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ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… two British colonies of Natal and the Cape Province, the constitution explicitly excluded Blacks from participating in … of this objective was the passing of…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… can learn about the basic human rights instilled in the Constitution and relate them to their own circumstances. … way process. They cannot be expected to…
ArticleA White Referendum
… held a referendum to gauge White opinion on the new constitution and tricameral parliament – it baulked at … prove disastrous for business and the economy…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… a “fast unto death” to protest the newly proposed Indian constitution. It granted separate electorates to Hindus, … because it would write caste…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… COSATU spends about R2 million campaigning for the ANC. After a decline in the vote towards the ANC, General secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi warns the ……
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… for the delay in commencing multi-party negotiations. The ANC did not accept this, and on 5 April 1991 issued De Klerk … threatened to suspend all…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… 1952 The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid … coast) back to Namibia. 1998-1999 SWAPO amends the…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… later changes its name to the African National Congress (ANC) 1913 May, White miners declare a strike at the New … of contract under the “Masters and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The … Prof. Z. K. Matthews joins the African…
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
… between the Government and the African National Congress (ANC). The purpose of these talks was to negotiate the adoption of a new democratic constitution for…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… the way towards a new democratic dispensation and a new constitution for the country. For the first time all races in … of political violence. The African…
ArchivePresidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town, 1994
… new government structure, local government, democracy, constitution, ANC majority, RDP. …
ArchiveFighting out of darkness or moving gradually towards the light? presidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Grahamstown, 1990
… of Mandela, FW De Klerk and reform, end of Apartheid, ANC, Bill of Rights, Constitution. …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… itself to be a different organisation that adopted ANC policies and the Freedom Charter over the Black … them. AZASO also secured political cooperation with…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… including forced sexual contact. South Africa’s democratic constitution of 1994 (introduced in 1996) was very advanced … promising considerable change after…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… there was tension within the African National Congress (ANC) between those with different ideological and theoretical … struggle. Many members of the African…
The Democratic Party (DP)
… stand on constitutional reform, calling for an entrenched Constitution incorporating a Bill of Rights, for an … policy on February 2 1990. With the unbanning…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… Campaign organized by the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress, when thousands of … shot dead by police[3] - and the subsequent…
BiographyBheki Cele
… ( UDF ), and later joined the African National Congress ( ANC ) underground network. Under the command of Jacob Zuma , … the window into the schoolyard [10] …
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on receiving a Honorary LLD degree at the University of the Witwatersrand 6 September 1991
… Already there is fruitful cooperation between the ANC and scholars from this university in the development of … of liberation is the conventional language of…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… The new constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 … with the formation of the African National Congress (ANC) on 8 January 1912. The…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… Ivan Stoller (later Advocate), Jennifer Heyman (later ANC) Bernard Berman, Jesse Berman, Leslie Martin, Andrew … early 1960s. This period coincided with the…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… from the CPNU to the African National Congress (ANC) , as reactionaries. Further misunderstanding manifested … Teachers' Educational and Professional…
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… from Prof. Z.K Matthews at the African National Congress (ANC) Queenstown regional conference in 1953. It was endorsed by the ANC national conference held in…
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… South Africa (Codesa), a body set to discuss a new constitution for South Africa. They felt that the African … and condemned the record of understanding…
BiographySicelo Mhlauli
… Naude, Victoria Mxenge and Steve Tshwete. A message from ANC leader-in-exile Oliver Tambo was read to the tens of …
BiographyDennis Brutus
… and also drew closer to the African National Congress (ANC) in exile and later to the South African Communist Party …
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… 1987 he formed part of the Afrikaner group that met with ANC representatives in Senegal. After hearing F W de Klerk …
BiographyFort Calata
… the Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1936 to 1949. In 1956, when Fort was born, Canon …
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… by Algerian forces. Aligeria January 17 2013 Algeria ANC enforced a 50% representation of women in leadership for the first in its history. South Africa…