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EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… to raise the issue of granting the vote to White women in parliament, on condition that they supported his re-election. …
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
… merely to allay the fears of opposition parties in Parliament at the time. There was a plethora of legislative …
EventFirst celebration of National Heritage Day
… proposed Public Holidays Bill before the New South African Parliament omitted Shaka Day, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), a …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… sash of mourning”¦day in and day out [they stood] until parliament met again.’ (Rogers, 43). The women sought to haunt the members of parliament by following…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… called Dimitry Tsafendas stabbed and killed Verwoerd in Parliament. Under the new republic the suppression of Black … called Dimitry Tsafendas assassinated…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… Olof Palme spoke in Stockholm at the "Swedish People`s Parliament against Apartheid"Palme and Oliver Tambo addressed … The one thousand Swedish delegates at…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… in the Constitution of the Republic.We presented before Parliament, the 2015 State of the Nation Address last … There will be opportunity for comments once…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… 20 February, Elections are held for the first Transvaal Parliament. 23 March, The worst locust plague in recorded … Party (NP) gains a majority of seats in…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… The attitude of the United Party, the major opposition in Parliament, to this and nearly all other tyrannical laws … him from holding any public office or…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… August 8, 2007, after which she was reduced to a member of parliament representing the African National Congress (ANC) … a major in Philosophy and Sociology…
Address by President Jacob Zuma during the commissioning of the OR Tambo school of Leadership, 26 March 2010, Kaweweta, Uganda
… Mbeki, so aptly remarked during his address to the Parliament of Uganda in December 2005: "You supported us in … march in the streets of Kampala from Pan…
ArchiveStatement on Mbeki's recall, by Jacob Zuma on behalf of ANC NEC, 22 September
… of resignation from President Mbeki. Working together with Parliament, we will ensure that the election of a new … precision. We will announce the name of…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill, which will come before Parliament when it re-assembles in January next. The Bill has … but we find that municipalities,…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… In 1913, when the Natives Land Act was passed by the Union Parliament, Gandhi was vehement in his denunciation. An … Opinion declared: “The Natives Land Act…
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… (e.g., demands for racial equality and admittance to parliament, etc.) rather than the independent (of the British …
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… health until his death on 22 August 1978. He was buried on parliament grounds and was succeeded by his vice president, …
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… returned to South Africa. He was elected as a Member of Parliament and served as a member of the ANC National …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… involved in politics and was elected as a Member of Parliament for Kimberley in 1948 under the United Party. …
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… to the British. The Glen Grey Act is an 1894 act of the parliament of the Cape Colony, instigated by the government …
PlaceCape Town Civic Centre and the CBD of Cape Town
… Capital of South Africa. This is where the National Parliament and many government offices are located. The …
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
… of the EFF. Both Dr Ndlozi and Mr Malema are members of Parliament and serve in the National Assembly as elected … advised to address its questions to the…
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, TO THE JOINT SITTING OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, Cape Town, 8 February 2002 Madame Speaker and … of the NCOP, Honourable Members of our…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… The Suppression of Communism Act was to be approved in Parliament shortly after, and the CPSA was forced to …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… in prison. On 31 January 1985, P.W. Botha announced to parliament that the government was considering releasing … Source: http://news.za.msn.com/ On his…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… for two years and later elected as an ANC member of parliament, wrote that, ‘ from its founding, the League had a … are also involved in almost all areas ”¦…
Chapter 7
… Whites representing the six and a half million Africans in Parliament also make a few fine speeches and appeals which are simply ignored by the government…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… thing for Nationalist M.P's to raise the question in Parliament and to call for inquiries into the extent to which … the select committee would produce a…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… industry point out that the government policy as stated in parliament earlier that year, is to reduce the historical …
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… seats, binging their number up to 105 in the national parliament. The election results proved that the English were …
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… 22 March 1960 – Prime Minister Verwoerd addresses parliament and claims that the protests have nothing to do …