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… and had no homeland until modern Israel was created in 1948. Image: many Jews travel to Jerusalem in Israel to pray …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… low cost houses for the growing African urban population. 1948-1979 During this period the Apartheid government passed …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… against the system. After South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994, Nelson Mandela chose Mbeki to be the …
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… writing process began in 1994, after the first democratic election.Two years later, the CA adopted the final …
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… be forged anew. Petrus Mashishi was born on the 28th June 1948 in Alexandra. After leaving school he was taken on by … he remained active as a shop stewards…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… the National Party could have done it. If I had lost the election when P. W. Botha resigned as leader of the party and … under any one of those who opposed…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… Racialism in Trade Union Movement During 1947 and 1948, "pure" white Trade Unions such as the S.A. Mine … coming into power of the Nationalist Party…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism , 1934-1948. Johannesburg, Ravan, 1983. Pampallis, John. Foundations …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… 1930 a new factory is opened in Harrower Road and in 1948 its operations move to Neave Township. August, The … bread is suspended, and only permitted again…
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…
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…
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… country became known as Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. In a general election the following year, Zimbabwe emerged as an …
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… politics, winning a seat in Parliament in the 1906 general election. He became the Chancellor of Exchequer (Cabinet …
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… government in 1906, in preparation for a national election to be held in 1910. Milner’s administration played …
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
… David Levin later purchased the land in 1948 and gave it the name Twyfelfontein. Situated 100 …
Bibliographical note and further reading
… Evolution of the Policy Towards the Indians in Natal, 1943-1948' (M.A., Univ. of Natal, 1982). Indian politics after … M. Carter's The Politics of Inequality…
PlaceNyanga Township
… one of an additional location at Nyanga was completed in 1948. The first 210 houses, later called the Old Location, … between the government and local…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… ANC in Natal was a fractured organisation and Champion’s election marked the ousting of Dube. From 1944, Dube’s …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II, the paramount chief of Lesotho, is killed in an accident
… his control in the country after his party lost the election. Moshoeshoe went into temporary exile in the …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… In the same year, South Africa held its first democratic election. With the process of re-constructing post-apartheid …
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… life to fight injustice and call for peace. On 30 January 1948 Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fundamentalist. …
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…
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…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… ensure that the NP won sufficient support at a non-racial election. The plan was to form a new centrist party, and in … for the party. In other words, the…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… foreseen. Except for a temporary set-back in the general election of 1970, the National Party grew steadily stronger. …
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
… Dr Yahya A JJ Jammeh. In September 2006 Jammeh won the election to return as President for a third five-year term. …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Committee (TASC) be established to oppose the SAIC election. The Committee actively campaigned for a boycott of …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… present committee was elected to office after a vigorous election campaign by the unanimous vote of 7,633 members …
ArchiveUDF Campaign Manual - Section B: "How We Are Struggling - The Methods"
… and campaigns 25 Campaign planner and map 28 Anti-election strategy 30 Signature campaign 35 How to approach … for door-to-door canvassing, signature…