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EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was disbanded at a public ceremony in the Cape Province. This Battalion was composed primarily of the…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties - the most representative gathering of South African political groups ever assembled for…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
In what was widely regarded as move to prepare the ground for the country's first multiracial elections, President F.W. de Klerk reshuffled the cabinet. This…
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the African National Congress (ANC) and government decided to go…
EventCOMSA calls on SA to move towards election
In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA), concluded that based on its homicide rate, this country was one of the most…
EventArthur Robert Ashe Jr, prominent African American tennis player and vocal protester of apartheid, dies
Arthur Robert Ashe, a prominent African American tennis player who was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia died on 6 February 1993. He died of complications…
EventBafana Bafana draws with Nigeria
The South African national soccer team Bafana Bafana played to a goalless draw against a Nigerian team (Super Eagles) at Soccer City (FNB Stadium) Johannesburg…
EventFive women are stoned to death in Somalia
Five women who were accused and convicted of adultery in Hargeisa, Somalia, were publicly stoned to death by cheerful villagers. The punitive measures enforced…
EventBafana Bafana wins against Botswana
The South African national soccer team Bafana Bafana registered a convincing 2-0 victory over the national team of neighbouring Botswana, two years after its…
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
The African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee (NEC) presents five demands to be met during the year in order to facilitate South Africa's…
Joseph Skosana is killed
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi was first appointed to one of the African seats in Kenya's Legislative Council in 1955. Moi then won an elected seat on the council…
EventHelen Joseph dies
South African political and human rights activist, Helen Beatrice May Joseph, died at the age of 87 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She came to SA in 1931 and,…
EventSADF officers dismissed
State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two generals and four brigadiers, were being…
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
After a three day meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC), the meeting adopted a new strategic policy, which…
De Klerk rejects Goldstone’s request
F.W. De Klerk appoints Lt-Gen. Pierre Steyn
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
After the Goldstone Commission's first disclosure of the complicity of elements of the South African Defence Force (SADF) in violence in South Africa on 16…
Professor Hlalanathi Sibankulu, ANC’s regional executive committee member, is found dead
EventFirst international tour in 27 years for South African Proteas
On this momentous occasion, South Africans were welcomed in India with garlands and standing ovations, and played to capacity crowds. South African cricket,…
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
Former Minister of Education and professor of political science at the Rand Afrikaans University, Stoffel van der Merwe (52), who left the cabinet at the…
EventFive American nuns are shot to death in Liberia
Liberia was 'founded' by the American Colonisation Society (ACS) in 1822 and was to serve as the home of freed slaves from the United States. Although Liberia…
Amnesty Bill is approved
EventEuropean Community observers arrive in SA
The first group of European Community (EC) observers, including some police officers, lawyers and economists, arrived in South Africa to assist in preventing…
EventReggie Hadebe ANC Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, is gunned down
African National Congress (ANC) Regional Executive Committee member and Media officer in the Natal Midlands Region, Mr Reggie Hadebe, was gunned down in an…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
The African National Congress (ANC) released a report by an internal commission of inquiry (the Skweyiya Commission), appointed to investigate detainee abuse…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
The Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation (Goldstone Commission), with Mr Justice Richard Goldstone as chairman,…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
The Pan Africanist Congress 's military wing, the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) burnt down the farm house of Edmund Middleton of Fouriesburg on 10…
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
A meeting titled "Conference for Concerned South Africans" brought together some homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties. Amongst those present…
EventCelebration of Nigeria’s Day of Independence cancelled due to air disaster
Nigeria's thirty-second independence anniversary celebration was called off at the last minute by General Ibrahim Babangida's military government as result of…