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10 YEARS PROJECT
… realisation of a Volkstaat, will gain in the forthcoming election. 4.1 The parties also agree that, to facilitate the …
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… Government of National Unity. After the first democratic election in 1994, 19,726,579 votes were counted and 193,081 …
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… village and township. The final stage would involve the election of delegates from each locality who would then meet …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… leaders in the then Union of South Africa. In 1948, the National Party under the leadership of DF Malan …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… The ascendancy to power of the Apartheid government in 1948 under the National Party (NP) took land dispossession …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… event as a proud accomplishment of the apartheid regime (1948-94) (Goodhew, xv-xvi). The South African government … 70). This initiative took place in full…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform … sometime between 1937 and 1951,…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… Africa Day on this date. After the first democratic election in 1994, South Africa joined the OAU on 23 May 1994. …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… signed in Washington D.C. on 1 January 1942. In 1948 the National Party (NP) came to power, introduced the … prepared go to the polls on 6 September of that…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
I first came into contact with Comrade Devadas Paul David in 1977, soon after a few of us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by his youthful…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Lords. Love of Labour Lost When the Labour Party won the election in 1964, Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced in … in Edinburgh in July 1970 and the…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… President Robert Mugabe vows to retire if he loses election. Zimbabwe July 30 2013 Robert Mugabe President Robert Mugabe wins the election by outright…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… crowds await the result of the first Parliamentary election of the Union of South Africa held on 15 September … republics and colonies, and only whites could…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… umbrella organization name, the SAIC. In September 1948, Dr. Naicker was elected as President of the SAIC and in …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… Africa holds local government elections. To read the ANC’s election manifesto click here . 2001 8 January, In the … ANCYL leader recently elected to head…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… Worldwide economic crisis Democratic victory in 1932 election FDR's New Deal …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… and the Olympic Movement itself. 22 April, The general election results in the return to power of the National Party for the sixth time since 1948, but with…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… and Louis Botha’s South African Party winning the first election to national government. The SAP stood for … your isolated white race’. Apartheid Ten years…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer Republics: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State). …
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…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… collection of stories, Mafeking Road , was published. 1948 Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) is possibly the most famous novel to have come out of … of black…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… learners in standard 4 and upwards it was decided that the election of a school committee should be left to the school … of apartheid, the National Party,…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… would later be replaced with the policy of apartheid in 1948. The 1913 Land Act set aside 7.5% of the land in South …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… as well as during the Apartheid period which begun in 1948. Race is defined as a social concept referring to a … ://welections.wordpress.com/guide-to-the…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… that he was not, in fact, a card-carrying member. 1948 The Path of Thunder is published in both England and the …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… of the World Health Organisation (WHO). 6 May, final election results announced by the Independent Electoral … Nelson Mandela announces he will not be…
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… members and would go on to win 8% of the votes in the 2009 election, leading to the party having 30 MPs in Parliament. …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… announced that they would only support leaders for re-election at the ANC’s 53rd National Conference, held in …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… formed to resist the measure. In 1981 when the Council's election took place only 10% of the Indian voters cast their …