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The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… © infrasors.co.za . After the ANC won the first democratic election in 1994, Popo Molefe was appointed the premier of … March 1999, just a few weeks before…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… at the end of its name. After a (mostly) free and fair election in which the MPLA received the majority of votes, UNITA accused the leading party of…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… when he refused to take part in the first democratic election scheduled for 27 April 1994. Furthermore, the period … violence and vigilantism, which made it…
ArchiveEstablishing the Constitutional Assembly
After South Africa’s first democratic elections, the newly elected parliament would double as a Constitutional Assembly and would be responsible for writing…
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… have to be publicly elected to government. In the 1932 election the Nazis won 37% of the votes, and Hitler was …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to contest one or more constituencies in the general election. Trade unionism Comrade ES Sachs, reporting on the …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… it. A devout Christian and Methodist Church preacher, in 1948 Chief Luthuli was invited to tour on a lecture and … discrimination. Little did he know that in…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… National Congress, even used Vulindlela in its 1999 election campaign. The timing of Vulindlela was also …
PlaceDurban International Airport
… Airport until 1994 – the year of the first Democratic election held in South Africa. This election was won by the ANC and Nelson Mandela was elected ……
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… regions—was established in South Africa and Namibia from 1948 until 1990. In 1959. A maximum-security prison started …
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… of long and difficult negotiations followed by a national election. So the remark is not so far removed from reality as …
Local Government
… on its agenda, in terms of the Gold Laws, was the election of a nine-member ‘Digger’s Committee’ to draw up … a five-member ‘Gezondheids Comite’, or Sanitary…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC 1948 Tambo serves his law articles with a company of lawyers, … Ababa Delivers an address, Black…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… necessary after the National Party (NP) came to power in 1948, and racial segregation and discrimination was …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… XII (1936-1956), the National Party came to power in 1948, and apartheid legislation began to be introduced. When …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… leave the SL. When the National Party (NP) seized power in 1948, its policy of Apartheid challenged the SL which had …
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… seats in the parliament to push their agenda. In the election of 1948, the Nationalist Party ran on platforms of White …
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… remain committed to the undertakings we made in our 2004 Election Manifesto and this year`s January 8th statement. In … the twin evils of poverty and…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… was only the coming to power of the Nationalist Party in 1948 which temporarily stilled the voices of legitimate Black … and to establish permanent homes in…
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
… in 1989. Following South Africa's first democratic election in 1994, she was elected to Parliament and rose …
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… in February 1994 to vote in the country’s first democratic election. George Ponnen passed away in January 1996. …
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… but Zuma was the President of the ANC. After Zuma’s election, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) served him …
Address at the official opening of the ASB Congress on 28 June 1971 in the Aula, Pretoria
… a Republic. We strove for this ideal for years. In 1948 we came to power. Constitutionally and otherwise there … voters, they themselves never had the right…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Bashir accepted the results and said he would not seek re-election when his term expires in 2015. The Bush …
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… and after apartheid was brought to its formal end with the election of Nelson Mandela to be the first President of the …
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… reelected president with only 36 percent of the vote in an election marred by widespread violence and fraud. By 1997 …
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… violence to an end: • the control of violence during the election campaign; • the election itself; • acceptance of the election results. Violence during…
PlaceCameroon
… as well as economic development. However, with the election of current president Paul Biya in 1982 [vii] there … of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC) was…