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ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
… was based on the ideas of Rousseau and the American Constitution. It promised freedom to the people of France. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… a Constituent Assembly to draft and adopt a democratic constitution; a sovereign Interim Government/Transitional … and 21 December 1991 to discuss…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… 1994 27 April,South Africa's interim constitution which was adopted in November 1993 came into … in as Executive Deputy Presidents under a provision in the…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… sections of the African National Congress (ANC) - adopts a constitution which invites the affiliation of all African … Convention (AAC) issues a statement…
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… and HIV-treatment seems to be the most common. Under the Constitution of South Africa , women received formal …
ArticleThe Arniston
… National Monuments Council Act for shipwrecks (Gericke, 1983). This means that the ship, along with any other ship … Gericke, I., 1983. Grids and pumps for…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… inmates and township residents in the period 1978 to 1983. In townships across South Africa interactions between … The attack on students at the University…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… of sermons and addresses: 1982 – Crying in the Wilderness. 1983 – Hope & Suffering: Sermons and Speeches. 1989 – The …
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… Citizenship Act) No 26 of 1970 was repealed by the Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of …
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… again the UN elections planned for April 1979. From 1978-1983 SWAPO became increasingly successful with guerrilla … 52% of the vote. A committee immediately…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… the ANC’s creation of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983. The UDF would serve to unify the different factions of … of the Workers’ Charter can be seen…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… citizens’ rights are protected by the new South African constitution based on human rights. However, even though …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Glossary
… religion that are usually a part of the Christian Church. Constitution The system of laws and principles that a state, …
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… Greenwood Press, London. Page 34. ↵ [lix] Thornton, John. 1983. The Kingdom of Kongo: Civil War and Transition, … 4 (1977), pp. 507-530. Page 520. ↵ [lxi] …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson, published in 1983. He promotes the idea that a nation is a socially … in the country and elsewhere in the world…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… but under white minority rule. SWAPO drafts its own constitution requiring a unitary state and elected parliament … by a two-thirds majority of the…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… training in Odessa, Kishinev and Moscow. [iii] 1979 - 1983 Appointed chief representative of the ANC in Madagascar. …
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… January 8th, 1984 - The Year of the Women January 8th, 1983 - The Year of United Action January 8th, 1982 - A …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… legal system that would embody the values of a non-racial constitution that protected human rights. The Trial 1963-1964 … democratic elections of 1994 and…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… in South Africa has enshrined gender equality within the constitution and has given women ‘unprecedented political and … (Baden et al, 1998, p6). Customary…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… Women's Association. 11 May, Having referred the draft constitution for the Union of South Africa to the Parliaments … Free State Parliaments subsequently…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… the members of the National Convention publicised a draft constitution and a draft South Africa Act for a union. Two … to London to lobby opposition to the…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… the union were against the amendment of its discriminatory constitution, the formation of the local committees to … The conference adopted a Declaration of…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… coast) back to Namibia. 1998-1999 SWAPO amends the Constitution to allow Nujoma to stand for a third five-year …
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… of a commission were spelled out in a postamble to the Constitution: “”¦ there is a need for understanding but not …
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… in the women's charter were incorporated in the new constitution of the country and in the Bill of Rights. At the …
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… & Weil, (2002:94) ↵ [viii] ibid. p.99 ↵ [ix] Shain, (1983:4) ↵ [x] ibid. ↵ [xi] ibid. ↵ [xii] Burden & Weil, …
List of deaths in detention
… John Vorster Sq., Jhb John Vorster Sq., Johannesburg 70 3 1983 55. Mndawe, Simon 56. Malatji, Paris 08/03 05/07 23 23 …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… defeats South Vietnam. 1979 : USSR invades Afghanistan 1983 : Ronald Reagan proposes Star Wars 1989 : Soviet …
References and links: Local History
… [Accessed: 9 January 2015]. Smithsonian Education, (1983), “The Art to Zoo: History Close to Home: Creating your …