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ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… and after democratization. The 1996 South African Constitution incorporated customary law into the South … ensuing legislative tensions between customary law…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… of the programme Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and all ANC Officials, ANC NEC members, Vice-President of COSATU and the Leadership … laid the foundation…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… vindication of Abdurahman's political legacy that the constitution of the ‘new' South Africa is founded on …
ArchiveConstituent Assembly and Interim Government
… Congress Department of Political Education, on defining a constitution, what kind of constitution the ANC would like to see in South Africa, how it could be …
BiographyNana Sita
… Congress and the escalation of repression, leaders of the ANC decided to undertake an armed struggle, taking care even … Chief Albert Lutuli, the revered…
BiographyVejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
… as Medical Commander at the African National Congress (ANC) National Conference in 1991 and at the Congress for a …
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
… and warned. After the African National Congress (ANC) came into power in 1994 , Ames testified at the Truth …
BiographyAbdullah Ibrahim
… the Soweto Student Uprising, Abdullah arranged an illegal ANC benefit concert; shortly after, he returned again to New …
BiographyCharles Nupen
… Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC). In the early 1990s, Nupen was asked to chair the …
BiographyFrederik van Zyl Slabbert
… In 1987 he re-entered politics and began contact with the ANC in exile, which resulted in the Dakar conference between …
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
… having retired as Bishop of Zululand, he broke with the ANC and accepted office as National Chairperson of the …
BiographyErnest Cole
… being used extensively by the African National Congress (ANC) in their newsletters and magazines such as Sechaba. Some …
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… and politics only after the African National Congress (ANC) and other organisations were unbanned and after Nelson …
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
… maintaining the exceptional bonds that grew between the ANC and CP. He was also a crucial member of the collective …
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… nearly two years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to address the obstacles preventing … a united South Africa, could draft and adopt a…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… drafted in from Vlakplaas (a farm in Pretoria where former ANC guerrillas were recruited to join the Security Police as … the other three killers were from…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… in exile in India. Maulvi Cachalia had helped set up an ANC office in Delhi. In April 1967, Timol arrived in London … and help build underground structures…
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… This phase would include a multi-person presidency and a constitution-drafting parliament. All participants in CODESA … proposals. Though the African…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP leader Chief Gatsha … left with no choice after the African National…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both … (NNP), was disbanded and some of its members joined the ANC. NNP leader…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… The Pretoria Minute 6 August 1990 The government and the ANC have held discussions at the Presidency, Pretoria, today 6 August 1990. 1. The Government and…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… South Africa is heading for failure. If fail it does, the ANC will inevitably get most of the blame but there will also … – and which has De Klerk’s…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… boycotts, strikes and other defiance tactics. In 1949, the ANC adopted this programme, which represented a radical … organisation and execution of the…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white … formed an organization called The Women's Defence of the Constitution League…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… than government institutions. [vii] Section 212 of the Constitution of South Africa states that: (1) National … lower positions. [xx] Traditional leadership…
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… the public and to make sure the democratic laws of the Constitution are kept. They also have to check that the Cabinet does its job and does not go against…
Foreword - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… SOUTH AFRICAN-GOVERNMENT/NATIONAL PARTY TAKING NOTE of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 200 of 1993 … of Agreement between the African…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… universal political franchise ultimately resulted in a new constitution and general election in 1954 and saw an …
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… from jail to a meeting in Lusaka, Zambia, with the ANC's national executive committee. When the South African …