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A great gathering of Xhosa chiefs occurs in King Williams Town, where Cape Governor Sir Harry Smith explains his Eastern Frontier policy
De La Rey is born
EventLiberia is established
On 26 July 1847 the Liberian Declaration of Independence was signed and Liberia became a sovereign nation. The story of Liberia is different from other African…
Winnie Mandela sues Sydney Mufamadi and George Fivaz
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
President F.W. de Klerk announces the calling up of military reservists to curb political violence will top the agenda of the forthcoming multiparty political…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced the suspension of its active participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP…
EventOfficial inauguration of the Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court, with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson as president, was formally opened by President Nelson Mandela on the morning of 14 February 1995…
EventMadikizela Mandela is accused of misuse of funds
South Africa's deputy minister of arts, culture, science and technology and the ANC Women's League president, Nomzamo Nobandla Winnifred Madikizela-Mandela …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
On 25 January 1995, King Moshoeshoe II was formally reinstated as King of Lesotho. Moshoeshoe had a turbulent reign over Lesotho as he was twice dethroned,…
EventJoe Slovo dies
Joe Slovo, the communist intellectual widely credited with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's national reconciliation, died after a long battle…
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
The legacy of apartheid is characterized by great political and socio-economic inequality. In order to address this, the African National Congress (ANC) along…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
The Angolan government under President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the rebel organisation, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) of…
EventSpringboks wallop Scotland
After the demise of Apartheid, the South African rugby team, (Springboks/Amabokoboko) went to Murrayfield, Edinburgh in Scotland to engage their Scottish…
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
The Restitution of Land Rights Act, restoring the rights of those dispossessed by discriminatory land legislation dating back to the 1913 Land Act, was passed…
EventRDP White Paper is tabled in Parliament
The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) White Paper, which was put before the parliament, called for an expeditious programme to ensure that the…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
The government discharged 2,221 trainees who had gone absent without leave in October from the newly instituted South African National Defence Force (SANDF)…
Johan Heyns, influential church leader and former moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church is murdered
Disputes between Buthelezi and Zwelithini continue
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
Haiti's recorded history began with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The island was named Hispaniola and became the territory of the Spanish crown…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
Problems with the integration of " uMkhonto we Sizwe" (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Azanian People's Liberation Army …
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
A heated dispute between Mangosutho Buthelezi, Minister of Home Affairs and leader of Inkatha Freedom Party, and his nephew King Goodwill Zwelithini, escalated…
Protest by former liberation fighters
Bafana Bafana beats Madagascar
EventSouth Africa signs SADC treaty
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was originally known as the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SADCC). It was formed in 1…
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
Rwanda, much like the rest of the African continent, was ruled by colonial powers that left a legacy of ethnic and class divisions. The Tutsi had been the…
EventNelson Mandela delivers a speech marking his first 100 days in office
On 18 August 1994, the first democratically elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, delivered a speech to the joint sitting of…
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
Between April and mid July 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Rwanda's Hutu regime. The catalyst for the genocide…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri Tsafendas, the parliamentary messenger who…
EventPresident Nelson Mandela announces his intentions to promote national unity
South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela announced that in order to promote national unity he was willing to bring into government…
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
Following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government of National Unity, the United Nations (UN) Security Council finally lifted the arms…