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APDUSA Views - Issue No. 62: Scoundrels in High Places … In Fairness to Jonas Savimbi, 11 July 2002
ArchiveCall for sanctions against South Africa:Address to the International Conference against Sanctions, Paris, May 21, 1981
Paper presented by Oliver Thambo at the International Conference of Sanctions against South Africa, held in Paris on May 21, 1981. It covers the purpose of…
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The Minister of Justice banns all meetings to protest against arrest, trial or conviction of any person.
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Johannes Jan Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder and politician who helped to frame t
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Congo President Laurent Kabila orders a $20 million, 267-carat diamond returned to local businessman, Alphonse Ngoyi Kasanji, w
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It is announced that South African writer Nadine Gordimer is to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Britain announces a decision to write off the debt of six African countries, a package of millions of pounds.
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Six South-West Africans, all members of the National Party, are elected to the South African Parliament.
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South African companies donate twelve tons of food worth R100 000 to "the people of Moscow".
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Several gatherings are held to introduce the first Bible in Afrikaans, culminating with the one in Bloemfontein.
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The Medicines Control Council (MCC) threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation ca
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Winnie Mandela tells a 3000-strong crowd in Welkom that the ANC is committed to the armed struggle.
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Great Britain’s Prime Minister John Major pays an official state visit to South Africa and addresses Parliament.
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A Black teachers’ association, the Progressive Teachers’ Congress (PROTECO) is secretly launched in the Transvaal to fill the v
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Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad are admitted to the United Nations (UN), 105th-108th countries.
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The Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 765(1992). Pursuant to that resolution, the Secretary-General appointed a Sp
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Fietas, Johannesburg: Indian representatives declared that the area near Diepkloof is acceptable to the Indian community in a m
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The Reverend Daniel Lindley, missionary and minister to the Voortrekkers, is born in Ten Mile Creek, Pennsylvania.
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Rhodesia is asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic summer games because of its racial policies.
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ANC Secretary-General Cyril Ramaphosa met with Constitutional Affairs Minister Roelf Meyer to discuss possible compromises on A
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President P.W. Botha says ANC members can return to South Africa with “amnesty” if they reject violence.
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The Transvaal National Union, political organisation established to further the interests of the Uitlanders (Foreigners), is fo
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The Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging (ATKV), Afrikaans cultural organisation whose aim was to promote Afrikaans and the well
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President Nelson Mandela makes a major policy speech in Parliament to mark his first 100 days as president.
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The first four Bantu Affairs Administration Boards are gazetted. They are intended to facilitate centralised administrative con
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The Security Council unanimously adopts resolution 765(1992). Pursuant to that resolution, the Secretary-General appointed a Sp
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South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n
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South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n
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The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Christian fundamentalist rebel group trying to overthrow the Ugandan government since 1987,
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