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Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… Naidoo, Mrs Patel and Miss Sonja Schlesin (Gandhi'ss Secretary) address a meeting of Indian women at the Hamidia …
EventNiger's Independence Day
… the same year. In the first Nigerien elections, Diori was elected and sworn in as president.Hamani Diori, a …
The conduct of EFF at the National Assembly Today, 17 September 2014
… that any member of the National Assembly is eligible to be elected as a speaker by the majority members of the House. …
EventNatal is formally separated from the Cape Colony
… Colony would have limited self-government through a partly elected Legislative Council. Ten years later, in 1866, Natal …
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… of the new Constitution for South Africa by democratically elected representatives of all the people of this country and …
EventJacob Zuma, Former President of South Africa and of the ANC, is born.
… Affairs and Tourism in The KwaZulu - Natal .He was elected President of the ANC in Polokwane in December 2007, …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… the UDF at Mitchells Plain outside Cape Town. Boesak was elected UDF's patron. Early in 1986 the UDF became an …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… (SASO). Rachidi joined the BPC in 1972, and was elected President in 1975. His views, as expressed in the …
EventKaunda announces nationalisation of Copper mines
… Kaunda was forced to hand over power to a democratically elected government in 1990, which continued with IMF economic …
EventAndries Hendrik Potgieter establishes the town of Potchefstroom
… At a Voortrekker meeting on 2 December 1836, he was elected as the Chief Commandant. By 1837, Mzilikazi and his …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… reproductive rights by South Africa's first democratically elected parliament. …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… (SAIRR) and served on the executive from 1954. She was elected vice president of the SAIRR on three separate …
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… moment known well to nearly all South Africans, newly elected President Nelson Mandela, wearing a green and gold …
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… over a 100 years before the congregation democratically elected an Imam (the person who leads the congregational … the keepings of the Mosque. Imam Gassan…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… to help to change all that. They want you, their elected representatives, to give them the possibility to control their institutions. They want you, their…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… Missionary Society (GMS). It was named after the society’s secretary at the time, Dr John Love. It first provided …
EventThe Natal Legislature plans to introduce the Indian Franchise Bill
… – the petition was addressed to Lord Ripon, Secretary of State for Colonies. …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… Secretary …
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… Curnick Ndlovu was the secretary of the South African Congress of Trade …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… was to fly to the United States to meet, among others, the Secretary of State, Cyrus Vance. According to Glyn Williams, …
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… violent clashes between members of the two parties. The Secretary General of the IFP, Oscar Dhlomo , communicated the …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… (ANC) stalwart, Albertina Sisulu, a wife to former ANC Secretary, Walter Sisulu died at her Linden home, …
PlaceDurban International Airport
… This election was won by the ANC and Nelson Mandela was elected the president of South Africa. This brought about … This election was won by the ANC and…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… of a Council consisting of partly nominated and partly elected African members whose function would be to advise the … a decision taken to give the Council a…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… a notable and honourable part. It is clear too that the SACP itself was a vanguard pace-setter in the building of …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… of the traditional leader.Traditional leaders were not elected, but the son would inherit the father or uncle’s …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… of Black Consciousness and an interim executive was elected to establish branches at the various campuses and to …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… of September 1979. During the conference, AZAPO students elected an Interim Committee (IC) to prepare for the launch …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… Nelson Mandela stated: "When our first democratically-elected government decided to make Heritage Day one of our …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… people see their relationship with their democratically elected government. …