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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… 5-6 May, In anticipation of the Whites-only general election on 6 May, the UDF calls for a national stayaway. … More than 100 incidents of violence were…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… by South African police in Cape Town while protesting election. 1990 22 July, 19 people are killed, allegedly by … is the first incident of this nature post…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… held its first democratic elections . The ANC won the election with 62.65 % of the vote. The National Party (NP) …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… and Development Programme (RDP) which was part of the election platform of the African National Congress in the …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… of Biko’s death. Prime Minister Vorster then called an election, and a large majority of White voters called for …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Union and the Nationalist Party coming into power - (1910-1948). Jan van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist …
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… Prosecutor, Moreno-Ocampo, to refer Kenya due to the 2007 election violence. The Prosecutor also referred Côte d’Ivoire … the Rome Statute – to the ICC in…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… resistance. White politics took a dramatic new turn in 1948. The National Party won the whites-only election in 1948 and began systematically to entrench its…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… at the end of its name. After a (mostly) free and fair election in which the MPLA received the majority of votes, UNITA accused the leading party of…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… © infrasors.co.za . After the ANC won the first democratic election in 1994, Popo Molefe was appointed the premier of … March 1999, just a few weeks before…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to contest one or more constituencies in the general election. Trade unionism Comrade ES Sachs, reporting on the …
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… have to be publicly elected to government. In the 1932 election the Nazis won 37% of the votes, and Hitler was …
Local Government
… on its agenda, in terms of the Gold Laws, was the election of a nine-member ‘Digger’s Committee’ to draw up … a five-member ‘Gezondheids Comite’, or Sanitary…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC 1948 Tambo serves his law articles with a company of lawyers, … Ababa Delivers an address, Black…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… seats in the parliament to push their agenda. In the election of 1948, the Nationalist Party ran on platforms of White …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… leave the SL. When the National Party (NP) seized power in 1948, its policy of Apartheid challenged the SL which had …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… necessary after the National Party (NP) came to power in 1948, and racial segregation and discrimination was …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… XII (1936-1956), the National Party came to power in 1948, and apartheid legislation began to be introduced. When …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… was only the coming to power of the Nationalist Party in 1948 which temporarily stilled the voices of legitimate Black … and to establish permanent homes in…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… a commission to draft new laws in November, and a general election in March 1856 increased the number of Volksraad … sides came to an agreement, and a fresh…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… to protect colonial farmers of all kinds, to secure the election to Parliament of candidates who would represent …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… and seize weapons, although campaigning for the impending election was permitted. Conclusion The State of Emergency …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… been very low in the first place. The effectiveness of the election campaign revitalised the UDF and MDM as it became …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… on their previous lot. After the National Party won the 1948 election on an apartheid ticket, the government moved … approval of six wards, and on 29 May set…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… when the Apartheid government that had come to power in 1948 began forcing women to carry passes. After visiting …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… 1950s the National Party (NP), which came into power in 1948 introduced harsh and oppressive laws towards blacks. In …
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… it was seeking also to trap liberals in its net. Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned thousands of …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… Walter plays a key role in re-shaping the ANC after WW2. 1948 The election victory of the Nationalist government precludes …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… self governing status. Soon after, a provisional election was held where Josias Philippus Hoffman was chosen … as the official residence for the President of…