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EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… The Angolan Civil War began in 1975, with the end of Portuguese colonial rule. This civil war was raged between two major factions, the Communist MPLA …
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… King Leopold II of Belgium handed over the Congo to the Belgian state on this date. Previously he held it as a … private project undertaken to extract rubber…
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… The aim of The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was to … be a national umbrella organisation that could coordinate the movements of Black…
EventThe western wing of Munitoria burns down
… The Munitoria building, a municipal building in Pretoria burned down in 1997. The fire spread though the building very quickly and was already out of control…
EventSA is banned from the Olympic Games
… In October 1963, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided in Baden … racial discrimination in sport before 31 December 1963, or the country would…
EventTerror strikes the Olympics Games in Atlanta
… The 1996 Atlanta Olympics marked the 100 year celebration of the Olympic Games. The event, unofficially known as the … Terror strikes the Olympics Games in…
EventMulti-party delegates endorses the Interim constitution
… Delegates at the multiparty Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiation endorsed the Interim Constitution according to which SA would have…
ArchiveOrganisational Report of the National Executive Committee
… Organisational Report of the African National Congress National Executive Committee by the Secretary-General, Alfred Nzo to the First Legal National…
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, president of the then banned African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non…
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… Four former cabinet ministers from the apartheid era appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The four were former Minister of Law and…
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… This day recalls the date of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA,GA), of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the ……
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… Krugersdorp was the hometown of engineer George Pratley who founded the Pratley research group (PTY) and went on to invent Pratley Putty in the early 1960's…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… Paul David in 1977, soon after a few of us established the Tongaat Youth Club. We were struck by his youthful … Presidents. Paul was detained in 1980 after…
EventSA signs Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA
… Shortly after the signing of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 1991, the South African government entered into a Comprehensive … fas,' Treaty on the non…
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… of passive resistance and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal (now known as the Gauteng Province). After being with numerous people, he …
EventDr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe
… and theologian, Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana was selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He was officially inaugurated on…
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) refused amnesty to Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-Lewis, the assassins of Chris Hani,…
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… On 1 February 1963, a statement announcing the collapse of the Federation of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) and Nyasaland (now Malawi ) was made. In 1959, before…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… The African National Congress (ANC) threatened in an open … W. de Klerk to suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets its demands for an…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena Southern Sotho sub-tribes…
PlaceAmikoob, a Plain in the Willomore Area; (Vogelstruisleegte)
… Vogelstruisleegte, a plain some 21 km North of Willowmore. The people who roam the Karoo, are the descendants of the San (Bushman) and Khoi who are Ancient ……
ArchiveRemarks by the Secretary-General at informal consultations in the Security Concil today ,(Namibia), Monday, 3 April 1989
… A report read to the United Nations Security Council by the Secretary-General regarding the insurgence of SWAPO troops from Angola into Namibia and … Remarks…
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… Lekota and Moses (Moss) Chikane, collectively known as the "Big Three", were arrested in April 1989 and charged with treason. At the time of their arrest the…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… 1989, ex-mutineers in exile considered resigning from the African National Congress (ANC). This came after the suppression of political and cultural renewal…
EventThe first flight in Kimberley takes off
… on his aeroplane in Kimberley, John Weston embarked on the construction of his own aeroplane in Brandfort, in the Orange Free State (now known as Free State)…
EventThe Second Battle of El Alamein starts
… late in June and in July 1942, Lt.-Gen. B.L. Montgomery, the new commander of the Eighth Army in World War 2, initiated a second attack at El Alamein, a town…
ArchiveStatement of support for the National Union of Mineworkers on the Day of Mourning for Kinross Dead
… Statement of support for the National Union of Mineworkers on the Day of Mourning for Kinros Dead. United Democratic Front expresses its deeply felt sympathy…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… The senior political writer of the Sunday Times, Ranjeni Munusamy, was suspended by the newspaper after her admission that she passed a story on … The Sunday…
EventThe UN lifts mandatory sanctions against SA
… General Assembly of the United Nations requested States to terminate prohibition … relations with South Africa immediately, and to terminate the oil embargo…
ArchiveStatement of the African National Congress of South Africa to the Ad Hoc Committee on Human Rights
… Statement of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Committee on Human Rights of the United Nations on how the imperialist powers opposed … Statement of the African National…