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EventCoup attempt on S Doe’s government in Liberia
… Samuel Doe to power. The opposition refused to accept the election and were threatened by Doe to accept them. As a …
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… Worldwide economic crisis Democratic victory in 1932 election FDR's New Deal …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… first used the term “united democratic front” in July 1948 in his call for a new stage of the struggle. He clearly … arrest" tactics of the authorities in…
PlaceSenegal
… Diouf was president from 1981-2000. In the presidential election of 2000, he was defeated in a free and fair election by the opposition leader Abdoulaye Wade…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… calling upon all Coloured voters NOT to vote in this dummy election. Here are some of the reasons why you should BOYCOTT … colour or sex or religion. II…
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 for the sixth time since 1948, but with…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… and Louis Botha’s South African Party winning the first election to national government. The SAP stood for … your isolated white race’. Apartheid Ten years…
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… the so-called new constitution in a total boycott of the election by our Indian compatriots. Such a massive boycott …
EventNational Party wins national elections
… National Party (NP) wins the South African general election with an outright majority. Race plays a critical …
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… political activity in Bophuthatswana, a member of the anti-election Freedom Alliance. His stance caused widespread …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… homeland's government decided against registering for the election and the African National Congress (ANC) called for a …
PlaceOld Magistrate’s Offices and Residence, Main Street, Simonstown
… yellowwood tree planted by the Resident Magistrate in 1948. One of the most popular exhibits at the museum with a …
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… World War. At the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Britain attempted to remove its presence from the …
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… by Naicker before a NIC conference in June 1947. In a 1948 speech before the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain laws had to be put in place to maintain white …
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… up in 1951, 1954, and yearly from 1962 to 1968. Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned more than …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer Republics: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State). …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… the so-called new constitution in a total boycott of the election by our Indian compatriots. Such a massive boycott …
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) won the election overwhelmingly and on 14 November Mr Martti …
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… After the September general election, F.W. De Klerk was inaugurated as the new State …
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… 1 Three of them died in office 2 and only one lost in an election. 3 If that is not a sign of stability on South … not know what is. But let us take the…
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…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
EventHelen Suzman condemns the Immorality Act in Parliament
… to South Africans eligible to vote. In the general election of 1961, the Progressives were nearly wiped out, and …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
… suspension of its armed struggle, thus opening the way for election participation by its members. With the ANC and the …
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… and intimidation in South Africa prior to the 1994 general election. During the first year of its existence the …
EventA book claims that SA’s Nuclear weapons programme has continued since 1993
… others had been moved to Israel before the 1994 general election. President Nelson Mandela differed with the book …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… collection of stories, Mafeking Road , was published. 1948 Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) is possibly the most famous novel to have come out of … of black…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… learners in standard 4 and upwards it was decided that the election of a school committee should be left to the school … of apartheid, the National Party,…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… The transitional talks culminated in the first democratic election on 27 April 1994 eventually ushering in a democratic …