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South African Constitution 1996
… May 1994 and October 1996 drafting and completing the new constitution. The new Constitution was the embodiment of the vision of … and for human rights. The…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… 1994 to mark the end of apartheid rule and establish a new Constitutional order. This year, 2014, marks 20 years of … of their White compatriots. Today South…
Mandela: Message to India
… organised by the Indian National Social Action Forum (New Delhi, June 11, 1994), Nelson Mandela sent a message in … of the Indian tri-colour to signify the…
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
… for black people would only be discussed once the two new colonies could govern themselves. Financial help would be provided for poor citizens. The two new…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… and white minority rule and the establishment of a new democratic government led by Nelson Mandela and a new state subject to a new constitution. The…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… with a state of emergency, police raids and arrests – and new, more draconian legislation – they played their part in … groups, in consonance with the United…
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… vision of and for South Africa has matured. This new art cu lt u re has had to negotiate the many complex … is the J ohannesburg to Soweto train…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… and pushed into become a souce of cheap labour for the new capatilist state and in particular for the mining and … exclusion of Africans, Coloured and…
BiographyWangari Maathai
… Massachusetts in 1990; Hobart & William Smith Colleges, New York in 1994; the University of Norway in 1997; Yale …
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… as a young man he took up transport riding to and from the new diamond fields around Kimberley. He married Jacoba … and Kliprivier before withdrawing to…
Independent Electoral Commission
… and at the provincial level for legislatures for all nine new provinces. Elections were held on 26-29 April 1994 under … mandate to sit as a Constitutional…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela, (Cape Town) New Word City Editors, (2010), Nelson Mandela's Leadership … at South Africa's First Black President ’, …
PlaceGraaff-Reinet
Set in a twist of the Sundays River, the Great Karoo town of Graaff-Reinet is one of the oldest towns in South Africa, dating back to the Great Trek, between…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… and all those people had. I was really determined that New York would be my destination.’ [v] A few months after … (2009). ‘Hugh Masekela: Strength in Music…
Defining Black Consciousness
… from the normal which is white. It is a manifestation of a new realization that by seeking to run away from themselves … black. It seeks to infuse the black…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the …
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… to promote this suggestion. In Verwoerd’s view the new division should be only between those that gave their … 'race'. He soon abandoned attempts to co…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… of the Second World War could never happen again. This new, post-war world would be one of justice, dignity and peace. The cornerstone of this new vision was…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… regime to the people as a whole. This will usher in a new era characterised by the complete eradication of the … not have the immediate capacity to overthrow…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… single they released might as well have been recorded in New York or Detroit,” historian John Mason concludes. “The … with Duke Ellington as “not a question…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… then became an official language and the country got a new flag. The Pact Government (1924-1938) After the Pact … Government's 1924 election victory, South…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… political legacy that the constitution of the ‘new' South Africa is founded on essentially those liberal …
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… America. This part of the world is also known as the 'New World' and the 'Western hemisphere', because it lies west … and are all the facts (like dates and…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… passed away. She rushed to the South African consulate in New York; the man at the desk took her passport and stamped … their classes with high grades, were…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… , 1990 - 1994. The mission of the GNUwas to oversee a new South African Constitution , as well asto radically … politics in August 1996, and that the NP had…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… from Black people and led to the formation and growth of new political bodies. British segregationist legislation … of 20 000 members. Discrimination…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… about 100 telephones installed in houses and businesses. A new newspaper hit the streets, in 1912, The Northern Star & … of Penzance were staged in 1913. In…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… the fourth highest country for the murder rate of women. [5] These protests mainly occurred outside Parliament in Cape … [7] Globally, these protests…
ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… panel discussions enticed lively debate, identified new avenues for research and opened up new partnerships and collaborative opportunities between …
ArticleNational and Provincial Elections - 2024 - South Africa
… Introduction President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the new members of the National Executive, for the seventh … with 32 Ministers and 43 Deputy Ministers, …