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ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… National Party (NP) government followed up its unexpected election victory in 1948 with a massive social restructuring …
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…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Hertzog tendency. In 1953 the NP fought its first general election after its 1948 victory. OPSA switched its support … Party – this after Jan Smuts’s South…
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…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… prepared go to the polls on 6 September of that year. This election provided De Klerk's government with a mandate to … proposals; it was also to be the last…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… a commission to draft new laws in November, and a general election in March 1856 increased the number of Volksraad … sides came to an agreement, and a fresh…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… The Nationalist Party (NP) wins a majority in the general election and introduces a policy of apartheid. 1949 Sobukwe …
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… to protect colonial farmers of all kinds, to secure the election to Parliament of candidates who would represent …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… and seize weapons, although campaigning for the impending election was permitted. Conclusion The State of Emergency …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… been very low in the first place. The effectiveness of the election campaign revitalised the UDF and MDM as it became …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… of R.V Selope Thema breaks away in a protest against his election. Thema did not trust neither Dr J Moroka nor the … stoppage of work by Blacks to coincide…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… self governing status. Soon after, a provisional election was held where Josias Philippus Hoffman was chosen … as the official residence for the President of…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… Even apart from that Dr. Malan will not risk another election before his term is over through his administration … strong feeling among some leaders that we…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… by the dissolution of the legislative bodies for a general election. In many ways, this Act was similar to Hertzog 's … the Transvaal Indians. This point was…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… introduced by the National Party in 1948 following their election success; the system was designed to withhold … and armed struggle (Lodge & Nasson, 1992)…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… and autonomy from central government control. In the 2004 election the IFP lost control of the province of …
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… Africans saw their first one-person-one-vote non-racial election in 1994. The Interim Constitution was restricted …
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 …
The Afrikaner Bond
… in the victory of the Nationalist Party (NP) in the election of 1948 , when the NP began to institute the … for: the Bond to put forward patriotic candidates…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
Ancient: Belonging to a period of history that is thousands of years in the past. BC: Before Christ. Used in the Christian calendar to show a particular…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president Omar al Bashir. Bashir had…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… over a mass rally in Johannesburg as part of the anti-election campaign. 11 May: On behalf of the ANC, Xuma … on the Youth League’s position – they would…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… agitation and indignation as heretofore. and, at the Cape election, to concentrate mainly on the Cape vote and the 101 …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… African President Jacob Zuma , who was standing for re-election as ANC president that same year. 2013 Zwelinzima …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of … was enforced by the National Party (NP)…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… and it was resolved to go ahead with the strike action. A leaflet was drawn up explaining the events leading up to the … assist in speaking to the white…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… Dr. A.B. Xuma issues a statement on the upcoming general election. 26 May, The National Party wins the most seats in the general election on its policy of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an …
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… He lost support and was defeated in the 1924 general election. This gave Hertzog's Nationalist Party and the …