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- The 1979 South African presidential election pitted the President of the South African Senate Marais Viljoen, backed by the ruling National Party, against the former United Party leader De Villiers Graaff, backed by the New Republic Party, and the Deputy Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand, Guerino Bozzoli, supported by the Progressive Federal Party.
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Results of the election. Viljoen (orange) received 155 votes while Graaf received 23 and Bozzoli 17. The 1979 South African presidential election pitted the President of the South African Senate Marais Viljoen, backed by the ruling National Party, against the former United Party leader De Villiers Graaff, backed by the New Republic Party, and ...
- 88.64%
- Marais Viljoen
- 155
- National
January. 8 – South Africa and Lesotho sign a monetary agreement. 14 – Police clash with Umkhonto we Sizwe guerrillas near Zeerust and arrest one while six escape into Botswana. 23 – A bomb explodes near the New Canada railway station in Soweto. 24 – A large amount of explosives is found and defused on the railway line between Fort ...
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.
1978 South African presidential election. Results of the election. Vorster (orange) received 173 votes while Graaf received 19 and Bozzoli 12. Following the death of State President Nicolaas Diederichs on August 21, 1978, a new election for the South African head of state was held which pitted former Prime Minister John Vorster, backed by the ...
- 92.73%
- B. J. Vorster
- 173
- National
The elections in the Bantustans/homelands stopped in the late 1980s. In 1994, Homelands stopped to exist and they were re-incorporated into new South Africa, and they were absorbed into the new provinces. Since 1994, elections in South Africa are held for National and Provincial legislatures. The multiracial elections followed a five year cycle ...
African National Congress Timeline 1970-1979. By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention and banning orders, further crippling the political mobilisation – for instance, the detention of Winnie Mandela with 21 other people in 1970.
The 1984 South African presidential election was the first to be held under the new South African Constitution of 1983, which abolished the office of Prime Minister and merged its powers into the position of State President, who was now both head of state and government. According to the new basic law, the State President was to be elected by ...
