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EventApartheid becomes official policy
… was appointed the Minister of Finance. When the 1948 election campaign started, the UP failed to see that it was … hopes and fears for the future…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… congratulations to Dr Malan on his victory in the General Election They were sore, very sore indeed, that their leaders … has been profoundly affected by the…
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
… to South Africans eligible to vote. In the general election of 1961, the Progressives were nearly wiped out, and …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… suspension of its armed struggle, thus opening the way for election participation by its members. With the ANC and the …
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… and intimidation in South Africa prior to the 1994 general election. During the first year of its existence the …
EventMarais Steyn dies
… to do more than keep Verwoerd busy in the run-up to the election. After years in the opposition, he defected to the …
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… others had been moved to Israel before the 1994 general election. President Nelson Mandela differed with the book …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… politics. The ANCYL resolved not to support his re-election as president unless he endorsed its Programme of …
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… The transitional talks culminated in the first democratic election on 27 April 1994 eventually ushering in a democratic …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… confirmed the rumours that he would not stand for re-election in 1999. This is in accordance to what he had …
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… led an ANC delegation to Juba on sharing political and election experiences and to help SPLM prepare for their first ever elections. 2010: ANC further…
Document 16 - F. W. de Klerk’s speech at the opening of Parliament
… 1999 elections. There is a standing CC resolution for an Election Platform as a basis for COSATU's support for the ANC election campaign. The need for an…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… members and would go on to win 8% of the votes in the 2009 election, leading to the party having 30 MPs in Parliament. …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… announced that they would only support leaders for re-election at the ANC’s 53rd National Conference, held in …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… defining modern day South Africa for generations. The 1910 election gave expression to the majority of white South …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… formed to resist the measure. In 1981 when the Council's election took place only 10% of the Indian voters cast their …
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… in it, that we speak to you on the eve of this crucial election. We trust most earnestly that you will heed our …
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… with discussion on its constitution and the formal election of office bearers. It is now possible to reveal new …
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… was indeed the violence of white minority rule. In fitting reply to this rule served on our people, the ANC, supported …
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… matters of difference be discussed. To date we have had no reply. Nevertheless we still hold the door open. But the need …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… of the unexpected National Party victory in the 1948 election. Privately Eben DÁ¶nges, who as Minister for the … organisation, there were mixed feelings…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Group for Namibia announces its proposal for a UN mediated election and the supervised withdrawal of South African … and police. 4-8 December 1978 The South…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… White political domination was maintained through the election of national office holders and by the extension of … from independence to mid-1997 , Westport:…
EventRhodesia adopts new constitution
… eliminating discriminatory laws and agreeing to a general election whereby the government would reflect the true …
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… as well as not wanting to take part in the general election that was to be held during that year. In December …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… flared once more after the announcement of the General Election of 1994, because of attempts of both the ANC and the …
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… system of petty apartheid by the time of 1994 general election that brought the ANC to power. …
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… party only agreed to participate in the first democratic election in April 1994, after the ANC and NP had committed …
Say It out Loud - The 1909 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 13th April 1909
… Lord Stanley, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to petitions from this Colony, and chiefly from this … the electors and elected? " To this…
EventANC flag raised at the funeral of John ‘Hennie’ Ferus
… withheld party participation in the 1981 general election, in which the National Party won another landslide …