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SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), and the election of Steve Biko as national president on its formal …
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… As he had been the sole presidential candidate in each election during his term of office, Kenyatta was re-elected …
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… Government. (Mover: Kimberley) DISCUSSION: THE GENERAL ELECTION, introduced by a member of the Working Committee 1 …
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… at the end of its name. After a (mostly) free and fair election in which the MPLA received the majority of votes, UNITA accused the leading party of…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… © infrasors.co.za . After the ANC won the first democratic election in 1994, Popo Molefe was appointed the premier of … March 1999, just a few weeks before…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the … 1946 Chief Albert Luthuli defeated Selby…
EventCoup attempt on S Doe's government in Liberia
… Samuel Doe to power. The opposition refused to accept the election and were threatened by Doe to accept them. As a …
Chapter 1: Introduction
… when he refused to take part in the first democratic election scheduled for 27 April 1994. Furthermore, the period … violence and vigilantism, which made it…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to contest one or more constituencies in the general election. Trade unionism Comrade ES Sachs, reporting on the …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… country. The Afrikaner National Party won the 1948 general election under the slogan apartheid, meaning separateness. …
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… have to be publicly elected to government. In the 1932 election the Nazis won 37% of the votes, and Hitler was …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… National Party (NP) government followed up its unexpected election victory in 1948 with a massive social restructuring …
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… Republic slogan. It was only in the light of Trotsky's reply to the Draft Theses of the WPSA that the South African … by the Trotskyists, led by Goolam Gool,…
Local Government
… on its agenda, in terms of the Gold Laws, was the election of a nine-member ‘Digger’s Committee’ to draw up … a five-member ‘Gezondheids Comite’, or Sanitary…
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… of long and difficult negotiations followed by a national election. So the remark is not so far removed from reality as …
ArchiveEstablishing the Constitutional Assembly
After South Africa’s first democratic elections, the newly elected parliament would double as a Constitutional Assembly and would be responsible for writing…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Hertzog tendency. In 1953 the NP fought its first general election after its 1948 victory. OPSA switched its support … Party – this after Jan Smuts’s South…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… and the formation of units etc, or propaganda, leaflet bombs etc.? The LC feels that our most important task … population in, say, CT [Cape Town], than to…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 22 April 1976 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… I should like to avail myself of this opportunity to reply to certain questions which were put to me and to …
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… and the members of the Negro Commission did not trouble to reply to these arguments. They said that the C.P.S.A. had …
Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… and respect. Perhaps there are two reasons why I should reply to the toast. One is that men who have experienced the …
Enuga S Reddy: Meeting with SWAPO in Dar Es Salaam -1969
… SWAPO was that freedom rested in its own hands. He said in reply to a question that a Committee of Jurists to expose …
In memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 September 2009, Durban
… and I asked why he was alone. I will never forget what his reply was: “You don’t think I carry my church with me.” There …
PlaceDurban International Airport
… Airport until 1994 – the year of the first Democratic election held in South Africa. This election was won by the ANC and Nelson Mandela was elected ……
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… remain committed to the undertakings we made in our 2004 Election Manifesto and this year`s January 8th statement. In … the twin evils of poverty and…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… prepared go to the polls on 6 September of that year. This election provided De Klerk's government with a mandate to … proposals; it was also to be the last…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… but Zuma was the President of the ANC. After Zuma’s election, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) served him …