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A referendum on ending apartheid was held in South Africa on 17 March 1992. The referendum was limited to white South African voters, [1] [2] who were asked whether or not they supported the negotiated reforms begun by State President F. W. de Klerk two years earlier, in which he proposed to end the apartheid system that had been implemented since 1948.
The song originates in the struggle against apartheid when it was first sung to protest the Afrikaner-dominated apartheid government of South Africa. [5] Supporters of the song see it as a song that articulates an important part of South Africa's history, [6] [7] is an important part of political discourse, [8] [9] and that its meaning has been ...
However, the government used its control of the South African Broadcasting Corporation to prevent "undesirable" songs from being played (which included political or rebellious music, and music with "blasphemous" or overtly sexual lyrics), and to enforce its ideal of a cultural separation between racial groups, in addition to physical separation ...
1983 South African constitutional referendum; 1992 South African apartheid referendum This page was last edited on 22 March 2022, at 09:16 (UTC). Text is ...
BANGUI (Reuters) -Central African Republic held a constitutional referendum on Sunday which, if passed, could allow President Faustin-Archange Touadera to run for a third term in 2025. Touadera ...
[6] [12] This interpretation was the result of the government relying on a literal translation of the lyrics. [13] The government was so pleased with the song that Vilakezi was praised by a bureaucrat for the song, and reportedly, had a housing application approved. [6] However, the lyrics were intended to be ironic.
The lyrics of the song demand the release of Black South African leader Nelson Mandela, who had been imprisoned by the White South African government on Robben Island since 1962. The song became enormously popular, and turned into an unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement. [1] [2] It became
Dozens of troops from Russia's Wagner private military company have arrived in Central African Republic to help secure a constitutional referendum on July 30 that could see the president extend ...