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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 , …
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 …
PlaceNamibia
… Voortrekkers who had previously settled in Angola. Until 1948 the highest authority in the territory was the … with the UN over South West Africa as a tool…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… (2011), “White Domination and Black Resistance, 1881- 1948” from Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in … age/south-africa-white-domination-and…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… enough courses to get his law degree before he died. In 1948, the family moved to Ginsberg Township, just outside of … to you congratulations from our local…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… of adherents, many with links to the political movements. 1948 The National Party comes to power in South Africa on a … Group for Namibia announces its…
EventPaul Kruger is elected president
… on 3 August 1881) for the first time. He won the election against Joubert with 3 471 votes to 1 171. Kruger … and announced a policy based on Christian…
EventLevy Mwanawasa, third President of Zambia dies in Paris , France.
… Mwanawasa was born in Northern Rhodesia (Now Zambia) in 1948. He studied law at the University of Zambia and went on …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… eventually culminated in the first non-racial democratic election in 1994. The following is to be covered in this …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… a seat in the new post-Apartheid parliament. >After the election of 2004, he entered into an alliance with the ANC, …
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… Preceding the formal application of apartheid in 1948, Indians in Durban had to contend with the “wilful … not known”. Understandably, the specificity of the…
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… Indians, Malays, Coloureds, and Whites. However, between 1948 and 1988 more than 60% of the Pageview population was …
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 …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… Party (NP) after it won the heavily contested elections of 1948 following the end of the World War II, 1945. After …
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… On 4 July, 1948 respected academic Professor Njabulo Ndeble was born in …
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… Steel and Iron Corporation (Iscor). Van der Bijl died in 1948 and is regarded as one of the greatest South Africans …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… international support and help raise funds for its election campaign. On the first day of the conference, the … deadline to 4 March. 15 March, The ANC’s…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… goods or holding parties or celebrations. The Whites-only election of 5 May 1987 was preceded by a UDF call for … would be held. He announced that he would…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… his award-winning photography of Nelson Mandela during the election near the end of his time in exile. Hallett’s … 140 black-and-white images of Nelson…
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… was to occur after South West Africa had held a general election. This election never took place, and South Africa continued to …
PlaceLouw House Museum, Sutherland
… an honorary degree from the University of Utrecht in 1948, and was a professor of Afrikaans at the University of …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing … a majority of the seats in the 1953 South African General Election. The…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… transformation” and that the decision to boycott the election came from being “sick and tired of being used as pawns by political elites who only 'care'…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… This vivid poster from the September 1930 Reichstag election summarizes Nazi ideology in a single image. A Nazi … This vivid poster from the September 1930…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… On 15 September 1910, South African held its first election after the formation of the Union and General Louis … in Johannesburg to hear the outcome of the…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… fact that we have done so in the midst of the most crucial election campaign of our national history speaks for itself. … the importance which we attach to…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… village and township. The final stage would involve the election of delegates from each locality who would then meet …
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… due to a heart attack. Flynn was born on 13 December 1948, and was educated at Plumstead High School in Cape Town, …
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… in WWII. The building, which cost £235000, was begun in 1948 and completed in 1972. It was declared a National …