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Introduction
… Local government elections in KwaZulu/Natal (26th). Final constitution approved by the constitutional court and signed …
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South … and marked the way for a new democratic order…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… roll and gave them a communal franchise. At that time, the ANC had rejected the communal franchise, which, with the … for the Africans "a crisis comparable…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… , bringing together the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) results in … and others break away from the African…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… free water to all destitute families, was pushed into the ANC's 2000 local government election manifesto by the … African Trade Unions. Since then, various…
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… South Africa’s Constitution - admired and respected around the world for its … under apartheid into a modern and peaceful democracy. The Constitution is…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… will be responding, because in the end the drafting of the constitution must not be the preserve of the 490 members of this Assembly. It must be a…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… itself, previously an uncontested Congress stronghold, the ANC (according to one boycott leader, Dan Mokonyane) was … its reaction in the radical nationalism…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would … population and enfranchise the Indian…
Chapter 11
… on the Executive of the A.A.C. they embodied in the Constitution a clause to the effect that Convention shall … 1. That the two bodies be requested so to…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… the National Party (NP) to the African National Congress (ANC). Contrary to many predictions, South Africa avoided a … (acolytes). Upstairs in the…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of the 'new constitution' (1,300,000). These whites who did not vote obviously see nothing better or worse In the …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… Mandela went underground with the approval of the ANC leadership, and organized Umkhonto we Sizwe to undertake … leaders of the people. The Government…
Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 09 May 1986, New Delhi
… and the international community of the remarkably racist constitution forced on the majority of the people of South … the leadership of the broad democratic…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… and the international community of the remarkably racist constitution forced on the majority of the people of South … the leadership of the broad democratic…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… encapsulates the meaning of the transition is the Interim Constitution of 1993, which took effect at the time of the … between people linked to the…
From death row in Pretoria Central Prison, October 1964 [Extract]
… Certification of the Amended Text of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 CCT 37/96 … of the Constitutional Assembly: in re Certification of…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… was a dire need for law reform, which began when the new Constitution came into effect in 1996. In terms of section 15(3) of the Constitution of the Republic…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… the process of public participation in drawing up our new Constitution. COSATU, with membership approaching the two … people and the poor who want to ensure…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. … struggle. The PAC launched its armed wing Poqo…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… His philosophy of non-violence strongly influenced the ANC in later years. 1899-1902 The Second Angl-Boer War for … colonial power, through its parliament,…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… has convened to adopt important amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 1993. The … concerns have not been accommodated in the…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… is opposed. They continue to govern our country under a constitution which the Security Council has declared null and … country. Pursuant to this objective,…
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
… by posing and answering the question – what does our Constitution prescribe in terms of how South Africa should be … to the Constitutional prescripts? The…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… are guaranteed and protected, through a democratic constitution, the rule of law, an entrenched bill of rights … be considered by us all, including the…
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA’s first Executive President
… president. This was a newly created position after the new constitution came into force in 1984. The constitution further created three houses of parliament,…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… National Convention in March 1909, which called for a constitution giving "full and equal rights" for all Blacks, … privileges were not extended to Blacks…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… first time ever – in Rustenburg. 1858 2 February, A new Constitution is signed, bringing into being the South African … are eventually transferred to…
ArticleAll Members of South Africa’s 5th Democratic Parliament 2014
… First names Party Abrahams Beverley Lynnette ANC Adams Freddie ANC Alberts Anton FF+ America Derrick DA … Nosimo Zisiwe…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon of the conference of editors 6 September 1994
… didn't come. We are convinced - as government and as the ANC in particular - that such a storm will not come. South … the Government of National Unity -…