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EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the 1991 Nobel Prize for … [accessed 27 September 2013]| africanhistory, This week in African History, 03 October …
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… The South African parliament under President F.W. de Klerk adopted the … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a…
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… The African National Congress (ANC) Consultative Conference, … The Codesa file . Durban: Madiba Publishers, p. 288.|South African History Online, (2013), …
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
… The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party … ifp,' African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party …
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… South Africa from 1920 until 1990. This meant that South African laws applied to Namibia. These included the laws … 2014]|SAHO, The Battle of Cuito…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… the failed coup Malebane fled the country and joined the African National Congress (ANC). He successfully applied to … South African History Online, Rocky…
EventMozambique and Soviet Union reject Margo Commission’s finding
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political …
EventA police mob attacks big SWAPO rally
… riot police disrupted a rally organised by the South West African Political Organisation (SWAPO). The meeting was held …
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… and were forcibly removed from GM premises by the South African Defence Force and riot police. Reference: Niekerk, P. …
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… car detonated the landmine. The day after this attack, the African National Congress (ANC) announced from Lusaka that it …
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
… in black townships where large contingents of South African Defence Force troops had been deployed to enforce …
EventSoweto High School under siege
… South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of …
EventSA TV Producer reported killed in Air crash
… Adele Lorenzo, South African TV producer, was reported killed in a plane crash in …
EventEvidence found at Barberton confirms theory of life on earth as early as about 3.4 billion years ago
… University in the United States, assisted locally by South African geologist Nicolas Beukes, found evidence of life on …
EventSecond biggest archaeological discovery of the century at Sterkfontein
… of the 20th century was documented in the South African Journal of Science on this date. Dr Ron Clark of the …
EventSA military integration is disputed
… The transition in the South African Defence Force (later SANDF) was not achieved without …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… about the realisation of a fully integrated South African society and it was he that coined the term 'Rainbow …
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… that the British had armed Black people during the South African War, though in many cases they had done the same. …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… Verwoerd is born Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, former South African prime minister and chief architect of apartheid was …
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… protests from the international community and several African states, France continued its nuclear tests for years. …
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor himself was …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Trial Defence Fund. From the emergence of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in 1955, Bob Hepple … www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk (Accessed: 02…
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… Carneson, a listed communist, member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) and former editor of the New … SAHO, ‘Fred Carneson’ , from South…
EventBlack, Coloured and Indian churches issues a statement on Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act
… the most controversial legislative enactments that South African government had ever passed. Immorality Act … (Accessed: 08 February 2013)|South African…
ArchiveYouth and the building of the nation
… The paper further questions the effect of the South African state of affairs has on the youth and therein stems …
EventThe Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports on rape in Khayelitsha
… of sexual violence against women and children in South African townships. Simelela provides medical care and …
EventLord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria
… In May 1900, at the height of the South African War (1899-1902), Field Marshall Lord Roberts and his … Boddy-Evans, A., ‘This Day in African History: 27 May…
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… family before they gave it to the government. South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement …
Event270 workers charged with Marikana Massacre
… that took place on the 16 August 2012,whereby the South African police services opened fire and killed thirty- four … [Accessed: 19 August 2014]|World…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… The Bantu Women's League was adopted and relaunched by the African National Congress as its Women's League structure in …