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EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
Oliver Tambo, former President of the African National Congress (ANC), returns to South Africa after going into exile nearly thirty years ago. Tambo was one of…
EventANC stage marches in major cities
The African National Congress (ANC) and its allies staged marches in major cities across the country in protest at the delays in the release of political…
EventBilateral talks to continue
A consensus was reached following the fall-out between the leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the continuation of talks toward…
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
A group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black 'homeland'. The dissidents…
EventHarms releases his report
The one-man Harms commission released its report on its investigations in the activities of South African Defence Force Army and South African Police counter…
National Party wins two-horse-race by-election in Randburg
EventA South African spy is released from jail
Location: back to this day in history search archive Odile Harrington, a South African convicted and imprisoned for espionage in Zimbabwe in 1987, was…
EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto after an absence of thirty years from the political arena in…
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
Zephania (Zeph) Mothopeng, President of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) since 1984 dies in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Mothopeng's death came at the time…
The ANC announces that a high level meeting has been arranged for an unspecified date with the IFP
EventNomsa Mapongwana is assassinated
Thirty-four year old Nomsa Mapongwana, wife of chairperson Michael Mapongwana of the United Democratic Front (UDF) affiliated Western Cape Civic Organisation,…
EventState of emergency is lifted in Natal
President F.W. De Klerk lifted a four year state of emergency in Natal. The state of emergency was as a result of the violence caused by a power struggle…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, Act No 49 of 1953, formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa. The Act enforced…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
Mangosuthu Buthelezi refused to attend a meeting organised by the African National Congress (ANC) and other five homeland leaders to discuss ways of ending the…
EventNic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement is assassinated.
On 2 October 1990 Nic Cruse, an employee at PC Plus, opened a parcel containing a bomb in a computer. The subsequent explosion killed Cruse, aged 23. Cruse had…
EventWinnie Mandela charged with kidnapping
Winnie Mandela was formally charged with four counts of kidnapping and of assault, and will stand trial with seven others for the events surrounding the murder…
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would hold a meeting of the two parties in Durban, in an attempt to end…
EventThe government launches ‘Operation Iron Fist’ in townships
At the height of township violence in Transvaal, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held a series of meetings to discuss means of quelling the unrest…
EventANC government tension continues
On the day that the first serious talks between the Minister of Constitutional Development, Roelf Meyer, and Cyril Ramaphosa started, ANC's Deputy President…
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ransacked the Phola Park squatter camp of East Rand leaving…
Political prisoners are released
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
Electricity in Tumahole Township, Free State was cut off after the Transvaal provincial authority decided that it would no longer provide municipalities facing…
EventMandela threatens armed struggle
African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Nelson Mandela warned that if the South African government fail to take effective steps to end the current…
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
The unbanning of the South African liberation movements on 2 February 1990 was an important milestone, which signalled a shift from being covert underground…
EventGoldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released
The report of the inquiry, led by Justice Richard Goldstone, into the shooting by the police of anti-Apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng on 26…
EventNP Natal Congress agrees to multiracial membership
With the wind of change powerfully blowing in South Africa, the National Party under the leadership of young but politically experienced F.W de Klerk, called…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
In a meeting between the Soweto People's Delegation (SPD) and,and the Transvaal Provincial Administration an agreement was reached bringing to an end a five…
EventProposal for a new constitution
Minister of Constitutional Development, Gerrit Viljoen on 27 August 1990 said that negotiations for a new South African constitution should begin in 1991 and…
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
First general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cyril Ramaphosa, and its president, James Motlatsi, were arrested in Newcastle, Natal. The…
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
The government imposed a state of emergency in 27 townships in the Vaal Reef area and banned the carrying of all weapons. The regulations introduced by…