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EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… the form of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), ensuring a climate for free political activity in …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… even after the Convention for a Democratic South Africa's (CODESA) had been initiated. …
EventLucas Mangope, Bophuthatswana homeland leader is deposed
… year. In December 1991, like other homeland leaders at the Codesa talks, Mangope attempted to present Bophuthatswana as …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. The ANC rejected De Klerk's proposals as …
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… would lead the United Nations observer delegation to CODESA. Mr. Sotirios Mousouris, Assistant Secretary-General … and the European Community were also…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… withdrew from the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). At the time, it was said that the attack was …
The Democratic Party (DP)
… was chosen as the first Management Committee Chairman of Codesa. Both in Codesa and the subsequent Multi-Party Negotiating Process …
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president Omar al Bashir. Bashir had…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… ANC Constitution Committee, ANC Land Commission, CODESA, comparative law, constitutional law Heinz Klug. Image … South Africa negotiations would soon follow…
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… to this issue, the ANC threatened to pull out of the Codesa negotiation talks. This in turn prompted the Minister … [Accessed: 05 April 2010]|Meer, F. (ed) …
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… out in the Declaration of Intent we adopted together at Codesa I, namely; "5. to set in motion the process of drawing … matter of one of the five working…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He was one of the last of a generation of black South…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… delegate at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. In 1994, Madlala-Routledge received a degree … of being derailed at the time. In…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.2 1992
… and Graphics: Landscape, Karen Herber; Demoiselles de Codesa, Vincent Baloyi; On the Day of the Festival, Nhlanla …
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… 'power sharing' arrangement. That is why they insisted at CODESA II that the Constituent Assembly should take decisions … powers, duties and functions to be…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various political parties,…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… session of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA I) began on December 21 1991, at the World Trade …
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… negotiations. Initial interactions led to the formation of CODESA I and II, culminating in South Africa’s first …
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… Zwelithini and the ANC continued to widen until and after CODESA in 1991 and 1992. It was only later in 1992, when …
ArticleZulu
… Buthelezi and King Goodwill won the agreement of ANC negotiators just before the April 1994 elections that, with …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
… question in relation to Mr Mandela. That is that when CODESA deadlocked and you had both Mr Mandela and Mr de Klerk … Looking at the negotiating process…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… spell in exile in Lusaka, he represented the SACP at the Codesa negotiations. He has served on the SACP central …
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the established of a ‘democratic … on which the ANC has decided to break off…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… and attended the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), where he served as the chair of the ANC’s …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… sitting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) is a great achievement for all South Africans. … an All-Party Congress which was realised in…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… made in the recent period. Some examples of these are: the CODESA Declaration of Intent (which establishes national … settlement would take the form of multi…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… officer. Acting on his own initiative, he hustled the negotiators into an upstairs strong room and locked them out …
ArchiveEstablishing the Constitutional Assembly
After South Africa’s first democratic elections, the newly elected parliament would double as a Constitutional Assembly and would be responsible for writing…
Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference Prague, 26 May 1992
… Mr. Chairperson. Despite the indecisive outcome of Codesa II, which stalled precisely because the National Party … both in the context of the five working…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… led by the late Van Zyl Slabbert. This was a precursor to Codesa, the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, and … As many have noted, not only was Mbeki…