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Elections Programmes for Deputy President, Secretary General & Treasurer General, 16 May 2011
… and Treasurer General will on Tuesday lead the movement`s election campaign in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Free …
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… General's refusal to dissolve parliament and call an election led to Smuts forming a government and leading the …
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… the negotiations that led up to the first democratic election in South Africa was the reason that the ANC demanded …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… The multiparty forum also agreed that the deadline for the election date would be moved to the 4 th of March 1994. …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… against the system. After South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994, Nelson Mandela chose Mbeki to be the …
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… writing process began in 1994, after the first democratic election.Two years later, the CA adopted the final …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Landdrost is appointed for Johannesburg. 8 November, The election of the first Diggers’s Committee takes place. 9 … a department store in Johannesburg. May,…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Ramodike saw him picked to represent the party in the 1994 election. But a storm of protests eventually saw him removed … with an overwhelming majority in…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… African Party that prevailed in the Union’s first general election in September 1910, with Louis Botha as Prime … the White section of the population, and…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… country became known as Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. In a general election the following year, Zimbabwe emerged as an …
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… as ambassador to the United States from 1950 until his election to the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in 1959. A …
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… politics, winning a seat in Parliament in the 1906 general election. He became the Chancellor of Exchequer (Cabinet …
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… government in 1906, in preparation for a national election to be held in 1910. Milner’s administration played …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Royal Visit - 1947
… the boycott decision. Scenes reminiscent of the last election meeting of two years ago were witnessed last Sunday. … problems of this country were solved. We…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… Nations as constituting a threat to world peace. The reply of the South African Government to the strictures of … as one of the first acts following a…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… and told that he would be dropped ‘like Timol’.” Ngcuka’s reply? There wasn’t one. The chief prosecutor, for some …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… ANC in Natal was a fractured organisation and Champion’s election marked the ousting of Dube. From 1944, Dube’s …
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… the president-general on 16 October 1952. Following his election, Luthuli's movements were restricted by the …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… his control in the country after his party lost the election. Moshoeshoe went into temporary exile in the …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… In the same year, South Africa held its first democratic election. With the process of re-constructing post-apartheid …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… 1994 27 April, South Africa’s first democratic election 1994-1996 Constitutional Assembly writes the new …
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… to the people is - beware of this death trap." The General Election The forthcoming General Election was the next question commented upon. "We have no say,"…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… he said, "People ask me why I work with communists and my reply is that I have one enemy, the Nationalist government, … on behalf of the African National…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… to the tone of Fischer’s letter, there is no full length reply to the substance of her remarks from the WPSA. However, … were no visits for consultations, no…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… supporting the family as the sole bread winner. 1948 The election victory of the Nationalist government precludes … Sisulu was nominated to stand for…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche proposed standing for election for the seat, but eventually scuttled his plan. In … Lucas Mangope became president, and in…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… in towns and cities across the country- to promote an election boycott and opposition to the apartheid state and … Prime Minister. August 31, Five days…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… 10 February, Zindziwe Mandela read out her father's reply to P W Botha's offer of freedom at the Jabulani Stadium … troops from the townships 20 September ,…