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The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… written by representatives of the people, determined by an election. These opposing visions made it difficult for … that it may have to give up the power it…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 5 August 1991
… by the time negotiations end. POM Well if there was an election at the end of negotiations, what kind of government … POM So if at the end of…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
Steve ‘Kalamazoo’ Mokone was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. He became the first black professional footballer to play in Europe, when he signed for the…
EventThe 'Afrikaner Volksfront' is founded
Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front (Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF) was…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
… in June, we looked at this long history of violence from 1948 to the present, which has remained unabated, which has … being made of a reform of the…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
After South Africa's first national democratic elections in April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first democratic President at the Union…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… repression of the 1946 mine strike, followÂed by the 1948 NP victory, angered and radicalised broader layers of … the United Party and other capitalist…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… We would like to congratulate Comrade Motlanthe on his election as the State President. We will support him … be clear about our strategic objectives in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded an honorary doctorate University of Zululand, 30 May 1998
… voice of dissent which roared in the build-up to the 1994 election has been subdued". It went on to complain of this as … it is also because we know that…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… president of the ANC in 1930; and his unsuccesful bid for election to the Native Representative Council. That he was an … the last months of his stay in…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… and autonomy from central government control. In the 2004 election the IFP lost control of the province of …
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… Volk, a party of the Afrikaners in the Transvaal wins the election and forms a government to take part in the …
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Ethiopia is Zion and the Promised Land and in 1948 Selassie granted them land in the Rift Valley for a …
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This … was that segregationist measures passed before 1948 were less…
South African and World leaders
… where Albertina Sisulu was the only women present. In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she … that keeps Blacks and Whites apart…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… caused intense anger in Black communities. From 1939 to 1948 South Africa participated in the Second World War and … that Passes be abolished they remained…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… locate the core material on the anti-apartheid movement, 1948-1976 by typing in keywords such as Rivonia Trial, … SA history, mainly during the Apartheid…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… being made by the union to the Smit Commission. It was an election year and Smuts (careful not to commit himself to … a month before the National Party came…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… it was seeking also to trap liberals in its net. Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned thousands of …
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… the country according to rigid definitions of race between 1948-1991. These policies reached their apotheosis in the …
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General Pretoria, 18 August 1998
… realise the priorities of the mandate which derives from election and ongoing interaction with civil society. One of …
De Klerk pays tribute to Mandela’s ‘unique contribution’
… speech, after the ANC's victory in our first nonracial election on April 27 1994, De Klerk congratulated Mandela on …
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… photography. Goldblatt began his photographic career in 1948, the year the National Party first took power, and for …
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… vibrant, harmonious pirit was all but crushed when, in 1948, the National Party was Elected to Power and the …
PlaceRooigrond
… move Africans from Machaviestad, but this was not done. In 1948 the government issued the first notice of the state’s …
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… tool after the National Party came into power in the 1948 elections when white Afrikaners were given preference in …
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
… the falsehood and telling the Bantu the truth. The election talk goes on as though it were a question of … - and under the new Bill provision is made for the…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… Nationalist Party Government since it came into power in 1948, is the largest in the Unions history. The number … design it has been working on since it…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… furthest south is called South Africa. It is the year 1948. A law promoting Apartheid has just been passed. A … of the majority group. This belief system did…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
Analysis of the role of the SACP in formulating the development policies of the ANC: The case of the National Development Plan (NPD) Co-Authors: Lolonga…