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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… our people. Thirty years ago, the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act was introduced in 1983, creating the Tricameral Parliament, an attempt by the ……
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Peoples Convention held at the Lay Ecumenical Centre, Edendale, Pietermaritzburg from 8th July 1972 to 10th July 1972
… 1972 to 10th July 1972. The convention discussed the draft constitution, the report of the urban and rural politics …
Burkina Faso: Key Facts and History by Angela Thompsell updated 13 February 2016
… Saye Zerbo (1980-1982), then Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo(1982-1983), and finally Thomas Sankara (1983-1984) - all of whom had been military leaders. Thomas …
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… struggles and the disastrous Sahelian drought. A new constitution, approved in 1974, created a one-party state and … arrested President Moussa Traoré and…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
… for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, the Constitution, and the vision and standards it sets out for … alleging that Zuma has broken the law…
EventWalter Sisulu convicted of inciting protest
… African workers in protest of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act of 1961. This incitement was seen as an …
EventMahamane Ousmane is overthrown
… state-run radio station that Ousmane was under arrest, the constitution suspended, and that the temporary national …
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
… in the DRC and the method of translation used for the 1983 translation of the Bible into Afrikaans. The Afrikaans …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… , Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo died on 19 September, 1983, after having lapsed into a coma. The African National …
EventGerrie Coetzee becomes the first South African boxer to win a world heavyweight title
… On 23 September 1983, Gerrie Coetzee, went up against American Michael Dokes …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… and 21 December 1991 to discuss constitutional principles, constitution-making body or process and transitional … would allay fears that it would…
Speak - the voice of the community
… in mass meetings to reject the proposed Government constitution was documented in detail. …
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… negotiations between the French and the Neo-Destour (“New Constitution”) party, which was backed by the trade unions. …
EventRamaphosa announces his decision to leave parliament
… his intention to resign from Parliament once the final Constitution is agreed upon. He will become deputy executive …
ArchiveFederation or desolution
… that South Africa should move towards forming a federal constitution and that the" Verwoerdian Utopia has fallen to …
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… on the rights that we enjoy that are enshrined in the Constitution and how we exercise them. We have a Constitution with a Bill of Rights, which incorporates…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… a Secretariat, a report from the Lenin School, the Party Constitution, reports from regions and districts, trade …
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… South Africans, to draw up a new non-racial and democratic Constitution. Such a convention would discuss our national … and the all white Parliament is…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… local government and presidential assent in September 1983 to the new tricameral constitution. Whilst in many respects the UDF was a product … as many…
ArchiveAPDUSA Bulletin 2: Aug. 22 elections and you
… and is seen as the only method of rejecting the new constitution. And in doing so, the pamphlet claims that the …
EventANC leads march through central Durban
… Zwelithini further told his subjects that the interim constitution would deny the Zulu nation its claim to …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Alliance, decided to plan a convention and draft a new constitution for South Africa. On 26 June 1955, a meeting was …
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Through the Lens Staffrider (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1983), 36; and Transcript of conversations with Omar Badsha, … the Lens," Staffrider …
EventAgreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached
… Gqozo later issued a decree amending the homeland's constitution to allow sovereignty to be relinquished. …
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… became the organizing secretary of the National Forum in 1983. In 1986 he got involved in the administration an …
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 June 1983. …
EventPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka sworn in as UN- Women Executive Director
… Organisation of Women (NOW). NOW was formed in December 1983 and became an affiliate of the United Democratic Front …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… Island prisoner Billy Nair and Dorothy Nyembe. In August 1983, Boesak and his comrades launched the UDF at Mitchells …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… change as part of his reform measures. The 1961 constitution made the head of state position more symbolic … than politically potent. Botha reviewed this in…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… relinquish control of its African colonies. In 1961 a new constitution which provided for an advisory Executive … bombs went off at the Maseru reservoir. On…