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EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the State of the Nation address
On 16 February 2019, Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his first State of the Nation Address at the parliament as the newly elected president of South Africa. This…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA's first Executive President
South Africa's Prime Minister since 1978, P.W. Botha, was unanimously elected by eighty-eight members of the Electoral College to the office of first executive…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Organisation in 1948. It is the basis for human rights protection and … The white racist government that came to…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… leave through different exits. The Nana group win the election with 3,797 votes to 3,319. An important feature of … Indian Youth Congress. Zainab Asvat is…
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 …
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…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… Imam Rashied also facilitated political education and election-related discussions in 1994 just before the first … in the mid 1960s to late 1970s. The first…
Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944
… must resign and the Speaker must immediately conduct election. (e) Conference shall elect the President and his … The National Executive Committee shall…
Chapter 14
… the accusing finger being pointed at them. December, 1948, Conferences In view of the fact that these proposals … of the A.N.C. and the A.A.C., held on the…
EventDr. Nico Diederichs is inaugurated as South Africa’s third State President
Dr. Nicholaas Diederichs (Nico), former Finance Minister, was inaugurated as South Africa's third state president, in succession of President Jim Fouche…
EventDivision in the Coloured Representative Council deepens
… to it. While the Labour party won more seats in the CPRC election, the scale was tipped in favour of the Federal Party …
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…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… families, was pushed into the ANC's 2000 local government election manifesto by the Congress of South African Trade …
The kanga, womanhood and how Zuma's 2006 rape trial changed the meaning of the fabric by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail and Guardian), 10 Aug 2016
… young women protested in front of Zuma as he spoke at the election results ceremony, one of them held a placard that in …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the state banquet in honour of President Abdou Diouf Pretoria, 30 July 1996
… vote. (F) Every voter shall have the right to stand for election and to be elected to all legislative bodies. …
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… the Declaration by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 had a special significance. The failure of South Africa …
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… St John’s College in Johannesburg, which he attended from 1948 until 1957, and whose school history block is now named …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… accelerated when the National Party (NP) seized power in 1948. The NP led government began to vigorously implement the … pass laws in the Cape Peninsula, but…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… racism, particularly with the advent of apartheid in 1948. Countless Jews played significant roles in labour and … its anti-Semitic approach as it geared up…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… in South Africa The National Party come to power in 1948 and governed the country according to apartheid laws. … is racism? South Africa's population was…
Indian Community
… to the two year passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 when several thousand Indians courted arrest. Despite the protests, the act was passed in 1948…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… in choir for school. However after apartheid started in 1948 Makeba dropped out of school. She started her first job …
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 …
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… government of Namibia. SWAPO won the first independent election in 1989 and Sam Nujoma became the first president of …
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… active participation in government institutions. At this election, the first white 'coloured representatives' were to … the COD, as 'coloured representative'…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated … When the people of South Africa voted in this election, they voted to provide their…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… [x] Turning back the clock just over a decade, the year 1948 was one of the darkest for both the Palestinian and … people; truly an annus horribilis. For…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book