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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… during this year are: Resumption of multilateral talks in CODESA. Ensuring a climate of free political activity in all … inclusive as possible. Our call to…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… 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…
Liberation
… the interests of the rural poor enabled the constitutional negotiators on the protection of property rights, and on the …
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… When the ‘ New South Africa' was ushered in through CODESA, the land question was not resolved. The new Constitution which came as a result of the CODESA…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… and from such a strong source, it would have confirmed to negotiators on all sides that ethnic “homelands” would …
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… to the full. One of the fruits of this process has been Codesa. In a matter of days we enter Codesa 2. We in the ANC are determined that something …
EventThe 'Afrikaner Volksfront' is founded
Afrikaner Volksfront flag A new coalition made up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front (Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF) was…
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… to negotiate in earnest. The ANC had withdrawn from CODESA in protest against the Boipatong massacre on 17th June … leader of all the democratic forces of…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… the form of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). The SACP continued to play an important role in the …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President's Council a chance
The leader of the New Republic Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party was ready to give the President's Council a chance as a start on the road to a…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa's longest wage strike
South Africa's longest and biggest strike was organised by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), led by Cyril Ramaphosa. At the time it was the second…
EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to distil violent clashes between members of the two…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… (September 1991) and the start of formal negotiations at CODESA I (December 1991) and CODESA II (May 1992). The second year of destabilisation, … Accord and…
EventThe fall of the Berlin wall
In the aftermath of World War 2 Germany was partitioned into East and West Germany. The East was placed under the control of the Soviet Union while West…
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… ANC. 1991 Patricia De Lille leads the PAC delegation at CODESA.Sonia Bunting returns from exile and continues … National Coalition is formally launched…
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… for this country. The negotiations the ANC pursued at Codesa with the apartheid National Party were not in accord …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… meeting of a Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) will be held near Johannesburg on 20 and 21 December … such as neutral international conveners…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
… first meeting of Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) on 20 December 1991, and the adoption of the vitally … of our Constitution on 8 May 1996…
Apartheid power in crisis
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The year 1989 will go down as a watershed year in the…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… advance in the multilateral negotiations when our negotiators meet in Bali in December this year. Together, we …
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… stopped supporting Mobutu. On 29 April 1997 American negotiators met Mobutu, bearing a letter from President …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Launch of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) 21 March, Hani, along with Trevor Manuel and Moses …
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
It was in South Africa that Gandhi developed, between 1910 and 1913, his Satyagraha philosophy of passive resistance, and it was on Tolstoy Farm that he and…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… importance; maintenance planning and skilled contract negotiators. [5] From 2005-2006 warnings about a power crisis …
Negotiations, the ANC Vision of a New South African and the Indian Community Keynote Address by the President of the African National Congress, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… economy demand that this be so. Over the last few days our negotiators have been locked in intense bilateral discussions …
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The article seeks to contribute to the development of new…
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
It is 20 years since the first Truth and Reconciliation hearing took place... The TRC was a unique political compromise forged during the years of…