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EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
… here to view the speech by Nelson Mandela announcing ANC Election victory … Mandela, N., Speech by Nelson Mandela announcing ANC Election victory , African…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… written a multitude of articles for various journals. In 1948, the University of Pretoria awarded Albertyn with a …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… as a clerk at Lloyds in 1947. The two married in September 1948. Their marriage was prohibited in Botswana and escalated …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… well as the local ANC branch when he moved to Kimberley in 1948. When the Defiance Campaign started in 1952, Letele …
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… of a retired army officer. They were married in September 1948. Khama’s Uncle Tshekedi ordered him to come home so that …
ArchiveDeportation of NUSAS President Elect
… Elect, John Sprack, as well as arrangements for the election of a new President. Also included are …
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… was successful despite his rivals’ disputing the April election’s results. His main rivals were MuhammadBuhari of …
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… The National struggle climaxed during the Apartheid era (1948 - 1994) where gross human rights violations were … 1) and in the Universal Declaration of Human…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… Africa's oppressive Government. The Apartheid laws of 1948 had meant that racial discrimination was officially … they married and which jobs they were…
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… left the country for Lesotho. After the ANC 1994 election victory, he was appointed first premier of Northern …
EventSouth African Political activist, James Sofasonke Mpanza dies
… the Sofasonke Party, still exists. In the Soweto UBC election of 1971, it took over half of the council seats, …
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… exercising the minds of the masses. The excitement of an election campaign is gathering force and gives the Convention … It is necessary for the Convention…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform … sometime between 1937 and 1951,…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 3: Dont help sellouts to get R40 000 a year
… Union of South Africa) is calling these winners of that election sellouts; saying that they have interests only of …
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Daily Telegraph.[vi] Bevil Rudd passed away on 2 February 1948 in Kimberley, Northern Cape.[vii] End Notes [i] Bevil …
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… ANC Secretary General. With the National Party victory in 1948 came the official implementation of apartheid. …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… developed a manifesto in 1944 and published a program in 1948. The ANC officially adopted this program in 1949, which …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… been an article of faith for the National Party (NP) since 1948. The new prime minister told his fellow Whites that they …
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… in the first Stiebeuel anthology. Cussons went abroad in 1948 to Amsterdam with her husband CJM Nienaber where she …
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's League in 1948. …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Africa Day on this date. After the first democratic election in 1994, South Africa joined the OAU on 23 May 1994. …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) …
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… quarter of 1992. The second phase would begin with the election of the constituent assembly, substituting the …
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… Chief Photographer of The Star, was killed in bloody pre-election fighting in Thokoza township on the East Rand, just …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… signed in Washington D.C. on 1 January 1942. In 1948 the National Party (NP) came to power, introduced the … prepared go to the polls on 6 September of that…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more rigorous and these …
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… to the allegation that I had attached conditions to my re-election as President-General of the African National … told conference so before allowing my name…
EventFrancis William Reitz, South African lawyer and politician, is born
… for his openness, to the point of winning a presidential election unopposed. A talented poet and writer, Reitz made a …
EventCiskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted independence
… Sebe as president the following day. The date of Sebe's election as president seems to be 5 December, though some …
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
I first came into contact with Comrade Devadas Paul David in 1977, soon after a few of us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by his youthful…