• Presidential elections were held in the South African Republic on 16 April 1883. The election was held after the country's triumvirate leadership, consisting...
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  • Presidential elections were held in the South African Republic in 1888. The result was a victory for Paul Kruger, who defeated Piet Joubert by a wide margin...
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  • Presidential elections were held in the South African Republic in 1872. The result was a victory for Thomas François Burgers, who defeated the "Afrikanerised"...
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    South Africa, and State President of the South African Republic (or Transvaal) from 1883 to 1900. Nicknamed Oom Paul ("Uncle Paul"), he came to international...
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    the conclusion of the Pretoria Convention. In 1883 he was a candidate in the Transvaal presidential election, but received only 1,171 votes as against 3...
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    formed part of the South African Republic (Transvaal). Following the granting of sovereignty to the Transvaal Republic, the British sought to drop their...
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    Turks" within the party, wrestled the leadership of the party in the Transvaal from Marais Steyn. His victory was a visible sign of strength from the...
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    the English and Afrikaner communities. Afrikaner nationalists in the Transvaal and Cape provinces soon followed suit, so that three distinct provincial...
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  • Lekota, Mbhazima Shilowa and Mluleki George to contest the 2009 general election. The party was announced following a national convention held in Sandton...
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  • (1931–1952) Governor-General's Standard (1952–1961) State Presidential Standard (1961–1984) State Presidential Standard (1984–1994) Chikane, Frank (28 April 2012)...
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    political violence in parts of the country, particularly in Natal and certain Transvaal townships, where ANC and IFP supporters periodically clashed. In early...
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    National Conference. This resulted in the party's first contested presidential election since that which had deposed Moroka in 1952. At the conference,...
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    civilians. Next, an explosive device was found in a railway in Eastern Transvaal. On 15 November, members of MK attacked the Orlando SAP Station, leaving...
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  • Kwena people repel an invasion by the Transvaal Republic in the Battle of Dimawe.: xxv  1853 January – Transvaal and the Kwena people come to a peace agreement...
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    and build three new houses. In May 2009, pursuant to the 2009 general election, Zuma was elected President of South Africa, and – in terms of a Cabinet...
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  • Conference in 2007and then for the national presidency in the 2009 presidential elections. The trial began on 6 March 2006 in the Johannesburg High Court...
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    condemning the government's financial policy and their attitude towards the Transvaal. Throughout the Second Boer War he lost no opportunity of criticising...
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  • I Am an African (category South Africa presidential speeches)
    (1882–1883) Stellaland (1882–1885) Nieuwe Republiek (1884–1888) Upingtonia (1885–1887) Klein Vrystaat (1886–1891) Orange River Colony (1902–1910) Transvaal...
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  • 20 March 2010. L. T. Carron, Robinson, Sir Roy Lister (Baron Robinson) (1883–1952) Archived 15 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Australian Dictionary...
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  • Africanists were displeased with this notion. In November 1958, at the Transvaal provincial assembly, some Africanists were barred. They chose to leave...
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    hugely popular with the burghers of the Orange Free State. The presidential elections of 1883 could on content have become a political battle between the...
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  • not want to cause alarm within the farming community and instead the presidential security detail investigated the theft. From the allegation and charges...
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  • material and with a prologue by Graça Machel: entitled Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years, this volume took its title from the closing sentence of Long Walk...
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    South Africa from the previously separate colonies of the Cape, Natal, Transvaal and Orange River 27 April 1994 De jure: Reincorporation of the nominally...
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    Proudly South African was established in 2001, born out of the 1998 Presidential Job Summit which was convened by the late former President Nelson Mandela...
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    Kruger of the Transvaal. Principal issue the status of the uitlanders and the English language together with Milner's demand that the Transvaal's sovereignty...
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    general election on a platform of overseas retrenchment, and Gladstone had put his principles into practice by withdrawing from the Transvaal and Afghanistan...
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  • Rubicon speech (category South Africa presidential speeches)
    (1882–1883) Stellaland (1882–1885) Nieuwe Republiek (1884–1888) Upingtonia (1885–1887) Klein Vrystaat (1886–1891) Orange River Colony (1902–1910) Transvaal...
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    US presidential elections. Reagan's tough anti-communist record and rhetoric was greeted with cautious optimism by Pretoria; during his election campaign...
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  • early 1960s to the late 1980s, Africa had more than 70 coups and 13 presidential assassinations. Border and territorial disputes were also common, with...
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