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Government of South Africa: South Africa

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Accords of Nkomati Accords of Peace Administrator Afrikaans Official Language Afrikaner Loyalty Speech Afrikaner Political Organisation Alliance ANC and ZAPU for armed struggle Alliance James Hertzog and for Britain in World War II Alliance James Hertzog and neutrality supporters Alliance Jan Smuts and the Commonwealth Alliance Marthinus Pretorius and insurgent Boer leaders Ambassador Recall ANC ANC and PAC Banned ANC and PAC Banning Announced Anthem-National Apartheid Apartheid Education System Apartheid Policy Concerns Arrest of Leanders Starr Jameson Arrest of Nelson Mandela Asked to Form First Union Cabinet Assassination Attempt Assassination of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd Attorney General Autobiography Published Balfour Declaration Bantu Authorities Act Bantu Education Act Bilingualism Birth of Jan Christian Smuts Birth of John Charles Molteno Birth of Pieter Botha Birth of Pieter Willem Botha Birth of Thomas Charles Scanlen Bombing of Durban Bombing of East London Bombing of Port Elizabeth Bombing of Umkhonto Books Botha Government Begins Break in Diplomatic Relations with Germany Brink Burial Cabinet Cabinet Appointment Cabinet Misgivings After Sharpeville Cabinet Reconstruction Cabinet Responsibility Expanded Censorship Charter CI Citizenship Civil Rights Closes the Russian consulate Coalition Government CODESA Colonial Secretary Coloured Persons Reserves Act Coloured Voters Removed Commandant Commission Commonwealth Communist Party Community Development Portfolio Conference of Bloemfontein Conference of CHOGM Conference of Commonwealth Conference of Customs Conference of Impereial Conference of Imperial Conference of OAU Conference of Pretoria Conference of San Francisco Conference of Turnhalle Constitution of South Africa Constitutional Referendum Constitutional Transition Convention COVID-19 Cullinan Diamond Cullinan Diamond Presentation Customs Conference De Klerk Presidency Begins Death of Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd Death of Johennes Gerhardus Strijdom Death of John Charles Molteno Death of Thomas Charles Scanlen Declaration of Balfour Defence Act Defence Minister Appointment Defence Portfolio Defence Portfolio Relinquished Demonstrations Department of External Affairs Department of Native Affairs Deputy Minister Appointment Deputy President Deputy Prime Minister Dismissal Economy of South Africa Education Election Election by National Assembly Emergency Government Powers Emergency Lifted Emergency Powers Declared Emergency Powers Invoked Emergency Rule Expanded End of Defence Ministry Tenure Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Evacuation Executive State Presidency Executive State President First Democratic President Chosen First Democratic Vote First State President First Union Cabinet First Union General Election First Union General Election Election Outcome First Union General Election Government First Union Government Foreign Secretary of South Africa Founding of Pretoria Fourth Presidential Term Franchise Free State General Election General Election - First Union General Election General Election - General Election General Election Election Outcome General Election Government General Strike George V departs to South Africa to help Smuts against the Nationalist Gold Standard Government Government of National Unity Begins Government of National Unity Presidency Government Response to Sharpeville Groote Schuur Minute Group Areas Act Hertzog Excluded from Cabinet Hertzog Government Begins Hertzog-Smuts Coalition Het Volk Administration Het Volk Government Formed Het Volk Leadership IDC Imperial Conference Inauguration Independence of Ciskei Independence of Lesotho Independence of Lesotho and Botswana Independence of Namibia Independence of Orange Free State Independence of Rhodesia Independence of South Africa Independence of Swaziland Independence of Transkei Independence of Transvaal Independence of Venda Internal Affairs Portfolio International Agreement Interracial Marriage Ban Invasion of Angola Kruger Government Established Kruger Re-Elected Lagislation-Pass Laws Land Acts Language Status Reform Law Studies at Bloemfontein Leader Senate Legislation Loan-Transvaal Long Walk to Freedom Launch MacMillan makes a speech Macmillan Speech Reception Malan Premiership Begins Mandela Conditional Release Offer Mandela Votes for First Time Marriage Martial Law Massacre Mbeki Presidency Begins Meadowlands Meeting with Nelson Mandela Member of Parliament Minister of Coloured Affairs Minister of Education Minister of Finance Minister of Housing Minister of Interior Minister of Justice Minister of Labour Minister of Mines Minister of Native Affairs National Assembly National Convention National Party National Party Government National Party Leadership Victory Nationwide State of Emergency Natives Land Act Natives Laws Amendment Act Negotiations Neutrality New Constitution Takes Effect New Constitutional System New Government Building Used Nkomati Accord Non-Aggression Agreement with Mozambique NRB NUSAS OAU Banda decides in favour of relations with South Africa Organisation of African Unity Ou Raadsaal Parliamentary Session P W Botha Born PAC Pact Government Takes Office Paris Peace Conference Parliament Partial Emergency Ends Partial State of Emergency Pass Laws Pass Laws Reinstated Pass Suspension Ends Peace Conference Plot Population Registration Act Portuguese Treaty President of South Africa Presidential Inauguration Presidential Term Begins Pretoria Becomes Capital Pretoria Named Prime Minister Appointment Prime Minister of South Africa Prison Release Proposal Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act Provisional Assembly Public Works Portfolio Purge Racial Classification Law Racial Land Segregation Legislation Raid Ramaphosa Electoral Mandate Rand Easter Show Shooting Reception of The Prime Minister of Lesotho Referendum Referendum Act Reform of Armed Forces Reform of Civil Rights Reform of Constitution Reform of Education Reform of Electoral System Reform of Government Reform of Immigration Law Reform of Labour Law Reform of Land Ownership Reform of Legal System Reform of Parliament Reform of Racial Laws Refuses to place South West Africa under United Nations trusteeship Reparations Report Republic Head of State Republic Referendum Date Republic Referendum Period Republic Referendum Victory Republic Vote Scheduled Residential Segregation Legislation Resignation of Cecil Rhodes Resignation of Daniel Francois Malan Resignation of Frederik Willem de Klerk Resignation of James Hertzog Resignation of Louis Botha Resignation of Marthinus Pretorius Resignation of Pieter Botha Resignation of William Philip Schreiner Result of Surrender of Jameson Raid Force Retirement Royal Gift Rule of Matabeleland Rule of Namibia Rule of Transkei Sanctions Second Presidential Inauguration Secretary of State for Agriculture Secretary of State for Defence Secretary of State for Health Self-Government Campaign Senate Separate Electoral Roll Established Sharpeville Crisis Siege of Maputo Smuts Government Formed Smuts Mission to London South Africa Act South Africa begins sending diplomats broad South African Party Victory South African Peace Delegation Southern African Development Speech State Attorney State of Emergency State of Emergency Proclamation State Presidency Begins State President Inauguration Statute of Westminster Strijdom Government Begins Strike Suffrage Surrender of Jameson Raid Force Technical Co-operation in Africa Transvaal Government Formed Transvaal Government Seat Transvaal Premiership Trial Tricameral Constitution Approved Tricameral Constitution Begins Tuynhuys Meeting Two Stream UDF Umkhonto Umkhonto We Sizwe UN Security Council Unification Union Constitution Approved Union Constitution Negotiations Union Defence Force Established Union Government Begins Union Government Commission Union of South Africa Union Preparations Union takes over the British naval base at Simons Town United Nations General Assembly condems South Africa United Party University Studies Unlawful Organisations Act Enforcement Unlawful Organisations Enforcement Urban Bantu Councils Act Verwoerd Government Begins Visit to To Malawi Visited by the British Royal family Volksraad Election Vorster declares in the Senate South Africa will not interfere in other Vorster exposes Zambias secret relations with South Africa Vorster Government Begins Vote of Confidence Vryheid Representation White Electorate Approves Republic Wind of Change Response Zuma Presidency Begins

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