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ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Lords. Love of Labour Lost When the Labour Party won the election in 1964, Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced in … in Edinburgh in July 1970 and the…
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… The second election to the Coloured Persons' R epresentative Council …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… National Front-Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF), the anti-election structure constituted by the Conservative Party …
EventSouth African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected woman president in post-war elections
… president in post-war elections. Mbeki said Sirleaf's election signalled a "new dawn for African women". Sirleaf, a …
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 …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the freedom and …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… takeover of the government by the National Party (NP) in 1948 led to friction between the UN and South Africa. The …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… Nationalist Party (NP) seizing power in the elections of 1948. …
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948. As we know, the United Nations has, since 1948 adopted many declarations and resolutions dealing…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… after the National Government had won its second General Election. The Liberal Party stood firm for a democratic …
EventF. W. de Klerk is implicated
… African National Congress (ANC) between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation. Van der …
EventOubangi-Shari achieves independence as the Central African Republic
… died in mysterious circumstances during the presidential election campaign), as president. On 31 December 1965 Dacko …
EventCommodore Dieter Gerhardt and his wife are sentenced to life imprisonment
… to the change of government following the 1994 general election. …
EventSouth West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… government of Namibia. SWAPO won the first independent election in 1989 and Sam Nujoma became the first president of …
EventPaul Biya becomes president of Cameroon
… Biya won another seven-year term in the presidential election of 11 October 2004, officially taking 70.92% of the …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… This finally emerged as the National Party that won the 1948 elections, became the ruling party of South Africa for …
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… Federation. The cleric held this position until 1984. His election was a great honour for the Evangelical Lutheran …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… in the province of Matabeleland. The effects of this election would make both ZAPU and ZANU into tribally-based …
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… was moving towards holding its first all-inclusive general election in April 1994. …
EventLocal elections receive go
… the holding of elections before December, 1995. The Election Task Group, responsible for organising the …
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… Congress (ANC). Three parties, the ANC (who won the election), the National Party (NP), and the Inkatha Freedom …
EventThree South African provinces are renamed
… After the first South African democratic election, the country was demarcated into nine provinces. …
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… President Robert Mugabe vows to retire if he loses election. Zimbabwe July 30 2013 Robert Mugabe President Robert Mugabe wins the election by outright…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… crowds await the result of the first Parliamentary election of the Union of South Africa held on 15 September … republics and colonies, and only whites could…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… umbrella organization name, the SAIC. In September 1948, Dr. Naicker was elected as President of the SAIC and in …
Constitution of the AAC, December 1937
… reasons for his absence he shall forfeit his position. 6. Election: The Officers of the Convention (a) shall be elected … office for three years, and (c)…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… Africa holds local government elections. To read the ANC’s election manifesto click here . 2001 8 January, In the … ANCYL leader recently elected to head…
EventDr Louis Luyt is born
… he personally bankrolled. The FA took part in the1999 election and Luyt was elected to Parliament. He served as a …
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… when his party suffered defeat in the first democratic election. …
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… Africans of all races and which could win a democratic election. He was reported to have become frustrated and …