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Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… was the unrelenting spiral of violence. De Klerk made it his explanation for the delay in commencing multi-party … of April 1991, President F. W de Klerk…
EventA 19 year old Mzwandile Kekana is testifying at the trial of 14 Cookhouse people charged with murdering a teacher.
… not see who killed Mr Mnyalatyo, but he saw injuries on his head. They were distracted from killing Mr Kekana, who …
EventGeneral Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies
… (ANC). Plaatjie’s contributions to literature include his translation of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, Julius …
Zindzi Mandela is born
… African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born in a year …
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… and was involved in sabotage operations until 1988. His main targets were government buildings, economic …
EventC.J. Langenhoven dies in Oudtshoorn
… Stem van Suid-Afrika (The Call of South Africa), died at his home 'Arbeidsgenot' in Oudtshoorn. Die Stem, and its …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… the freedom of mobility of the migrant worker and his family, it further created additional difficulties within …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… years was imposed. Naidoo, Secretary-General of COSATU, his deputy Mufamadi and Mayekiso, Secretary-General of the …
EventANC denies responsibilities for the unrest in homelands
… leader, Walter Sisulu, denied allegations levelled at his party by the South African parliament and press that the …
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… In his address to the senate foreign relations committee, United …
EventFirst formal school opens at the Cape
… Jan van Riebeeck, commander at the Cape, wrote in his diary that a school for slaves has been started. …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai is cleared of Treason charges
… political consultant Ari Ben-Menashe. After the verdict his supporters cheered and danced outside the court, though …
EventSA athlete Ernst van Dyk is hard done by at Paralympic games
… on the outside and cut the South African off, forcing his left wheel off the ground. As a result Van Dyk's manager …
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… but former State President F.W. de Klerk relinquished his NNP membership, saying the party has gone too far in …
EventThe ANC leader in the KwaZulu Natal midlands, Sifiso Nkabinde, is expelled from the ANC
… Freedom Party (IFP) members in KwaZulu Natal. After his expulsion from the ANC, Nkabinde joined the United …
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… (UDM) on 27 September 1997. In later years Meyer resigned his position and left politics completely to pursue other …
EventMandela reshuffles the cabinet
… by the finance minister, Chris Liebenberg, to relinquish his cabinet post for private reasons, president Nelson …
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… was a trader and collector of oriental art, remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street complex from being …
EventDinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers
… during the South African War (Second Anglo Boer War). His reasons were that the war was between the English and …
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… and supplied Charles Darwin with valuable information for his work On the Origin of Species (1859). She was elected to …
EventDaniel Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born
… volumes of poetry and drama, but he is best known for his novels. These include Vergeet Nil (1913; "Don't Forget"), …
EventMalawi’s Kamuzu Banda losses election
… age of 101 and despite the controversy, which surrounded his rule, he was given a state funeral. References: …
EventMarks Maponyane, former Bafana Bafana striker, is born in Meadowlands, Soweto
… Dynamos. After he retired, Maponyane focused more on his motivational speaking which he had begun while still a …
EventJoe Kachingwe is appointed Malawi’s first Ambassador to South Africa
… Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster in May 1970. Vorster and his party, the National Party (NP) were enthusiastically …
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… African government's policy of apartheid while declaring his support for the African National Congress (ANC). Five …
EventA new right-wing group Aksie Eie Toekoms (Action for our Own Future) (AET) is founded in Pretoria.
… (NP) and its leaning towards desegregation. Lubbe and his peers, inspired by the father ofAapartheid, H.F. Verwoed, …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions
… Studies. From Denver, Colorado, Mr. Boatman spends most of his free time enjoying the outdoors and traveling. Thomas plans on attending law school where he…
Archive2017 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2017
… years old this year, had he lived. This selfless patriot his adult life to a tireless pursuit of the liberation of our … a lasting legacy for all South…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… in Man or to set a limit beyond which the human being in his black form might not strive to serve his Creator to the best of his ability. To remain neutral…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… was exiled in the mid-'60s after the publication abroad of his book documenting the social experience of blacks in South … dive in Cape Town where, as far as…