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14 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is re-elected as President of South Africa for a second term. [21] 19 June – Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for a second term as President of South Africa. [22] 20 June – Democratic Alliance MP Renaldo Gouws is suspended after old videos of him making derogatory and inciteful remarks against black people emerge ...
The South African Students Congress (SASCO) is a South African student organisation currently led by Alungile Kamtshe as the organization's President.SASCO was founded in September 1991 at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, through the merger of the South African National Student Congress (SANSCO) and the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS).
Malaika Wa Azania was born in Zone 8 Meadowlands, Soweto, on 19 October 1991. She was raised by a single mother, Dipuo Mahlatsi, a student activist who was part of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) and member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL).
The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is an independent public policy and foreign relations think tank based in Johannesburg, South Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1934 in Cape Town , the institute has been located on the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand since 1944.
Enemy of the People: How Jacob Zuma stole South Africa and how the people fought back (2017) is a book by Adriaan Basson and Pieter du Toit, political journalists from South Africa about the creation by President Jacob Zuma of a patronage network embedded in the South African government; the process of state capture that took place under Zuma's leadership; those that supported Zuma and those ...
Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom is a 2023 book by ex-Eskom CEO, André de Ruyter. [1] It chronicles his three years at South Africa's state energy provider, Eskom. Fearing political forces might prevent its sale, the book was released ahead of schedule, and without warning, on the 14th of May, 2023.
The Union of South Africa adopted a system of governance based on the political system of the United Kingdom. The British monarch was the ceremonial head of state of South Africa and was represented by a Governor-General. Real political power lay in the hands of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The basic ideas of this system such as a three ...
In 1982, COSAS adopted the theme; Student-worker action and promoted the formation of youth congresses to serve the interests of young workers and unemployed youth. [ 1 ] : 371 The organization provided essential support to striking workers and community struggles around issues such as transport increases, rent hikes and the like.