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Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… kidnapped, bombed, banished etc. Since 2 February 1990, your government echoes what we have said and practised … of the barrel of your gun. You proved that…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… the ANC’s Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament in the …
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… project was initiated under the auspices of the AEB. In 1990, President F. W. de Klerk terminated the program and in … , 04 March, [online], available at www…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… France continued its nuclear tests for years. In the 1990’s France was still conducting nuclear tests in the …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… P.W. Botha on 14 August. His announcement on 02 February, 1990 to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National …
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… L’Amour la fantasia (Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade). In 1990, she became a member of the jury for the Neustadt … tradition and modernization” (Assia Djebar…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in April 1989, and … strucÂtures but as delegates of…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… also took his steps to freedom through these gates in 1990. The prison has a huge bronze statue of Mandela with his …
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… in 1999. Mandela, who was released from prison in February 1990, became the first democratic president of the Republic …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria, took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… Dr. A.H. Zulu and Dr. Frank .T. Mdlalose. On 14 July 1990, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) came into being at a …
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… South Africa on the road to full democracy. In February,1990, he freed Nelson Mandela and unbanned the African …
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the adoption of an Interim Constitution during and after 1990, as then DP leader Zach de Beer was elected the first …
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… , addressed the memorial service References: Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records of World Events, Longman: London, p. …
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… The number of South African world champions peaked in the 1990's. The country had six world champions in 1995, five the …
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
The killing of eleven people at Donnybrook, Kwazulu-Natal on the 21 March 1996 can be considered as part of the ongoing rivalry between supporters of the…
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… on 19 February 1964 in Springs, on the East Rand. In the 1990’s Kebble got into mining and was soon director of three …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela. On 2 February 1990, de Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC, the South African …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… suppression of political and cultural renewal. Early in 1990, a group of ex-uMkhonto weSizwe(MK) cadres mysteriously … B., Maxongo, A., Tshona, Z., Massango,…
PlaceVictor Verster Prison
… was through these gates, that Mandela walked to freedom in 1990 . Mandela was transferred to this prison, from the … in preparation for his release on the…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… 1860 -1911. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1990 Bhana, S-, Indentured Indian immigrants to Natal, 1860 - … and Outsiders. The Indian Working…
PlaceGriqualand West
… It was retained as the Magistrate’s Court until May 1990, when the staff moved into their new premises on Knight … itself, a National Monument (declared so…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… as the 1976 Uprising, 1985-1986 Mass Mobilisation, 1989-1990 Defiance Campaign, inter alia. …
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
The Minister of Sport, Piet Koornhof, announced a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declared that the government is working towards eliminating…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
Bheki Mlangeni was a lawyer working for the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s. He and former police Captain Dirk Coetzee had worked together to…
EventMandela visits Zambia
… 1962. Subsequent to his release from prison on 11 February 1990, after 27 years in jail, he had been following a …
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… On 20 January 1990 General Lothar Neethling sued the Vrye Weekblad and the …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… incident of political violence took place in February 1990 after South African President F.W. de Klerk made a … O’Malley, P. ‘1990’ , from Nelson Mandela…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… African countries before she returned to South Africa in 1990. She has won several awards for her music, including a …
EventJudith Mason, SA artist, is born in Pretoria.
… only to return at the dawn of democracy in the early 1990’s. Mason’s work is represented in all major South …