Established in 1993 as a multiparty council to facilitate the transition to democracy. The TEC was to level the playing field and create a climate for free political activity in the run-up to the elections in April 1994. The TEC was made up of a management committee and several sub-councils: law and order; stability and security; defence; intelligence; foreign affairs; status of women; finance; and regional, local government and traditional authorities.
Established by Mandela in 1995 as a way for South Africa to heal after decades of brutal abuse in the apartheid era.The work of the TRC was done through the Human Rights Violation Committee investigating human rights abuses occurring from 1960 to 1994; the Reparation and Repatriation Committee dealing with compensation and the Amnesty Committee would consider granting amnesty from prosecution to those perpetrators provided they make full disclosure and acted politically. In 1998 the TRC delivered its report to Mandela, and completed its work in 2003.
Umkhonto weSizwe, meaning ‘spear of the nation’, was founded in 1961 and is commonly known by the abbreviation MK. Nelson Mandela was its first commander-in-chief. It became the military wing of the ANC. On the eve of the 1994 elections MK was disbanded and its soldiers incorporated into the newly formed South African National Defence Force (SANDF) with soldiers from the apartheid South African Defence Force, Bantustan defence forces, IFP’s self-protection units and Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA), the military wing of the PAC.
A non-racial coalition with hundreds of affiliated civic, church, students', workers' and other organisations. It launched in 1983, initially to fight the segregated Tricameral Parliament. By 1987 many activists were imprisoned or detained. Though not formally ANC-aligned, it adopted the Freedom Charter and demanded the release of political prisoners. In 1989, following restrictions on UDF and COSATU, the two began cooperating in a loose alliance called the Mass Democratic Movement. After the liberation movements were unbanned in 1990, the UDF disbanded.
In terms of the Accord between the Freedom Front, ANC and National Party, signed only on the eve of the 1994 elections, a council was established in 1994 as a constitutional mechanism to enable proponents of the idea of a Volkstaat to constitutionally pursue the establishment of such a Volkstaat. Its final report, issued in 1999, was handed to the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities established in 2003.
The Times is a South African daily newspaper now available online only. It was an offshoot of The Sunday Times, to whose subscribers it was delivered gratis; non-subscribers paid R2.50 per edition in the early years. It was owned by Tiso Blackstar Group, formerly known as Times Media Group.
Anti-apartheid movement targeting black youth and workers. Promoted pride in black identity. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the political vacuum created by the continued banning and imprisonment of members of the ANC and the PAC. Had its origins in the South African Students Organisation led by Steve Biko, who founded the movement.
Established in December 1993 to cater for the needs of Christians from all over South Africa. It is a party that would not only represent bible believing Christians, but also those who have a high regard for moral values. The ACDP vision is based on Christian and family values, and aims to rebuild the foundation of the nation by protecting families from the destructive effects of gambling, prostitution, pornography and abortion.
