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ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… He lost support and was defeated in the 1924 general election. This gave Hertzog's Nationalist Party and the …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… new turn in 1948. The National Party won the whites-only election in 1948 and began systematically to entrench its …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… for the executive, despite being conservative. The 1989 election lost the NP 37 seats, some to the Democratic Party , …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… Midlands. On 15 April 1953, the NP held a second general election and was returned to power. The Liberal Association …
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… to refuse to collaborate, to refrain from voting in an election ”¦”,3 but the fight for full and equal rights had … likely to alter electoral outcomes…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… the leaders of the political parties. In the Fauresmith by-election the National Party retains its seat against a double … P.J. Ref: RP 90-81 1981 The…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… with the all-white Labour Party, defeating Smuts’ in the election that followed the 1922 miners’ strike. The Pact … Party (HNP) was reasonably short and…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… qualification. Indians as Non-Whites could both stand for election and send members to Parliament. In the South African …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… Warren Harding, elected in 1920, said soon after his election, “I have said to the people we meant to have less of … of the previous decade, Franklin…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… a majority of the seats in the 1953 South African General Election. The Black Labour Relations Regulation Act (Black … stoppage of work by Blacks to coincide…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… a member of both the CPSA and the Transvaal ANC, sent a leaflet to ANC members, calling for the need to organise …
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… Andile Mngxitama’s BLF faces a legal challenge over its election registration due to its explicit prohibition of … for that year. It recently (unsuccessfully…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… following World War Two. 5 The National Party won the election of 1948 on a platform that proposed an answer to … and Lammie Snyman, racist censorship…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… must vote’”. [48] After the first South African democratic election, Mabuza was elected to the new Parliament, but … [50] In 2004, ten years after the first…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… bomb explodes at the Laudium home of a Pretoria municipal election candidate. 15 November, Barend Strydom kills 5 …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… this period is the National Party winning the white election in 1948 and the process of instituting formal …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… were ignored. The reason is that after the 1948 general election the Nationalist Party (NP) emerged victorious and …
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 … unity’ for a defined period after the…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… two-third majority in the senate. The Act provided for the election of two White provincial councillors in Cape Town by …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… the CPSA at the third Congress in 1924. At the time of the election, a senior member of the CPSA, Solomon Buirski …
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… 1948 May 26 , The National Party (NP) wins election and immediately introduces apartheid (separateness) …
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… invited to participate, it set preconditions such as the election of a constituent assembly, solving of the "land …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… with a larger majority than in the 1958 general election. 12 May, The General Law Amendment Act provides for … The Prime Minister announces that there will…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… with the NP during the transition. If ANC would win the election then it would have preference on most matters, … Mandela since he announced that he would…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… Party of the Soviet Union Congress. 4 October, The second election for the four Coloured representatives in Parliament … South African holds its first …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… Lembede dies suddenly. He is 33 years old. 1948 A general election puts the National Party into power and apartheid is … enlist their support. The township…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… but no one was executed. After the first democratic election in April 1994, a new constitutional dispensation was … ten, or even twenty years before the…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… De Klerk announces the date for the first democratic election to be held on the 26th of April 1994. 15 October, …