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Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… February 1969, during its fifteenth Annual Conference the constitution was altered in such a way as to debar Africans …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Alliance, decided to plan a convention and draft a new constitution for South Africa. On 26 June 1955, a meeting was …
EventAgreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached
… Gqozo later issued a decree amending the homeland's constitution to allow sovereignty to be relinquished. …
ArchiveGuaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
… a bill of rights for South Africa; and drawing up a constitution that fully acknowledges the minority groups of …
Statement by President Mandela on receiving the report of the TRC Pretoria, 29 October 1998
… no longer the country it was when we adopted the Interim Constitution in 1993, when, together, we resolved to overcome … journey is the TRC of all of us. It…
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Geneva, 19 May 1998
… happen again. We therefore elected to be governed by a constitution that protected all in equal measure. If our constitution was blind to the reality of…
EventSeparate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968 is enacted
… found Repealed by s 101(1) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110 of 1983. …
EventMandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks
… was at the time beginning to chart a way forward on a new constitution for the country. Mandela accused President F. W. …
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
… representative government have been established under a constitution, initially in a negotiated interim form and now … the basis of the 'devil you know.' In…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… The International, October 1 1915. Document 9: Provincial Constitution of the International Socialist League published … to the Executive of the Third…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… born in Tzaneen. 4-6 April, The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) is founded in Orlando by the Africanist faction that had … as president and Potlako Leballo as…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
… will spell disaster for the economy. In terms of the constitution, "an act of parliament must provide for a … considered to be in line with the letter and…
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, declares a state of emergency
… yield to their demands without amendments to the colony's constitution, including a graduated extension of the …
EventOubangi-Shari achieves independence as the Central African Republic
… coup by Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who suspended the constitution and dissolved the National Assembly. On 23 March …
EventSouth African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly
… in office. His speech came a year after Transkei Constitution Act created a Legislative Assembly, based in …
EventThe Kingdom of Ashanti is formally annexed by Great Britain
… Tutu together with his chief priest, Ashanti changed the constitution and the symbols of office in order to expand the …
EventSA Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails
South African Prime Minister P. W. Botha warns the country that confrontation will be inevitable if his proposed President's Council fails. The Council was…
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… in a Winterfield house. Both the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and African National Congress (ANC) claimed …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… Marx’s grave. 22 September, The Republic of South Africa Constitution Act is passed. This Act establishes the … prepared to talk to the ANC if it renounces…
EventMinister of Defence, PW Botha discloses that South Africa's northern borders are protected by a radar early warning system
Minister of Defence, PW Botha disclosed that South Africa's northern borders are protected by a radar complex constituting an early warning system, and that…
Statement on the release of the NDC decision, 29 February 2012
… and the organization on the matter, as informed by our Constitution. Issued by: Derek Hanekom Chairperson of the NDC …
ArchiveSelf rule in the Transkei: a monstrous fraud
… The Bantu Authorities in Transkei have accepted a constitution, which the Unity Movement is unhappy about; to …
EventProgressive Federal Party is formed
… rights for all South Africans and the negotiation of a new constitution at a national convention. Liberal, mainly …
EventTranskei gains complete independence
… did not incorporate the apartheid ideology into its constitution, but became a multiracial state in which all …
54. South African Indian Congress: first annual report, 1924
… were passed and sent to the proper quarters. A provisional constitution for the creation of a South African Indian … for the more serious and important work…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… African National Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) and the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), in …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… were seen as an extension of resistance led by the ANC and PAC. Consequently, the most active union federation, the …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… movement. The initiative was taken by the ANC and the PAC which called on Africans to revolt against the carrying …
Education for Service
… set in motion the process of drawing up and establishing a constitution that will ensure, inter alia: (a) that South … is exercised over the whole of its…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… sexual freedom as a fundamental human right in the new constitution. In 1996, South Africa's new Constitution made discrimination based on sexual orientation…