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ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
Poet, scholar, botanist, auxiliary soldier, journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the…
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…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… note without comment at this stage that it comes in a pre-election year: an election that, for good or for worse, must affect our struggle for liberation; an…
IX - The Doctors
… you got to make any assumption? Why didn't you ask him? Reply inaudible. Kentridge In your affidavit there is a … not have asked whether he had received a…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Bashir accepted the results and said he would not seek re-election when his term expires in 2015. The Bush …
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… and after apartheid was brought to its formal end with the election of Nelson Mandela to be the first President of the …
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… reelected president with only 36 percent of the vote in an election marred by widespread violence and fraud. By 1997 …
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 ……
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… Africa’s external debt. This demand was met with a curt reply by the World Bank President, Barber Conable, who …
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… for explanation for extending quarantine. They receive no reply December 24, The Medical Officer of Health visits the …
Indian education in Natal
… Technical College in Pietermaritzburg submitted a similar reply. December, The first trade union congress organised by …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… active participation in government institutions. At this election, the first white 'coloured representatives' were to … the COD, as 'coloured representative'…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… a commission to draft new laws in November, and a general election in March 1856 increased the number of Volksraad … sides came to an agreement, and a fresh…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… and the United Parties. “The outcome of the provincial by-election between the United Party and the Progressives in … reiterating its “total opposition” to…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… The Nationalist Party (NP) wins a majority in the general election and introduces a policy of apartheid. 1949 Sobukwe …
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… to protect colonial farmers of all kinds, to secure the election to Parliament of candidates who would represent …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… and seize weapons, although campaigning for the impending election was permitted. Conclusion The State of Emergency …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… been very low in the first place. The effectiveness of the election campaign revitalised the UDF and MDM as it became …
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
… in 1989. Following South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, she was elected to Parliament and rose …
PlaceBurundi
… Pierre Nkurunziza announced his intent for seeking re-election [v] . As of January 2016 an estimated 439 people had … the political violence following…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
… are happy to join in congratulating you on your unanimous election as current Chairman of the PTA Authority. Tanzania - … allowed voting to occur up to two…
Statement, on Behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the Closing Session of the Seventh Summit Meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States, Arusha by O. R. Tambo, 1 - 2 December 1988
… are happy to join in congratulating you on your unanimous election as current Chairman of the PTA Authority. Tanzania - … allowed voting to occur up to two…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… of R.V Selope Thema breaks away in a protest against his election. Thema did not trust neither Dr J Moroka nor the … stoppage of work by Blacks to coincide…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… violence to an end: • the control of violence during the election campaign; • the election itself; • acceptance of the election results. Violence during…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… to raise a force of 5,000 men. The Secretary of Defence’s reply was brusque to the point of rudeness ( Fighting Their …
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… Technically the struggle was over. With Mr. Mandela’s election as president on the horizon, optimism, not … to set in. Significantly Mr. Mandela’s 1994…
PlaceMangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State
Mangaung is a Sesotho name meaning "Place of Cheetahs". Legend has it that when the first settlers arrived, they were stunned by the vast plains, that were…
Chapter 6. Conclusion by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… response elsewhere than in Europe. Moreover, if we wish to reply to the expectations of the people of Europe, it is no …
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… Kelly for £500, upon which this house was built. After his election as President of the new ZAR in May 1883, contractor …