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ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
The shards of South Africa’s fragmented history share a common thread throughout; at the core is a struggle for equality and visibility. Over the course of the…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… will be responding, because in the end the drafting of the constitution must not be the preserve of the 490 members of this Assembly. It must be a…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would … population and enfranchise the Indian…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… opposition to the introduction of the tri-cameral Constitution, which was put to a referendum in which only …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… (SADF) and were sentenced to up to 18 months in jail. By 1983, 13 objectors had been jailed. In 1977, compulsory … Conscientious Objectors Support Group …
From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]
… Certification of the Amended Text of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 CCT 37/96 … of the Constitutional Assembly: in re Certification of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… our way is his sunnah, our religion is Islam, and our life constitution is the Qur'an. The Trust is presently involved … guests invited were: Year Guest…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… an increasingly marginalized English opposition parties. 1983 The election that followed the NP government’s decision …
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… president of the AAM, a position he holds until 1994. 1983 Huddleston retires from the Episcopal office to St …
PlaceKitson the Steam Train, Krugersdorp
… at SANRASM, Krugersdorp. This Kitson locomotive was, in 1983, the oldest running steam engine in South Africa. She … a National Monument under old NMC…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… the process of public participation in drawing up our new Constitution. COSATU, with membership approaching the two … people and the poor who want to ensure…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… was a dire need for law reform, which began when the new Constitution came into effect in 1996. In terms of section 15(3) of the Constitution of the Republic…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Support Committee (ALSC) was formed in London around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various … groups and unions. Azania Frontline, no. 1,…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
… hearing, the NDC referred extensively to the ANC Constitution; the aims, objectives and character of the ANC; … and to fully familiarise themselves with the…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… has convened to adopt important amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 1993. The … concerns have not been accommodated in the…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… reservations from male comrades in the ANC On the 5 August 1983, Nontsikelelo Albertina was arrested and detained after … political situation in South Africa…
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
… by posing and answering the question – what does our Constitution prescribe in terms of how South Africa should be … to the Constitutional prescripts? The…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… Cape Town, for which the ANC claims responsibility. 1983 The South African Defence Force uses direct intervention … states that harbour ANC activists. By the…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… president. This was a newly created position after the new constitution came into force in 1984. The constitution further created three houses of parliament,…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… this extent threatened to veto agreement on a transitional constitution until political violence had been 'solved … would be responsible for the negoÂ…
Public announcement of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee hearings of Comrades Julius Malema, Ronald Lamola, Pule Mabe, Sindiso Magaqa Kenetswe Mosenogi and Floyd Shivambu, 10 November 2011
… Chief Albert Luthuli House, Johannesburg PREAMBLE The ANC Constitution requires public announcement of the outcome of a … the process and their…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… 3 abducted 1982 9 December Maseru, Lesotho; 42 deaths 1983 23 May Air attack on Maputo, Mozambique; 6 deaths. 1 7 …
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… follows: 1. The lock-out should not be entrenched in the constitution, nor should it be entrenched through the back … should not be protected through a…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… activity, he initiated the process of rewriting the constitution and installing a tricameral parliament. But the … killed. It fed into the drift to the right…
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… immediate transfer of power before a proper transitional constitution is negotiated." (Paragraph 3, Page 4) This is … set in motion the process of drawing up…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… cabinet ministers at a rally in Nakuru: they want Kenya’s constitution changed to prevent the vice president from … gives in and introduces a multi-party…
ArchiveWhos fooling who?
… silkscreen on white; picture blindfolded person; text: New Constitution: Who's fooling who? Apartheid constitution - no thanks; …
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… his mother prevents him from attending her funeral in 1983. He suffers childhood taunts and disadvantage because of … Africa, and instantly relates to the…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… a means to object to the draft South Africa Act, and Union Constitution. This was the South African Native Convention …
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
… 1993. Covers period of negotiations. Focus on the Draft Constitution. Includes graphic representation of Interim Constitution recommended by the Technical…