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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Biography 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, …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… Dr. A.B. Xuma issues a statement on the upcoming general election. 26 May, the National Party (NP) contested the …