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EventThe Black People’s Convention (BPC) holds its first National Congress
… future and find solutions to their own problems. The BPC's Constitution declared its intention to preach and popularise …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… of provisional governments followed, but by 1990, a new constitution had been adopted and the charismatic …
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… at the conference. A committee was formed to draft a SANNC constitution so that an umbrella federation of all African …
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… , 1906 On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to be granted to the Transvaal and Orange River … more important point, whether it will be a…
Address during a joint sitting of Parliament to mark 10 years of Democracy In South Africa Monday 10 May 2004, Cape Town
… We, the people of South Africa, the Preamble to our Constitution states, believe that South Africa belongs to all … sacred duty to ensure government by the…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… who later becomes leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), is present. The government appoints the Eiselen … and a number of universities are forced to…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… and particularly as it was to be used again in 1960 by the PAC, an understanding of this tactic is necessary. For the … - v.d. Bijl Park - Evaton) to turn…
EventPansy Tlakula, Chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, announces her resignation
… supporting democracy and is subject to protection by the Constitution. …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… A. B. Xuma revise the African National Congress (ANC) constitution, and was charged with incitement during the …
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… participated in the convention (1908-09) that framed the constitution of the Union of South Africa. After the split …
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… Laws Which is uniting the people to say away with the New Constitution, because it doesn’t give us freedom We are here …
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… a climate conducive to peaceful negotiation for a new constitution. 6. The current endemic violence creates further …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… of objecting to the draft South African Act, and the Union constitution. The SANNC meeting convened by John Dube and Dr …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… African Indians. With 1994 and the advent of a democratic constitution, immigration policy restrictions, imposed by the …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) also prompted the struggle movement to take up arms and … Despite the 13 th , 14 th and 15 th…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… spearheaded moves to form an SRC acceptable to students. A constitution was drawn up and presented to Admin in 1972. This constitution was turned down…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
… Charter, which has now found expression in our national Constitution. Central to that vision is the course on which … to all who live in it, black and white…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… charge that Convention with the task of drawing up a new Constitution for this country which would be acceptable to … for a single purpose - round-table…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… greater speed and urgency, following the prescripts of our Constitution. The provision of dignity to our people … South Africa becomes a constitutional…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… of the Freedom Charter and its realisation in our new Constitution makes everything government does take a very … nomination, even though it was legal in…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… Unity Movement and the ANC, and between the ANC and the PAC could have been resolved". 9 Nonetheless, the … units and regions as organs of the Party, the new…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… character and one which entirely corresponded with our own constitution, that I could not in all conscience refuse to … [and] were instructed to send at an…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… establish the Azania Youth Movement, affiliated with the PAC. 1968 Asvat finishes his MD training at Dow Medical …
PlaceHobeni
Hobeni is a Village in Mbhashe Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The Mbhashe Municipality is a remote outpost of the Eastern…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… basis of sexual orientation in South Africa’s democratic constitution. Nkoli campaigned for the recognition and …
PlaceSeychelles
… Presidential and Legislative Elections held under a new Constitution in which President René was victorious. …
Giyani, Polokwane
… stepchildren despite their official status in the Constitution.” SABC 2 premiered South Africa’s first Xitsonga …
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… Procedure Act, was in conflict with the country's 1994 constitution. The ruling did not apply, however, to the crime …
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… The department’s spokesperson Oupa Bodibe said: “The Constitution affords every child the right to education …
PlaceLiberia
… for Sierra Leone. Before departing they had signed a constitution requiring that an agent of the Society …