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  African National Congress information - Search.com
The African National Congress (ANC) is a centre-left political party, and has been South Africa's governing party supported by a tripartite alliance between itself, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994.
Originally called the South African Native National Congress until 1923, it was founded to defend the rights of the fl majority on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein, and counted John Dube (its first president) and poet and author Sol Plaatje among its founding members.
In April 1994, in a tripartite alliance with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the ANC won a landslide victory in the 1994 general election, and Nelson Mandela was elected the first President of South Africa.
www.search.com /reference/African_National_Congress   (1683 words)

  
 South African Libraries and Archives on the Internet
CHEC represents four tertiary institutions in the Western Cape of South Africa: the University of Cape Town, theUniversity of Stellenbosch, the University of the Western Cape and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology." Based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Lists the e-mail addresses of the library staff and includes a history of the library which notes that the Steve Biko Letters and Lennox Papers are held in their Africana collection (the Howard Pim Library).
Holds the collections of the African National Congress (including a chronology of the ANC and Thabo Mbeki's speech at the March 1996 opening of the Archives), Pan Africanist Congess of Azania, AZAPO and the Black Consciousness Movement, the A. Jordan Papers, the Lovedale Press Records.
www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/rsalibs.html   (2659 words)

  
  African American Odyssey
The European, American, and African slave traders engaged in the lucrative trade in humans, and the politicians and businessmen who supported them, did not intend to put into motion a chain of events that would motivate the captives and their descendants to fight for full citizenship in the United States of America.
African Americans repeatedly questioned how their owners could consider themselves noble in their own fight for independence from England while simultaneously believing that it was wrong for slaves to do the same.
One of the preeminent African American collage artists, Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte on September 2, 1914, lived in Pittsburgh and Harlem, and died in New York on March 12, 1988.
lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/aopart1.html   (1510 words)

  
 The World Fact Site -- Country List
A former South African police officer says ex-President FW de Klerk's hands were "soaked in blood" while in office.
The first new TB vaccine for 80 years is being tested in clinical trials in South Africa.
US astronauts were cleared to fly while drunk at least twice, according to a report commissioned by Nasa.
www.worldfactsite.com   (551 words)

  
 South African Elections Show the Way Toward Racial Fairness
The miraculous triumph of democracy in South Africa is the culmination of a remarkable year for proportional representation (PR), that "other" voting system used by most of the democratic world.
The South Africans never even seriously considered the winner-take-all system, because it was universally recognized that the success of their new democracy depended on t he degree to which their government reflected the racial and political diversity of their society -- never a strong point of winner-take-all systems.
The German system's combination of U.S.-style geographic districts with a party list PR system that elects political parties in prop ortion to their share of the popular vote would be very familiar to U.S. voters.
www.giantleap.org /envision/southafr.htm   (1742 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online: Columnists
South African politics are clearly maturing as the country grapples with consolidating democracy.
The complaint by opposition parties that South Africa is fast becoming a one-party state is stubbornly not going away, and is set to dominate the forthcoming election.
In this view, the African National Congress is becoming too powerful and is likely to subvert South Africa's democracy, running the country into the ground in the process.
www.mg.co.za /articleList.aspx?area=/columnist__thabisi_hoeane   (1013 words)

  
 SOUTH AFRICA — The 51st State: Proposal from a South African magazine
Africans as individuals would probably desire rapport with the 51st State; even now the flow of illegal Black immigrants into South Africa indicates their desire to improve their material standards of living.
At present, South Africa accounts for one-third of the GNP of the entire continent, and is obviously in a position to initiate an economic surge throughout the continent.
Tho South African law-enforcement officials claim that these were common crimes related to theft, it is certainly not necessary to murder someone to rob him.
members.aol.com /XPUS2/SouthAfrica.html   (8272 words)

  
 African Novels Guide ~ Billington Library @ JCCC
A white woman is dying of cancer as the South African situation deteriorates.
A South African professor who loses his job because of sexual misconduct, retires to his daughter's remote farm where he is unable to protect her from the assault of her neighbors.
The son of a liberal South African couple is charged with murder in this novel that explores the effect of a violent society on individuals.
library.jccc.net /guides/literature/africannovel.html   (1603 words)

  
 South Asia at Chicago Outreach
Dadi and her family recognize, but cannot fully control, the constantly changing forces holding the family together as well as threatening to break up the family and to divide and separate the family property.
But since World War I, and with increasing vigor in the last 20 years, Africans have been rediscovering their lost religious identity and have been forming independent churches with their own festivals, prophets and rituals and greater or lesser devotion to Christ.
With tales from medieval Tamil poems and paintings and sculptures from local temples, the film illustrates how the city, the main temple, the goddess Minakshi and the god Sundareshvara have evolved, and how the reenactment of the marriage of the god and goddess has become the most important annual festival of Madurai.
southasia.uchicago.edu /videolist.htm   (9254 words)

  
 African American Men in Government (Educational Materials: African American Odyssey)
Throughout the South especially, there were legal and violent reactions to fls obtaining the right to vote and to hold offices.
African Americans became involved in the political process not only as voters but also as governmental representatives at the local, state and national level.
List the provisions of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
www.loc.gov /exhibits/odyssey/educate/reps.html   (266 words)

  
 Flags and Lost Causes
Because there is a large population of South Vietnamese refugees in Northern Virginia, the students are embarrassed by the display of the official flag, he said.
And it seems strange for the Virginia bill's sponsor to say that 99% of Vietnamese immigrants "owe their allegiance to the South Vietnamese flag" when more than half of them were born after the war ended, and many are US citizens.
My sense is that 99% of immigrants from any country owe their allegiance to the American flag, and that it is irresponsible and divisive to suggest otherwise.
www.lib.washington.edu /southeastasia/vsg/elist_2003/flags.htm   (2420 words)

  
 Porter Henderson Library: African American History Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Presents an alphabetical listing of fl members, selected biographical information, and committee assignments during their tenure in office.
It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings.
The plural form of the phrase -- "African Americans" -- is used for works on citizens of the United States of fl African descent.
www.angelo.edu /services/library/govdocs/african.htm   (3624 words)

  
 History: United States - Southern
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century.
Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction.
South since the War: As Shown by Fourteen Weeks of Travel and Observation in Georgia and the Carolinas.
www.lsu.edu /lsupress/Books/Subject_Listing/history_us_south.htm   (1519 words)

  
 A South African   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Last year, three South Africans were invited to be on the Advisory Board of an organization that was about to be launched in the US, the Progressive Muslims Union of North America.
We Muslims in South Africa, living in a relative comfort zone, generally do not realize how much the Muslim ummah has changed over the past three years as a result of the stresses that followed the terrorist attacks of the 11 September 2001 in the US.
Who is to say, for example, that if a well-known South African anti-war activist gets a visa to attend an anti-war conference in the US, it’s not because the CIA believes it serves some purpose to have him there.
www.amperspective.com /html/a_south_african.html   (927 words)

  
 South African Association of Women Graduates
It was specified that the research should be aimed at “ameliorating social conditions in South Africa”, that the Fellow should spend at least two years implementing the results of her research, and that she should donate a copy of her thesis to the organization.
To support South African adolescent girls (and school teachers) from disadvantaged areas, with the objective of enhancing their self-esteem, and enabling them to lead fulfilled lives as persons in their own right, as well as in their roles as wives and mothers.
You see, however much better South Africa might be for you and me and other women who are employed, the simple truth is that most South African women do not yet have either the resources or the capacity effectively to change their lives for the better.
www.ifuw.org /southafrica   (11812 words)

  
 Some South African politicians have begun to scapegoat foreigners as the cause of the country's problems. A 1997 survey ...
Some South African politicians have begun to scapegoat foreigners as the cause of the country's problems.
Both Blacks and whites in the survey preferred white to Black immigrants.Some South African politicians have begun to scapegoat foreigners as the cause of the country's problems.
Violence against foreigners in South Africa is increasing, as South Africans of all races begin to see foreigners as competing for scarce jobs and housing.
www.migrationint.com.au /news/macedonia/nov_1998-20.html   (792 words)

  
 List of South African politicians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of South African politicians, both past and present.
The scope is quite broad, including prominent candidates for local and central government office as well as those who achieved such office.
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_South_African_politicians   (126 words)

  
 Facing South: Southern Strategies
Given that almost a third of the country lives in the South and it's growing fast, and that the South still sets the tone for national politics (look at the Tennesseans and Texans who lead the White House and Capitol Hill), ignoring the South is hardly an option.
Besides, there's a rich progressive legacy in the South, and Democrats are far from dead: There are four Southern Democratic governors, hundreds of Democratic state legislators, and in six of thirteen Southern states, more registered voters identify as Democrats than Republicans.
I think it is great that there is all this talk about "The South." I am not from the South, and all I know about it is what I read, or what people tell me who have lived in The South.
southernstudies.org /facingsouth/2005/03/southern-strategies.asp   (1706 words)

  
 African-American Pamphlet Collection: Related Resources
A selection of manuscript and printed text and images drawn from the collections of the Ohio Historical Society illuminates the history of fl Ohio from 1850 to 1920, a story of slavery and freedom, segregation and integration, religion and politics, migrations and restrictions, harmony and discord, and struggles and successes.
Among the voices heard are those of some of the defendants and plaintiffs themselves as well as those of abolitionists, presidents, politicians, slave owners, fugitive and free territory slaves, lawyers and judges, and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.
His photographs--most intended to demonstrate the wretched conditions of African-American schools in the South and to show how they could be improved--provide a unique view of southern education during the first half of the twentieth century.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/aapchtml/aapcrel.html   (1764 words)

  
 Taipei Times - archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Forty South African members of parliament (MPs), past and present, were to be charged with fraud yesterday in the biggest corruption scandal in the country's post-apartheid history.
The newspaper revealed how members of parliament used travel vouchers, issued by the government to allow them to visit their constituencies, to go on luxurious holidays unrelated to their work.
South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) questioned 135 MPs, representing almost every party in the 400-member national assembly.
www.taipeitimes.com /News/world/archives/2005/01/25/2003220895   (576 words)

  
 Inspired Mind :: Health & Spirit ::
Vuvu - short for 'vuvuzela', the infamous horn ubiqutous at local soccer matches - aims at putting together a masterplan for a new South Africa, a compendium for a decent life for all, not just the old white rich and the new fl rich.
Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are; they have all put programs in your mind.
You have been programmed by parents, by priests, politicians, teachers - you have been programmed for only one thing: Just go on improving upon yourself.
www.helmar.org /index.php?subcat=26   (11936 words)

  
 Shady USAID exposed as setting up South African privatisation agency in disguise : IMC-SA
New research from the PSI’s Research Unit, based at the University of Greenwich in London reveals that the water multinationals privatising water in the developing world are dogged by corruption, close to financial collapse and have long track records of exploiting the poor.
The meeting came out with a confidential document that PSI obtained a copy of: this document, prepared by a USA consultancy called PADCO, was solely aimed at persuading South African municipalities that privatisation of water is not a bad idea.
PADCO also organised a funded world jamboree for 12 South African officials to observe privatisation of water in South America and Australia.
southafrica.indymedia.org /news/2002/08/1677.php   (1658 words)

  
 DocSouth: image subject list for First-Person Narratives of the American South
DocSouth: image subject list for First-Person Narratives of the American South
Image Subject List of First-Person Narratives of the American South
Click on any subject to see a list of images related to that subject.
docsouth.unc.edu /fpn/tgm.html   (266 words)

  
 African American Studies
It is not an exhaustive list; please consult a reference librarian for help in locating additional materials.
E 185.96.B3 Dictionary and Catalog of African-American Folklore of the South.
Witness for Freedom: African American Voices on Race, Slavery, and Emancipation.
www.southalabama.edu /univlib/guides/africanamerican.htm   (562 words)

  
 South URL List
Below is a list of interesting web sites.
Lois Lowry - This website is maintained by the author herself and contains a biography, FAQ list, speeches, and a number of photos about Lowry's life and her work.
The Valley of the Shadow - View the story of the Civil War through the eyes of two communities, one in the North and one in the South.
www.stcloud.k12.mn.us /~south/SouthURLList.html   (4335 words)

  
 NPR : African-American Vote Key in South Carolina
NPR : African-American Vote Key in South Carolina
Morning Edition, January 26, 2004 · South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary, Feb. 3, is the first where African-American voters will play a pivotal role, accounting for a third to a half of all votes cast.
The candidates are tailoring their campaigns to win fl support.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1617137   (124 words)

  
 South African ministries, etc.
1912 South African Native National Congress founded 1923 renamed African National Congress Presidents-general 1912 - 1917 John Langalibalele Dube (b.
1914 National Party founded 5 Dec 1934 united with South African Party to form United Party 1939 National Party recreated Dec 1998 renamed New National Party 1 Mar 2006 dissolved Leaders 1914 - 5 Dec 1934 J.B.M. Hertzog (1st time) (b.
1911 South African Party established 5 Dec 1934 South African Party and National Party merge as United Party 28 Jun 1977 dissolved Leaders 1911 - 27 Aug 1919 Louis Botha (b.
www.rulers.org /safrgov.html   (1736 words)

  
 Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
How to Submit a New Link to Cyndi's List
How to Report a Broken Link Found on Cyndi's List
Hispanic, Central & South America, & the West Indies   
www.cyndislist.com   (433 words)

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