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ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
The involvement of the South African national rugby team, the Springboks, in international rugby is rife with controversy. In the 1960s, as international…
ArticleThe Homelands
The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was moved to prevent them from…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
Conference: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference Date: 23-25 November 2016 Venue: University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) …
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… Cape Town Gazette (CG) 26 April 1823, Cape Archives, CCP 08/1/18 ↵ [lxii] Ibid ↵ [lxiii] Christopher Saunders, …
EventFifteen English cricket players are prohibited to play for three years in England because of their rebel tour of South Africa
… professional cricket. The last rebel tour took place in 1990. The tour was cancelled midway following violent …
Sechaba
… Congress, banned in South Africa during the period 1961 to 1990, forged its struggle for freedom, justice and liberation …
EventThirty people die in a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Algeria
… the Northern African country of Algeria on 29 October 1990. It claimed the lives of 30 people. This was a rather … List of important earthquakes in Algeria…
EventOscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born
… Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Secretary-General On 1 June 1990 Dhlomo resigned as Inkatha Secretary-General, the …
EventDe Klerk announces referendum date
… process, which was set in motion by him back on 2 February 1990. The referendum date was scheduled for 17 March. Voters …
PlaceTunisia
… a member of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in 1990 and joined the World Trade Organization upon its …
EventMandela and De Klerk hold emergency talks
… On 16 August 1990, President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held … Nelson Mandela Center of Memory. (1990), " 16 August 1990 ", from Nelson Mandela Center…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… Sources: South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90, Johannesburg: South …
EventSouth Africa abolishes financial Rand
… in the 1960’s and only widely used in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Created by the sale of nonresidents’ assets in the …
ArchiveGuaranteeing fundamental freedoms in a new South Africa
… by Chief Justice M M Corbett in Johannesburg on 7 May 1990, in celebrating the Diamond Jubilee year. In his …
EventGary Bernard, photographer of The Star, commits suicide in Johannesburg
… the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the townships between 1990 and 1994. Bernard was winner of Fiji Film’s Photographer …
Mayibuye
… banned Congress to the masses. Legal publication began in 1990 after the unbanning of the African National Congress No …
EventThe Arusha Accord is signed to end civil war in Rwanda
… in July 1992. The Rwandan Civil War began in October 1990 when the RPF invaded Rwanda from Uganda in an attempt to …
EventThe Ciskei homeland is established
… under the presidency of Lennox Sebe. In March 1990, Sebe was toppled by the military and replaced by …
EventThe seven day war in Kwazulu-Natal starts
… death of 200 residents of Vulindlela and Edendale in March 1990. Three thousand homes were looted and burnt and some 30 …
EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
… On 4 March 1990 Brigadier Oupa Gqozo of the Ciskei Defence Force (CDF), …
EventArchbishop William Barnett issues a statement condemning Apartheid
… 'until they die'. Between 27 October, 1971 and 30 January, 1990, seven people died while being held indefinitely under … Available at www.nelsonmandela.org…
Devout domesticity?
… 1985-1989 8. Indian Resistance Politics in Transition, 1990-1996 Conclusion Bibliography …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Her career skyrocketed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Things seemed to all go downhill in the mid 1990’s when rumours of drug abuse began to surface…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… against apartheid through underground organisations. In 1990 the government unbanned the league. Since then, the … sought to accomplish. After the unbanning…
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
… said on a televised telephone call-in program on 25 August 1990, that "we dare not allow radicals to send this country … for the police to abuse their rights…
PlaceGannahoek Farm
… 1894, the McFie family took possession of the farm until 1990. Evictions View Larger Map The labour tenants who … on another commercial farm owned by the…
EventSouth Africans pay tribute to Nelson Mandela at the Grand Parade in Cape Town
… public speech follow his release from imprisonment in 1990. At this commemorative occasion South Africans sang and …
EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… Mandela was still held at the Victor Verster Prison (1988-1990) after he was transferred from Robben Island (1982-1988) …
EventAndrew Charles Hudson, South African cricketer is born
Andrew Charles Hudson was born on 17 March 1965 in Eshowe, Natal (KwaZulu Natal). He distinguished himself as a cricketer by playing in 35 tests and 89 One Day…
EventFurther chaos in Liberian civil war
… (INPFL) led by Prince Yormie Johnson on 9 September 1990. The end of the Doe regime only continued the ethnic …