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EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… Former SA prime minister and later State President from 1978 to … at the age of 90 at his house Die Anker near Wilderness in the Western Cape. Botha was…
ArchiveFacts
… and reports on student activities, issued by the Joint SA Universities Right-Wing students appended to the NUSAS …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… Natal and Cape, the draft South Africa Act was signed in Bloemfontein after fierce debate. The different laws concerning non-White political rights in the…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… Arthur Chaskalson was appointed by President Nelson Mandela in June 1994 to be the first President of South Africa's new … Congress on constitutional issues …
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… Buthelezi used the name Inkhata which was rooted in a previous Zulu cultural movement called Inkatha … process, and only decided to participate in the 1994…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… speech 1985 November, Kobie Coetsee meets Nelson Mandela in a Cape Town hospital 1987 July, Dakar meeting between ANC … December, Interim Constitution…
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… It is obvious that when the ANC became a ruling party in 1994 we could not foresee and prepare for all the … on its left-leaning alliance partners, Cosatu…
EventGen. Jannie Geldenhuys announces that CCB will be disbanded
… In February 1990, President F.W. de Klerk appointed Mr … into alleged hit-squads. On 11 February 1990, the SA Defence Force (SADF) admitted to the existence…
ArchiveFree to learn
… Multicoloured poster. Global Campaign for Education (SA) poster. Global Action Week - 22-28 April 2002. List of …
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bothaville or Doornkraal is fought with Gen. De Wet surrendering
… De Wet surrendering, after heavy losses on both sides. SA National Museum of Military History. (1999). Anglo-Boer …
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of … the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of … the end of the Second World War was a crucial factor in achieving…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… 1940 9 October, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang is born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal. 1959 Tshabalala-Msimang … service as co-ordinator of the ANC’s Health Plan for…
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… the Commonwealth of Nations with effect from January 1994. The move came after prolonged promising talks on … South Africa withdrew its membership from the…
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
… on the banks of the Mbashe River, not far from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The Village is mainly … Museum. Nelson Mandela Day Celebrations…
ArchiveMusic for two pianos and four hands
Pink and black poster. Notice of a concert at Baxter Concert Hall, on Saturday 20th October 1984. Concert by S.A. College of Music. List of music played by…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… When the African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912, it did not accept women as members. In 1918, the government threatened to reintroduce pass laws …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the … interpretation here is necessary: seeing is meaning)”. [xxvi] This, he…
PlaceChad
… Chad is the fifth largest country in Africa [i] . Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for … from Kanembu, and moved west to found the state of Borno …
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… Africa to sanity, nor do we feel we can be too emphatic in pointing out what a great deal of the damage which the … to the United Nations and to the high…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri … and held him on death row for nearly 25…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… Mandela is a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the … in mid-1990 to our first democratic…
EventSibongile Khumalo was born on this day
… On this day Sibongile Khumalo was born in Orlando, Soweto. She is one of the most recognized jazz … including Nelson Mandela’s 75th birthday as well as the…
Toast remarks by the President Jacob Zuma to the official state banquet held in his honour on the occasion of the state visit to Uganda, 25 March 2010, State House Entebbe, Uganda
… a homecoming. We are indeed truly happy to be back so soon in this country, having visited this country in 2008 on party to party basis, the ANC visiting the…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… take place on 29 and 30 November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province. On … The interim Constitution came into…
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… The UN General Assembly condemned the armed incursions by SA into neighbouring states, which resulted in the execution of patriots and the capturing of…
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… have to be tackled long before the end of this century in order to store the water, distribute and use it more … drought struck the Central Karoo town of…
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
… number of recorded infections had increased by 60 percent. In 2012, an estimated 5, 3 Million South Africans are living … HIV. Sub Saharan Africa has the…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… collections of rugby memorabilia and is one of its kind in the world, a must-see for rugby fans, the Springbok … zone, challenging kids and adults to test…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… against the South African Apartheid Regime , which in the following years inspires the establishment of Namibian … of Andimba Toivo ya Toivo a small group of…