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BiographyAdam Small
… Service (Gold) from former President and last National Party (NP) leader, F.W.de Klerk . Additionally, he accepted …
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… years leading up to the 1924 election, the South African Party (SAP), led by Louis Botha , supported a one stream … Justice, James Hertzog , and the creation…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator of the National Party during the multi-party peace negotiations, met with Bantu Holomisa, former … of corruption, teamed…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - List of Abbreviations
… Development Management MK Umkhonto we Sizwe NP National Party OAU Organisation of African Unity RDP Reconstruction … Organisation TRC Truth and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… countries. Increased pressure inside South Africa by the United Democratic Front (UDF) and later the Mass Democratic … on Sanctions against South Africa,…
Debate in the House of Assembly during the second reading of the Immorality Amendment Bill on 23 February 1962
… about the hon. member for Houghton, I cannot say it of the United Party unfortunately, because I am not sure what the party's attitude is. I am never sure…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing … of the different countries during a session of the…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… an anti-republican largely English group. Amongst National Party (NP) supporters the tendency was to favour republicanism and the United Party (UP), its main…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… first public appearance following the announcement of the United Party's federal policy. After referring to South Africans … as that is concerned, he is in a…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… to the description for the location of the location of the United Presbyterian Church’s Teacher Training School for …
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… and brought the matter before the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). The meeting began on 23 October 1946 … In December 1946 the majority of the…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… legislation. She entered politics when she represented the United Party (UP) in Parliament in 1953. Six years later she founded … doctorates. Her struggle…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… the anti-war (World War II) campaign of the Non-European United Front . Kathrada helps to distribute Dadoo’s court … ‘Kathy’ Mid 1940s Kathrada is admitted…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, which was renamed the New National Party (NNP), was … 11 September. 29 September, Nelson Mandela…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… of the Union, held on 15 September 1910, the South African Party came to power. The election saw the SAP win 68 seats, … in the election of 18 May 1938, but…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… After the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the National Party (NP) government, which was formed in 1947, intensified … Congress (PAC) after the Sharpeville…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… and 1989 meeting with President George W.H. Bush. Keywords United Democratic Front, FEDTRAW, Alberta Sisulu, Koornhoff Bills, United Women Organization…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… in 1990, SWAPO became the country’s leading political party. The Formation of the People’s Liberation Army of … The South African government responded by…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… from South Africa who is involved in the local Communist Party. Through this friend he finds work at a communist book … steadily growing. Abrahams breaks…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… apartheid was the ideology supported by the National Party (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in … governments existing before the Afrikaner…
EventSir de Villiers Graaff agrees with SA veto of UN visit
… Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party, the official opposition, agreed with the apartheid government that the composition of the proposed United…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… On the night before they left, Dr Monty Naicker held a party at his home for them. 17 July, Dawood Seedat was … a meeting under the auspices of the Non…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… range of people. By chance he has contact with Communist Party member Rusty Bernstein, who loans him the first piece … Johannesburg, "We are educated people,…
The Afrikaner Bond
… organisation that was effectively the first political party in South Africa, was founded in 1880 in the Cape Colony … of the Farmer or Merchant’. He wanted…
EventThe last general election of the Union of South Africa takes place
… a Republic on 31 May 1961, was held with the National Party (NP) under Adv J.G. Strijdom, registering a victory. … electoral victory up to that time, while…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… is widely documented, considered as the Nationalist Party (NP) government's model for its urban apartheid … NP government succeeded in destroying Sophiatown…
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… that these issues are hardly unique to South Africa. The United States experiences similar ambivalence in the … African Parliament omitted Shaka Day, the…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… monarch and Chief Leabua Jonathan of the Basotho National Party (BNP) as prime minister. 1970 Chief Leabua Jonathan … loses the January election to the…