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ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… Under the leadership of Dr DF Malan , the National Party (NP) supported by strong Afrikaner nationalist sentiment was … Smuts and his United Party (UP)…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… effective June 30, 1996. In the weeks leading up to the NP's formal departure from the executive branch, NP leaders repeatedly tried to assure voters that…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… of General Barry Hertzog, forming the National Party (NP) in 1914. The new Union had no place for Black people, … Land dispossession lies at the heart of…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… of General Barry Hertzog, forming the National Party (NP) in 1914. The new Union had no place for Black people, … Land dispossession lies at the heart of…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… the general election of September that year. However, the history of the DP goes back to 1959 when a number of liberal … year, in which the DP improved its…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… to their traditional political affiliations. Hertzog’s NP, formed in 1915, represented a fusion of the interests of … support of White workers in the cities…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… decided to go into exile after they had been banned. The NP government thought that banning the ANC and PAC would stop … managed to suppress oppression. As…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the … the Apartheid government in 1948 under the National Party (NP) took land…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Hertzog broke away to form the National Party. The NP did well in the 1915 election, reflecting the discontent … with the policies of Botha and Smuts among…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… . The article also illustrates how the Nationalist Party (NP) had a clear political strategy to consolidate the … Transvaal, on 21 March 1960 , was a turning…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Introduction This feature examines the history of forced removals in Johannesburg up to the … to carry the motion proposed by the Nationalist Party (NP) that…
ArticleA White Referendum
… voted ‘yes’ in the referendum. Business also supported the NP, believing that an overwhelming rejection of the new …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… from the 1976/7 provincial congress of the National Party (NP), and once it became a reality in 1984, it unwittingly …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… in 1934 when JBM Hertzog merged the National Party (NP) with Jan Smuts ' South African Party (SAP), to form the United Party (UP). Radical members of the NP…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… the time of the elections in 1948. The Nationalist Party (NP) of D. F. Malan promised not only to institutionalize … to flare up sporadically in certain…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… Amendment Act of 1952 is passed, destined to provide the NP government with the legal mechanism to remove Sophiatown …
ArticleZulu
… early as the eleventh century - see South Africa's general history timeline . Language, culture and beliefs: The Zulu … group. The word Zulu means "Sky" and…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… The moment which changed the path of South African history came after long and tension-ridden negotiations held … by the ANC with 62.65 % of the vote. The…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… became the scene of the most sustained uprising in the history of the country. Strike activity on the rise A strike … February, Botha resigned as leader of…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… after the 1948 general election the Nationalist Party (NP) emerged victorious and had a different set of priorities. The NP government was committed to…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… P W Botha. Other secret meetings between the ANC and NP representatives took place outside the country. For … Pieter de Lange and several top ANC leaders…
Article1994 Cabinet
… South Africa FW de Klerk , 1994 until July 1996 when the NP withdrew from the Cabinet. Thabo Mbeki , from 1994. From …
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… its seats from 17 to 26. And even within the ruling NP itself was divided between verkramptes (hardliners) and …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… reality imposes a central role for the ANC and the NP in the transition. The ANC is the custodian of the peace process - while the NP is the party in power…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… that year, in which the DP improved its position while the NP lost seats both to the DP and to the right-wing …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… Kwazulu which was offered to them by the National Party (NP) . But hostility between Inkatha and the UDF often became … in the defeat of apartheid in Namibia…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… Mbete-Kgositsile has played a major and vital role in the history of South African politics and the impact that women … Peter. 1960. "Sharpeville Massacre."…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… legislation of the 1913 Land Act. When the National Party (NP) was formed in 1915, most farmers in the OFS left the …
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… concern and increased suppression from the National Party (NP) government. The negative thing for the PAC was that …
Zulu Community
… focus on the Zulu communities in Durban. However, the history of these communities is inextricably linked to the pre-colonial history, colonial history and…