxist materialist view of history and class struggle, played a huge role in Motlanthe’s … 9 August 1987, NUM embarked on the…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… Kwazulu which was offered to them by the National Party (NP) . But hostility between Inkatha and the UDF often became … in the defeat of apartheid in Namibia…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to address the obstacles preventing multi-party … structures that had previously collaborated…