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  Conservative Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Conservative Party of South Africa (Konserwetiewe Party van Suid-Afrika in Afrikaans) was a far-right party formed in 1982 as a breakaway from the ruling National Party.
The Conservative Party received 43% of the Afrikaner votes and 7,5% of the english speaking votes.
The Conservative Monday Club, also a firm supporter of white rule in South Africa, hosted a major fl-tie banquet at the Charing Cross Hotel in London for Dr. Treurnicht and his entourage in June 1989, for some 200 guests.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party_(South_Africa)   (465 words)

  
 Conservative Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conservative Party is a name used by several political parties across the world, which uphold some form of conservatism.
Conservative Party (Czech), KONS; in Czech: Konzervativní strana
Conservative Party of New York State, United States
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservative_Party   (133 words)

  
 South Africa - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1934 the House of Assembly passed two bills that confirmed the understanding under the 1931 Statute of Westminster that South Africa was independent of legislative control by the British Parliament, and that the British crown acted solely on the advice of South African ministers in matters concerning South Africa.
South Africa had benefited economically during the war years, but between 1945 and 1948 the Smuts government was condemned at the United Nations for South Africa's racial policies (particularly towards its Indian population).
South Africa was invited to rejoin the Commonwealth in January 1994.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /South+Africa   (5762 words)

  
 South Africa Political Parties
South Africa's political party system underwent radical transformation in the early 1990s when previously illegal parties were unbanned and participated in the April 1994 elections.
Party members campaigned against military recruitment of fls (and Indians) in South Africa, arguing that the "natives" should not be sacrificed to perpetuate their own exploitation.
Party members reportedly persuaded the ANC to abandon African nationalism in favor of nonracialism, however, although the SACP, unlike the ANC, viewed the primary objective of the revolution as the creation of a socialist state.
www.country-studies.com /south-africa/political-parties.html   (5877 words)

  
 World Almanac for Kids
South Africa also includes a part of the Kalahari Desert in the NW and a section of the Namib Desert in the W. Rivers.
The population of South Africa (1995 est.) was 43,594,800.
By the South Africa Act (1910) the British Parliament established the dominion of the Union of South Africa, with the four colonies as its provinces.
www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/southafrica.html   (7551 words)

  
 South Africa
Although South Africa's economy is in many areas highly developed, the exclusionarynature of apartheid and distortions caused in part by the country's internationalisolation until the 1990s have left major weaknesses.
In August1996, South Africa signed a regional trade protocol agreement with its SADC partners.While the agreement has yet to be ratified, negotiations continue to finalize tariffbindings and move the region toward economic integration.
South Africa is a contracting party to the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Tradeand is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
clinton4.nara.gov /Africa/south.html   (3761 words)

  
 “Traditional” Dictatorship: One Party State in KwaZulu Homeland Threatens Transition to Democracy (Human ...
In Natal, as elsewhere in South Africa, the practice of segregation for South Africans of African descent established by the British was refined by the National Party government after its victory in the 1948 election.
One of the problems facing the KZP is certainly that it is understaffed in relation to the population and area that it is expected to patrol, as is the case for the police force in South Africa generally.
Speaking to Africa Watch on January 27, 1993, Gavin Woods, Executive Director of the Inkatha Institute, stated that he had not heard specific refutations of the ANC's allegations and that the ANC might therefore perhaps be given "the benefit of the doubt" regarding allegations of police misbehavior in Esikhawini.
hrw.org /reports/1993/southafrica2   (17672 words)

  
 Election Manifesto of the Conservative Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Conservative Party is going to fight with all the means at its disposal to maintain the overwhelming support it won in the municipal elections of 1988 and sub-sequent by-elections.
The Conservative Party is prepared to render assistance without parties interfering in the affairs of one another.
The Conservative Party is the only instrument that can guarantee the survival of the Afrikaner and like-minded people of other language groups and is by far the best equipped party to oppose the ANC on the local level of government to prevent rates and taxes for services being raised arbitrarily and unjustly.
www.anc.org.za /locelect/manifestocp.html   (408 words)

  
 South Africa Country Analysis Brief
Inflation was 1.4% in 2004 and is forecast at 3.0% for 2005.
South Africa consumed 171.6 mmst of coal in 2002, 90% of which was used for electricity generation and the synthetic fuel industry.
South Africa imports the majority of its crude oil from the Middle East, with Saudi Arabia and Iran as its chief suppliers.
www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/safrica.html   (5265 words)

  
 afrol News - South Africa emerges a two-party state
The exception is a two-week-long "floor-crossing period", starting today, where representatives may leave their parties on the basis of principle, if they hold that their party abandoned their mandate to the voters.
According to the last remaining nation-wide large opposition party, the DA, these developments are far from positive for the state of democracy in South Africa.
For the many South African voters that align with a race-based identity - while racism is outlawed, social differences based on race groups have not decreased - NNP members are closer to the DA membership.
www.afrol.com /articles/13847   (815 words)

  
 South Africa - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is bound by the Namibia to the northwest, Botswana to the north, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the east and southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest and west.
CLIMATE: South Africa has a temperate climate that is influenced by the warm Agulhas current from Mozambique as well as the Indian Ocean to the east and the cold Benguela current from the Atlantic Ocean on the west coast.
In Oct. 1993 Clive Derby-Lewis of the Conservative Party (CP) and a Polish immigrant were found guilty of Hani's murder and sentenced to death.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/southafr.htm   (1965 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Segregation and Apartheid (Historical Association Studies): Books: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The book examines the major issues in South Africa's history, from the colonial conquests of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, through the establishment of racism, segregation and apartheid; the spirit of reform, resistance and repression of the 1980s and up to the present day.
Maps of African societies in the nineteenth century; The Union of South Africa in 1910; "Native Reserves" of 1913 and 1936'; and the Bantustans, or Homelands, all provide a tangible, physical view of the changing nature of South Africa's political topography.
Worden concludes that it was the variety of civil wars in South Africa, with the population alienated from the state and sanctions effectively slowing the economy, which seriously began to force apartheid into decline.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0631216618?v=glance   (1372 words)

  
 Victory or Violence: The Story of the AWB: Chapter 3
The party was formed after senior party members, including cabinet minister Andries Treurnicht, refused to endorse a NP caucus resolution giving the right to the then prime minister PW Botha to "interpret" NP policy - in effect giving him free rein to change the party's policy.
In the next year, the CP became the first party to the right of the NP to win a seat from the government when Treurnicht retained the seat of Waterberg after being challenged to resign and fight the seat in a test of strength by the NP.
Afrikaans society and South Africa in general was dominated by a secret Afrikaans organisation called the "Afrikaner Broederbond " (AB) or in English the "Brother Bond" since 1948, when the NP first came to power right up until the ANC came to power in 1994.
www.arthurkemp.com /awb/chap03.htm   (5525 words)

  
 National Review: South African prize day - continuing struggle to end apartheid
ONE WOULD NOT normally come to Paris to meet the President of South Africa, but this was time of prizes for distinguished South Africans.
Henry Kissinger had presented President F. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress jointly with the Houphouet-Boigny prize for "peace" (donated by the longtime President of the Ivory Coast), under the auspices of that formerly subversive organization, UNESCO.
In August 1990, Gennady Yanayev, the hard-line "leader" of the failed coup that paved the way for Gorbachev's fall, told Slovo in Moscow that he could rely on Moscow's solidarity with South African's Communists and the ANC.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n4_v44/ai_11925684   (321 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- South Africa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.
South African economic policy is fiscally conservative, but pragmatic, focusing on targeting inflation and liberalizing trade as means to increase job growth and household income.
South Africa has placed military along the border to stem the thousands of Zimbabweans fleeing to find work and escape political persecution; managed dispute with Namibia over the location of the boundary in the Orange River
www.odci.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/sf.html   (1317 words)

  
 National Review: Down negotiation road - South African compromises over apartheid policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The 2 to 1 margin of victory was greater than most pundits had predicted, and it leaves the road to a negotiated settlement wide open.
The leader of the segregationists Conservative Party, Andries Treurnicht, has always insisted that he will work within parliamentary means.
As South Africans sit on the stoep in the evening listening to the sounds of the African night--burglar alarms going off, guard dogs howling, perhaps a police helicopter flying by--the more perceptive might also detect a distant but persistent clucking: the sound of chickens coming home to roost.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v44/ai_12127935   (419 words)

  
 South Africa
united as a dominion (Union of South Africa).
17 Dec 1856 Republic of Lijdenburg in South Africa established.
29 Dec 1947 Marion Island annexed for South Africa by Lt. Cmdr.
www.worldstatesmen.org /South_Africa.html   (4458 words)

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