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The 1955 Labour Party leadership election was held following the resignation of Clement Attlee. Attlee was Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951 and stayed on as party leader until he lost the 1955 general election .
The National Party and the South African Party merged in 1934 as the United Party (UP). When that party split, over the issue of South African participation in the Second World War, the Labour Party participated in a wartime coalition under the Premiership of Jan Smuts formed in 1939. Walter Madeley, the Labour leader, left the coalition in ...
The leader of the opposition in South Africa is the leader of the largest ... Labour Party: 5 ... The South African Constitution, by H.J. May (3rd edition 1955, ...
The Labour Party had long attracted aspiring leaders from Africa and had developed elaborate plans before the war. Implementing them overnight with an empty treasury proved too challenging. [ 182 ] A major military base was built in Kenya, and the African colonies came under an unprecedented degree of direct control from London.
The South African Railways places the first of sixty Class 5E, Series 1 electric locomotives in mainline service. Designed by English Electric and built by Vulcan Foundry , it is the prototype of what would eventually become the most prolific locomotive type to ever run on South African rails.
Selope Thema, South African political activist and leader (1886–1955) Mary Thipe, anti-apartheid and human rights activist (1917–2002) Mohammed Tikly, South African educator and struggle veteran (1939–2020) Ahmed Timol, anti-apartheid activist, political leader and activist in the underground South African Communist Party (SACP) (1941–1971)
This is a list of the heads of state of South Africa from the foundation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 to the present day. From 1910 to 1961 the head of state under the South Africa Act 1909 was the Monarch, who was the same person as the Monarch of the United Kingdom and of the other Dominions/Commonwealth realms.
Increasingly prominent as a trade union organiser, he became the official organiser of the South African ASE in 1904 and its president in 1905. [2] Andrews was the President of the Witwatersrand Trades and Labour Council and the Political Labour League in 1905, the Labour Representation Committee in 1906 and the South African Labour Party in ...