Posted on 17 Julie 2019 by volksvryheid The Transvaal was annexed by Britain in 1900, but guerrilla fighting continued. The Treaty of Vereeniging (1902) ended the war and made the Transvaal (as well as the Orange Free State) a crown colony of the…
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Saturday 26 Sep 2015 Published with permission from the author Harry Booyens By 1985 President PW Botha of South Africa had finished his removal of Petty Apartheid, the race-based socially harmful discriminatory laws. Even the so-called Immorality…
ECONOMIC GROWTH CENTER YALE UNIVERSITY P.O. Box 208269 27 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8269 CENTER DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 796 Philip I. Levy Yale University February 1999 Note: Center Discussion Papers are preliminary materials circulated…
Economic Sanctions against South Africa and the Importance of Switzerland In 1986 – about 40 years after the beginning of Apartheid – South Africa’s most important trading partners (the USA, the EC, and Japan) imposed…
On 17 March 1992, President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The aim of the referendum was to measure White support for…
A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to White voters,[1][2] who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State…
In South Africa, the first formal meeting between the ANC and the government began on 2 May 1990 at Groote Schuur in Cape Town, and lasted for three days. The discussions were characterized by openness…
Monday, 02 March 1987 Written by Warren L. McFerran The issue of South Africa is of concern to everyone, not just South Africans. Indeed, according to former British Foreign Secretary David Owen, it is over…
