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ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… and autonomy from central government control. In the 2004 election the IFP lost control of the province of …
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… Africans saw their first one-person-one-vote non-racial election in 1994. The Interim Constitution was restricted …
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… Volk, a party of the Afrikaners in the Transvaal wins the election and forms a government to take part in the …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… We would like to congratulate Comrade Motlanthe on his election as the State President. We will support him … be clear about our strategic objectives in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate University of Zululand, 30 May 1998
… voice of dissent which roared in the build-up to the 1994 election has been subdued". It went on to complain of this as … it is also because we know that…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… president of the ANC in 1930; and his unsuccesful bid for election to the Native Representative Council. That he was an … the last months of his stay in…
The Afrikaner Bond
… in the victory of the Nationalist Party (NP) in the election of 1948 , when the NP began to institute the … for: the Bond to put forward patriotic candidates…
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… realise the priorities of the mandate which derives from election and ongoing interaction with civil society. One of …
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… speech, after the ANC's victory in our first nonracial election on April 27 1994, De Klerk congratulated Mandela on …
The start of mass campaigns
… the ANC and the trade union the Nationalists won the election and they became the government. That was a very bad …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC: Before Christ. Used in the Christian calendar to show a particular…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
Steve ‘Kalamazoo’ Mokone was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. He became the first black professional footballer to play in Europe, when he signed for the…
EventThe 'Afrikaner Volksfront' is founded
Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front (Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF) was…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… "Use Palm Sunday to help Africans get freedom", another leaflet was headlined. "Show the world we oppose Jim Crow … felt involved. I was more than casually…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… "Use Palm Sunday to help Africans get freedom", another leaflet was headlined. "Show the world we oppose Jim Crow … felt involved. I was more than casually…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
… the falsehood and telling the Bantu the truth. The election talk goes on as though it were a question of … - and under the new Bill provision is made for the…
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
… depends who the ANC elects as leader in December. If the election goes a certain way, I can’t predict exactly which … I think the tensions might even explode…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
After South Africa's first national democratic elections in April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first democratic President at the Union…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the State of the Nation address
On 16 February 2019, Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his first State of the Nation Address at the parliament as the newly elected president of South Africa. This…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA's first Executive President
South Africa's Prime Minister since 1978, P.W. Botha, was unanimously elected by eighty-eight members of the Electoral College to the office of first executive…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
Analysis of the role of the SACP in formulating the development policies of the ANC: The case of the National Development Plan (NPD) Co-Authors: Lolonga…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… Imam Rashied also facilitated political education and election-related discussions in 1994 just before the first … in the mid 1960s to late 1970s. The first…
Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944
… must resign and the Speaker must immediately conduct election. (e) Conference shall elect the President and his … The National Executive Committee shall…
EventDr. Nico Diederichs is inaugurated as South Africa’s third State President
Dr. Nicholaas Diederichs (Nico), former Finance Minister, was inaugurated as South Africa's third state president, in succession of President Jim Fouche…
EventDivision in the Coloured Representative Council deepens
… to it. While the Labour party won more seats in the CPRC election, the scale was tipped in favour of the Federal Party …
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… families, was pushed into the ANC's 2000 local government election manifesto by the Congress of South African Trade …
The kanga, womanhood and how Zuma's 2006 rape trial changed the meaning of the fabric by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail and Guardian), 10 Aug 2016
… young women protested in front of Zuma as he spoke at the election results ceremony, one of them held a placard that in …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… vote. (F) Every voter shall have the right to stand for election and to be elected to all legislative bodies. …
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… the KZN homeland, the IFP won the most votes (the election was marred by irregularities). One of the new … the country between Mbeki’s resignation in 2008…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president Omar al Bashir. Bashir had…