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EventKenneth Kaunda accuses British Foreign Secretary of “kissing” apartheid
… anger was prompted by Reagan’s rejection of stronger United States (US) economic sanctions. Kaunda said; “As a …
EventUN Secretary-General Hammerskjöld arrives in Congo
… Dag Hammerskjöld, secretary-general of the United Nations (UN), arrived in the Congo to try to end the … fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… worldwide. He was also a founding member of the United Democratic Front in 1983. In 1991 he was elected …
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… On 22 August 1984 the United Democratic Front, an internal coalition of …
EventUDF is launched
… The South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front (UDF) was launched at Rocklands … SAHO, United Democratic Front , from South…
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko’s death
… The report came after world governments, including the United States of America and Britain, condemned the South …
EventSouth Africa signs a multilateral treaty prohibiting the development of biological weapons
… parties, which includes the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. …
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… for their future. The decision to withdraw came after the United States of America decided to introduce tough economic …
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… and Professor Donald R. Lowe of Stanford University in the United States, assisted locally by South African geologist …
EventWorld Refugee Day
… of forcibly displayed people to the entire world. The United National Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) campaign for …
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… This test put France in the same atomic league with the United States, the USSR and Great Britain. The test would be …
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… spotted Bol in action and convinced him to move to the United States. In America, Bol became the tallest basket ball …
EventDemonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington D.C.
… demanded a stronger anti-South Africa policy from the United States (U.S.) government. The U.S. Congressman Walter …
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… his release in 1978.In 1983, during the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Tinto was elected inaugural …
EventFive power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII
… forces led by Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States of America. The conflict was a result of old …
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and others. These liberation movements, banned …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner's contribution to the ANC
… after finding him guilty of misconduct and bringing the party into disrepute by this and other allegations. Click …
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… and leader of the opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP), resigned as leader of the PFP and as a MP. In …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… was to being the process of negotiations with National Party Government. …
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… activist and member of the South African Communist Party , was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Maputo, …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… Joshua Nkomo and his Patriotic Front-ZAPU (PF-ZAPU) party trailed Mugabe's ZANU-PF by 20-57seats in the new …
EventThe Prince Imperial of France dies in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
… in the Anglo-Zulu War when he and a British reconnaissance party were attacked by about forty Zulus in the vicinity of …
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… statement claiming that those killed were Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters; however, this was denied by reports …
EventANC’s economic plans
… (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… after finding him guilty of misconduct and bringing the party into disrepute by this and other allegations. Click …
EventBram Fischer born today
… the Orange River Colony), became a member of the Communist Party of South African (CPSA), openly participating in its …
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… proposals which exclude blacks. In 1983, the National Party (NP) Government introduced an amendment to the South …
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… multiparty system; Ondimba had led the country under a one party system since he came into power in 1967. During his 41 …
EventThe inquest into the death in detention of Dr. Neil Aggett is adjourned
… secret information relating to the South African Communist Party (SACP), and that Major Arthur Cronwright had given …
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… government with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Nkomo's party won twenty seats in the new Assembly, all in his tribal …