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EventMandela confirms Kerzner's contribution to the ANC
… ousted Holomisa from his seat in Parliament on 1 October 1996 after finding him guilty of misconduct and bringing the …
ArticleThe Cabinet Reshuffle of 2017
On 31 March 2017, President Jacob Zuma exercised his constitutional rights as the head of the executive branch by appointing, reshuffling and dismissing…
ArticleThe Constitution
… South African Constitution of 1996 Republic of South Africa The Republic of South Africa is …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… day? In South Africa, this day was first celebrated in 1996 when the Department of Health organised a special event …
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a visit to the Eastern Cape. His aim was to…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… suffering a nervous breakdown in the Pretoria High Court. 08 October, The Boeremag treason trial is delayed in the …
EventBoutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary General, is born
… face of the UN's inaction during humanitarian crises. In 1996, Boutros-Boutros Ghali was nominated for a second term …
EventA cargo plane crashes into a market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing at least 350 people
… On 8 February 1996 an Africa Air Antonov 32 cargo plane crashed into a … www.airliners.net [Accessed: 18 January 2012]|Reuters, (1996), Plane in Zaire Hits…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… 27 April, South Africa’s first democratic election 1994-1996 Constitutional Assembly writes the new Constitution 1995 …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… African Sharecropper, 1894-1985. Cape Town, David Philip, 1996, p.xvii. A newspaper report about a speech made by Mr T. …
EventWayne Ferreira was born on this day
… in the world in May 1995.[iii] Ferreira competed in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals in the …
EventDelagoa Bay railway line is officially opened
… The South African Military History Society, June 1996 [online] Available at …
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… instead to represent her native South Africans in the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta. She won both the 100m and 200m …
EventSt James Church massacre
… Basie Mkhumbuzi were subsequently arrested and charged in 1996. While on trail, they applied to the Truth and …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… His application for amnesty was denied and on 30 October 1996, de Kock was sentenced to 212 years in prison. The judge …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… his co-accused were cleared of all charges on 11 October 1996. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1995). Keesing's Records of …
EventThe Johannesburg Stock Exchange is established
… times throughout its existence as it grew. On 7 June 1996 the open outcry trading floor (where traders shout …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… steep: within four years South Africa hosted and won the 1996 Africa Cup of Nations, with Khumalo and Radebe central …
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
… its six units was placed in Commercial operation in April 1996. The remaining five units were added at a rate of one … its six units was placed in Commercial…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… shortfalls in social services across the country. In June 1996, the ANC government adopted a redistribution strategy to …
PlaceEthiopia
… the former military government were put on trial in April 1996 on charges that included genocide and crimes against … the former military government were put…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing process will be … The papers of the Namibia Support…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… by being a strong proponent of abortion and supporting the 1996 Choice of Termination Act. Her funeral was held at the …
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… 2010] Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Day 1-10 June 1996 (Victim: Father Michael Lapsley), (online), available …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… campaigning. Attempts were allegedly made to murder him in 1996 and he believes that, after complaining about the …
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
… a dozen sexual encounters with the president. In April 1996 Lewinsky was transferred to the Pentagon and her …
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty in 1996. Their case was heard in Cape Town on 8 July 1997, with …
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… of Cape Town (UCT) library. He died on 27 November 1996, at the age of 87. References: Feldberg Leon (1976), …
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… 1990, MK suspended the armed struggle after 29 years. In 1996 the MK Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) was …
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… detained several times after the bomb blast. In October 1996 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard … to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.|Sapa 04…