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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 …
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… Citizenship Act) No 26 of 1970 was repealed by the Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… control of the TIC. Not even the intervention of the SAIC officials and Rama Rau could pave the way for a … to different aides of the Wemmer Sports Ground…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… economic sanctions. The 1983 amendments to the existing constitution were also resisted. Government intransigence and … opposition to the regime, in 1983,…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… effort to make reforms by introducing the tricameral constitution: three parliaments were set up, one each for … was to fight for the upliftment of women and…
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, …
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 …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress (SAIC) passed a resolution to hold a strike on 1 May 1950 to …
The Bill of Rights
… The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins at … with this section and the other…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… workers. 1946 8-12 February, Monty Naicker attends the SAIC conference in Cape Town. Though the radicals controlled … NIC and TIC, conservative factions…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… and 21 December 1991 to discuss constitutional principles, constitution-making body or process and transitional … would allay fears that it would…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… February 1969, during its fifteenth Annual Conference the constitution was altered in such a way as to debar Africans …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… Alliance, decided to plan a convention and draft a new constitution for South Africa. On 26 June 1955, a meeting was …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma, with the help of Bram Fischer , also drafts a new constitution for the ANC which allows membership of all … Riots. 6 February Representatives of the…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… sexual freedom as a fundamental human right in the new constitution. In 1996, South Africa's new Constitution made discrimination based on sexual orientation…
Article2016 in Review
… The ConCourt finds that Zuma did not uphold or defend the Constitution in regards to the Public Protector’s findings on … - 20 years since President Nelson…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… by the full range of rights guaranteed in the new Constitution - the rights to life, dignity, privacy and … African society in line with the ideals expressed…
ArticleWomens Rights
… by the full range of rights guaranteed in the new Constitution - the rights to life, dignity, privacy and … African society in line with the ideals expressed…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… joined a delegation of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) sent to the 1946 session of the United Nations General … raised by the Government of India…