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ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… Party and South African Labour Party wins the national election and General J.B.M. Hertzog becomes Prime Minister. … to meet with the Native Affairs…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… imposed. The National Party won 134 seats in the general election, the highest proportion ever gained by one party in … of South Africa. 1981 The National…
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…
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…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… with Nyerere as president Nkrumah's CPP wins general election in Gold Coast; Britain promises independence Frank … in Nairobi Restoration of civil rule in…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… with Nyerere as president Nkrumah's CPP wins general election in Gold Coast; Britain promises independence Frank … in Nairobi Restoration of civil rule in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… 5-6 May, In anticipation of the Whites-only general election on 6 May, the UDF calls for a national stayaway. … More than 100 incidents of violence were…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… Jabavu criticises the format that the AAC uses for the election of its leadership. The first annual conference of … Dr. A.B. Xuma issues a statement on the…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… League is formed. The NP under Malan makes gains in the election. The ANC draws up a Bill of Rights based on the … wins the most seats in the 1948 South…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… by South African police in Cape Town while protesting election. 1990 22 July, 19 people are killed, allegedly by … is the first incident of this nature post…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… held its first democratic elections . The ANC won the election with 62.65 % of the vote. The National Party (NP) …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… and Development Programme (RDP) which was part of the election platform of the African National Congress in the …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… common sense of national unity. After the 1994 democratic election in South Africa, a new non-racial constitution was …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… May, DF Malan 's National Party government follows up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… of Biko’s death. Prime Minister Vorster then called an election, and a large majority of White voters called for …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… Prosecutor, Moreno-Ocampo, to refer Kenya due to the 2007 election violence. The Prosecutor also referred Côte d’Ivoire … the Rome Statute – to the ICC in…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… and the Olympic Movement itself. 22 April, The general election results in the return to power of the National Party … 18 May, Following the results obtained…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… of the World Health Organisation (WHO). 6 May, final election results announced by the Independent Electoral … Nelson Mandela announces he will not be…
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…
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 …