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EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… be contracted by anyone and is currently not curable. The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) says the evidence that …
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… wide support - students, religious groups, and even the United Nations. Activities of the ECC were curtailed by the …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… unbanning of the ANC and continued to practice law in the United Kingdom. While she claims that her confession in 2003 …
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… composing an initial detachment of 93 soldiers for the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… Boesack was one of the founders and prime movers of the United Democratic Front (UDF). By the mid 1980s the UDF …
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… and this marked the start of the genocide. By the time the United Nations (UN) troops had been stationed in Rwanda, …
EventThe Pretoria Supreme Court orders for an inquiry into the doctors' treatment of Steve Biko at the time of his death
… death. Even close allies of South Africa, Britain and the United States of America, expressed deep concern over his …
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… by road due to an air embargo imposed on Libya by the United Nations. In 1999, Mandela successfully mediated in a …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… “The Turbulent 1950s—Women as defiant activists”. [19] United Nations Department of Political and Security Council … United Nations Department of Political…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… of the ANC to put in place a non-racial, non- sexist, united and democratic South Africa. It was in Kabwe, where … shall set out what the ANC will continue…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… adopted by the ANC in 1949; the year after the National party came to power. The Programme of Action led to the …
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… negotiate with the Liberatory Organisation as a political party. The interview was published in the Mail on Sunday, a …
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… that Zwelithini, and by extension, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), were closer to the FA than they were to the ANC. …
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… Congress (ANC) leaders, including South African Communist Party Secretary General Chris Hani, Cyril Ramaphosa, Steve …
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… Movement (AWB) and a splinter group the Boerestaat Party were allowed to go ahead with no police interference. …
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
… Uganda, returned to power for the second time after multi-party elections. The election outcomes were contested as the …
EventChief George Mzimvubu Mathanzima, former Prime Minister of Transkei, dies
… they founded the Transkeian National Independence Party (TNIP) which pressed for 'independence' from South …
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… government colluding with members of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) to destabilise the country and disrupt the …
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… prevent the atrocities that were committed under National Party (NP) rule but insisted that they were not aware of the …
EventPresident Paul Kruger (78), dies of heart failure in Clarens, Switzerland
… When the Great Trek started in 1836, he joined the trek party of Hendrik Potgieter, and later settled on a farm at …
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… (Cabinet Minister) in 1924 upon rejoining the Conservative Party. Churchill was outspoken on a number of issues, such as …
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… year, 1955. Other organisations, such as the Liberal Party, the Labour Party, even the United Party and the Nationalist Party, had been invited to …
A History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… and silver medal at the 6th Atlanta Film Festival in the United States. 1974 Simon M Sabela's U'Deliwe was the first … their origin. Since the 1980s Ster…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… we are only at the beginning of a long journey to a truly united, democratic and prosperous South Africa in which the … and democratic tasks, and it should…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… of the seventies began, for us, with the government of the United States confidently predicting that southern Africa in … in the face of the most determined…
Message to the Special Committee against Apartheid on its 20th anniversary from O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 April 1983
… of the racist minority regime in our continent. United Nations …
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… Ferreira currently resides in Lafayette, California in the United States of America.[v] He married an American by the …
EventPatrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo Republic, is assassinated
… government and the Dwight Eisenhower, the president of the United States at the time, acting through the local agents of …
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… 1999. Mapungubwe was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural …
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… yet to bring the press under statutory control. The united stand by proprietors and editors succeeded. Vorster …