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EventPolitical activists seek refuge in the British Consulate in Durban
… States in Johannesburg on 13 September 1988 after escaping from the Johannesburg Prison. … Political History: a chronology of key political events from…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… socialist allies did very little to support and protect it from South African military and economic aggression. The … DISA," What of the Nkomati Accord? "…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. …
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… distribute and use it more efficiently." Four decades from the day Botha made his statement, a worse drought struck … Anon, (1970), 'Botha on Western Cape…
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… "to investigate all the violations of human rights ... from all quarters". In the meantime, ANC leaders said that …
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… in 1992. On 16 February the IFP called its supporters from all over the province to a gather in the eSikhawini … Commision Special Report, Volume 3: 1991 ,…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… its concerns sufficiently, and announced its withdrawal from talks on constitutional issues. However, this had little …
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
… Donald "Dolan" Acheson is purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered … Ramaphosa, N., Thursday 30 March…
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… 1990 was an important milestone, which signalled a shift from being covert underground organisations to functioning as …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… SACU and the NSC included reducing the number of games from seven to four and cancelling the second test match. It … 228-9.|Wilson, H, St. George's Park…
EventAdvocate Anton Lubowski secretary-general of the SWAPO is assassinated
… Magazine website NB: Some of the information was taken from Namibian.com.na, but that link is broken. …
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… billions on an arms deal while its citizens are dying from HIV/AIDS in tens of thousands. According to Cosatu, to … National Strategic Plan (NSP) 2012-2016…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… more than 30 senior police officers are seeking amnesty from the Commission for a bombing campaign carried out during … TO STOP TRC REPORT SET DOWN FOR…
EventAWB leader, Eugene TerreBlanche, is convicted of attempted murder and assault
… allegedly eating on the job. The second conviction arose from an incident two weeks before the assault on Mr Motshabi, … gets R20 000 bail, appeals against…
EventPolice head admits to Khotso House bombing
… Minister of Law and Order conveyed this order directly from President P. W. Botha. In two-hour talks with the TRC, … TM Mbeki On The Statement of The Bombing…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… breaststroke. South Africa had previously been banned from participating in the Games due its policy of apartheid. …
EventWits attains full university status
… was granted to the University College in 1922, with effect from March 1. Seven months later the inauguration of the … University of the Witwatersrand About…
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… was decided on. With considerable financial support from local philanthropists Jannie and Christiaan Marais, the … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.| Die Burger,"…
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… usual means of transporting provisions and articles to and from the city itself became inadequate. This was primarily …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… Republic and the Orange Free State Republic) and Britain from 1899-1902, the British forces, according to the …
EventOrigin of Johannesburg’s name is explained
… on the former place. Other evidence, notably a letter from the deputy secretary of foreign affairs to the Swiss …
Event200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
… by Act of Parliament on 1 August 1834, becoming law from this date. Emancipation was followed by four years of … Human & Rousseau.|Eh Din, Black History…
EventThe State President F.W. de Klerk issues a proclamation adopting the new national flag and National Anthem of SA
… of South Africa. Die Stem was sung on official occasions from 1928, and Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika was first sung publicly …
EventJaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan independence leader dies
… the government’s policies and its increasing move away from democracy, resigned to form his own opposition party. … Answers, Oginga Odinga , from Answers , …
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… two inmates, Allan Heyl and Lee McCall. The three escaped from prison and began robbing banks. The media soon coined … African Crime," The stander Gang "…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… 23 May 1951 aged 90, the same year, Nelson Mandela’s son from his first marriage with Evelyn was born. In paying …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… their lives. In May 1952 Kahn and Carneson were expelled from the House of Assembly and Cape Provincial Council, … (Accessed: 14 February 2013)| O’Malley, P…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… and medical staff. At least 25 000 children and women died from epidemics of dysentery, measles, and enteric fever. …
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… References: Boddy-Evans A. ‘This Day In African History’, from About African History, 01 June, [online], available at …