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Hoexter Commission, The

  • ZA-COM-07575
  • Corporate body
  • 29 November 1979 - 5 April 1984
The Commission of Enquiry into the Structure and Functioning of the Courts (the Hoexter Commission) was appointed on 29 November 1979. Its terms of reference were, to inquire into the structure and functioning of the courts . . . and to make recommendations .. . on the desirability of changes which may lead to the more efficient and expeditious
administration of justice. The Chairman was Justice GG Hoexter.

Mail & Guardian

  • ZA-COM-06153
  • Corporate body
  • 1985 -
Began as the Weekly Mail, an alternative newspaper by a group of journalists in 1985 after the closure of two leading liberal newspapers, The Rand Daily Mail and Sunday Express.
The Weekly Mail criticised the government and its apartheid policies, which led to the banning of the paper in 1988. The paper was renamed the Weekly Mail & Guardian from 30 July 1993. The London-based Guardian Media Group (GMG), the publisher of The Guardian, became the majority shareholder of the print edition in 1995, and the name was changed to Mail & Guardian.

World (Newspaper)

  • Corporate body
  • 1932 -
The Bantu World was founded in April 1932 for an intended audience of black middle-class elite by Bertram Paver, a white ex-farmer. The Bantu World's first editor was Victor Selope-Thema who served until 1952. The World merged with Ilanga lase Natal (Natal Sun) in 1935, under Selope-Thema's editorship. Under Dr. Jacob Nhlapo, editor from 1953 to 1957, the name of the newspaper was changed to its current name, The World. Tselito Percy Peter Qoboza (1938-1988) became editor in chief of The World in 1974. It was banned in 1977, and most of its staff was either detained and/or banned after which it closed down.

Herdbouys

  • ZA-COM-07593
  • Corporate body
  • 1991 -
Advertising agency

Orbis AI

  • Corporate body

Liverpool Echo

  • ZA-COM-07599
  • Corporate body
It is a newspaper published by Trinity Mirrior North West and North Wales. It is published Monday to Sunday, and is Liverpool's daily newspaper.

Helen Suzman Foundation

  • ZA-COM-07625
  • Corporate body
Founded on 1993, in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is an independent Foundation dedicated to promoting liberal democratic values and human rights in post-apartheid South Africa through its research, publications, litigation and submissions to the South African Parliament. The foundation was established in honour of Helen Suzman.

Global Fund Against AIDS, TB and Malaria

  • ZA-COM-07633
  • Corporate body
Founded on 28 January 2002. It is an international financing and partnership organization that aims to attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to support attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations.

Mandela and Tambo

  • ZA-COM-06251
  • Corporate body
  • 1952 - 1960
When it was established in 1952, it was the only black-owned law firm. However, it was not the first as there had been others that had been established earlier.

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)

  • ZA-COM-07671
  • Corporate body
Founded on November 1957. Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is an organization that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by the United Kingdom, international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulations through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Black Panther Party

  • ZA-COM-07682
  • Corporate body
Founded on 15 October 1966 and dissolved in 1982.

Black Lawyers Association

  • ZA-COM-07684
  • Corporate body
It is a voluntary association open to all lawyers in the Republic of South Africa regardless of race; sex; political belief, religion or area/type of practice. Black Lawyers Association draws its membership from attorneys, advocates, legal advisors, law students and judicial officers.

Black Economic Empowerment (BEE)

  • ZA-COM-07689
  • Corporate body
Selective programme launched by the South African government to redress the inequalities of Apartheid by giving black, (African, Coloureds, Indians and Chinese) South African citizens economic privileges.

Africa Confidential

  • ZA-COM-07696
  • Corporate body
Journal, fortnightly newsletter covering politics and economics in Africa. It was established in 1960 and is owned by the British Asempa Limited.

African Students' Association (ASA)

  • ZA-COM-07694
  • Corporate body
Founded on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black student life in the country.

Basutoland National Party

  • ZA-COM-07728
  • Corporate body
Founded in 1959 as the Basutoland National Party by Leabua Jonathan. He was Prime Minister from 1965 until the coup of 1986.

Basutoland Congress Party (BCP)

  • ZA-COM-07727
  • Corporate body
Founded in 1952 by Ntsu Mokhehle and Potlako Leballo. It is a Pan-Africanist and left -wing political party in Lesotho. The party was renamed Basutoland Congress Party (BCP) in 1957 and retained this name after independence in 1966.

United South African National Party

  • ZA-COM-07809
  • Corporate body
Found in 1934 and dissolved in 1977. The United Party was formed by a merger of Prime Minister Barry Hertzog's National Party with the rival South African Party of Jan Smuts plus the remnants of the Unionist Party. The full name was the United South African National Party although it was generally called the United Party

South African Police Service (SAPS)

  • ZA-COM-01008
  • Corporate body
Founded on 27 January 1995. The South African Police Service is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. In 1913 to 1994 it was first South African Police (SAP), after South Africa's transition to majority rule in 1994, the South African Police was reorganized into the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Solidarity

  • ZA-COM-07906
  • Corporate body

Ossewabrandwag

  • ZA-COM-07916
  • Corporate body
Founded in 1938 by Johannes Frederik Janse Hans Rensburg, to formally represent Afrikaner nationalism inspired by the Great Trek centenary celebrations.

South African Development Community (SADC)

  • ZA-COM-08274
  • Corporate body
Founded on 17 August 1992. It is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. Its goal is to further socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security cooperation among 16 Southern African countries.
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