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EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… to the Defiance Campaign of the 1950s." Further reading: Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944' (document in SAHO …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… One result of this was the new tricameral South African Constitution of 1983, which continued to exclude all South …
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… by 'full independance' in 1976. Section 4 of the Transkei Constitution Act of 1963, an Act of the South African …
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… administration played a critical role in shaping the constitution of the envisaged Union of South Africa even …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… that produced a successful referendum on a new constitution in the Democratic Republic of Congo, ‘one of the …
"Strategy and Tactics" - Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
… between some organisations which were legal (e.g. SAIC, CPO, COD) [South African Indian Congress, Coloured … and economic emancipation of all our people and…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… to focus our attention on the fundamental role of the Constitution of our country, as the foundation of the nation … are, where we come from and our vision…
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… settlement first and then dealt with drafting the Constitution - which is not usually the case in other … was necessary, as the process of drawing up of the…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda Kigali 19 October 2000
… was that clearly we were going to require a democratic constitution which would enjoy the support of the people of … Africa. The immediately posed a problem…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation Kigali, Rwanda, 18 October 2000
… was that clearly we were going to require a democratic constitution which would enjoy the support of the people of … Africa . That immediately posed a…
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-business summit 30 March 1994
… which will culminate in the drafting of a new democratic constitution. These rules, encapsulated in the interim constitution and electoral laws, might have…
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-Business Summit 30 March 1994
… which will culminate in the drafting of a new democratic constitution. These rules, encapsulated in the interim constitution and electoral laws, might have…
EventThe Choice of Termination Act is enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
… the right to abortion access is protected by the constitution and bill of rights, which stipulates …
EventThe Black People’s Convention (BPC) holds its first National Congress
… future and find solutions to their own problems. The BPC's Constitution declared its intention to preach and popularise …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… of provisional governments followed, but by 1990, a new constitution had been adopted and the charismatic …
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… at the conference. A committee was formed to draft a SANNC constitution so that an umbrella federation of all African …
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… , 1906 On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to be granted to the Transvaal and Orange River … more important point, whether it will be a…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… Congress (ANC), and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) known as the Defiance Campaign . Matomela along with … greater group of well-trained members,…
Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 10 years of Democracy In South Africa Monday 10 May 2004, Cape Town
… We, the people of South Africa, the Preamble to our Constitution states, believe that South Africa belongs to all … sacred duty to ensure government by the…
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… supporting democracy and is subject to protection by the Constitution. …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… A. B. Xuma revise the African National Congress (ANC) constitution, and was charged with incitement during the …
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… participated in the convention (1908-09) that framed the constitution of the Union of South Africa. After the split …
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… Laws Which is uniting the people to say away with the New Constitution, because it doesn’t give us freedom We are here …
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… a climate conducive to peaceful negotiation for a new constitution. 6. The current endemic violence creates further …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… mass politicisation of the oppressed peoples. The 1983 constitution was roundly criticised in opposition circles for … Furthermore, on 3 September 1984, the…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… mass politicisation of the oppressed peoples. The 1983 constitution was roundly criticised in opposition circles for … Furthermore, on 3 September 1984, the…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… and Whites, excluding Black South Africans. The Anti-SAIC, as it would soon be called, would plant the seeds that …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… of objecting to the draft South African Act, and the Union constitution. The SANNC meeting convened by John Dube and Dr …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… African Indians. With 1994 and the advent of a democratic constitution, immigration policy restrictions, imposed by the …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
… Charter, which has now found expression in our national Constitution. Central to that vision is the course on which … to all who live in it, black and white…