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General elections were held in South Africa on 18 October 1961. [1] They were the first general elections after South Africa became a republic following the 1960 South African referendum. The National Party under H. F. Verwoerd won a majority in the House of Assembly.
This article lists elections for legislative or quasi-legislative bodies in South Africa. Parliamentary general elections ... 8 October 1961; 30 March 1966; 22 April ...
The 1961 South African presidential election was the first to be held in South Africa.It occurred as a result of the referendum of November 5, 1960, which ratified the transformation of the Union of South Africa into the Republic of South Africa, and the adoption of a new constitution organizing the new state's political institutions.
14 – Decimal Day - Decimalisation of currency replaces the South African pound with the South African rand. [3] March. 15 – South Africa announces its intended withdrawal from the Commonwealth upon becoming a republic. Prime Minister Verwoerd was attending the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference at the time.
1961 New Democratic Party leadership election; 1961 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election; 1961 Yukon general election; United States: 1961 United States gubernatorial elections; 1961 Cleveland mayoral election; 1961 Dallas mayoral election; 1961 Los Angeles mayoral election; 1961 Manchester mayoral election; 1961 New ...
The African National Congress party lost its majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system ...
The Union of South Africa was created on 31 May 1910 by the South Africa Act 1909, an act of the British Parliament. The House of Assembly (the lower house of the newly created Parliament of South Africa) and the provincial councils were elected by first-past-the-post voting in single-member electoral divisions. The franchise in these elections ...
South Africa’s diplomacy under the ANC has drawn attention for its historic pro-Moscow stance that continued after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago.