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EventKaunda announces nationalisation of Copper mines
… hand over power to a democratically elected government in 1990, which continued with IMF economic policies with the …
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… These clashes resulted in many civilian deaths. In 1990 the USC mounted its military operations in the central …
EventA South African spy is released from jail
… number was more than 3 000. Sources: Books: Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records of World Events: Longman: London, p. …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… by President F. W. de Klerk in parliament on 10 February 1990, that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison, … de Klerk's speech at the opening of…
EventMazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
… 2010] The State Outside South Africa between 1960 and 1990,[ online ], Available, at: stanford.edu [Accessed 15 …
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… from Lesotho to Zambia after the coup. By February 1990, a power struggle had developed between Lekhanya and …
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the…
EventGerman South West Africa is put under South African administration
… abide by the decision. The country gained independence in 1990 as Namibia. …
EventGermany declares South West Africa a German protectorate
… Africa remained under South African control until 1990. …
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
… On 7 June 1990, former South African President, F W de Klerk, announced … Lyman,R.,(1990),S.A lifts emergency rule new one imposed in Natal,8 …
EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
The South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster declared that if the positive signs of cooperation with the rest of Africa are interpreted accurately, South…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
Art in the state of siegeThe Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events,…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… Business and Economy Group. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, the NIC and the TIC, had various meetings with the ANC …
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… established in South Africa and Namibia from 1948 until 1990. In 1959. A maximum-security prison started to operate … this segregationist policy gradually…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… [xxxiv] He then ultimately returned to South Africa in 1990 where he aided in the reconstruction of the ANC … the country from 1979 when he first went into…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… prisoners. Nelson Mandela was released on 11 February 1990. The Law Today Between 1990 and 1993 the government was involved in negotiations …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… support for the reform process he started in February 1990. Surprisingly, the majority of Afrikaans-speaking Whites …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… to administer South West Africa as a province up until 1990, when South West Africa finally gained its independence …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… agreed to give up control of Namibia. And on 21 March 1990, Namibia was granted its independence. …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… phones became commercially popular in South Africa in the 1990's, and today it is estimated that 60% of South African …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June 1990 he retired from politics at the age of 80. …
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Chapter 1: Introduction
… Unions (COSATU) during the Easter of 1985, the release in 1990 of Nelson Mandela (ANC leader who was imprisoned for 27 … and the IFP failed, until the…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… were executed per year than anywhere else in the world. In 1990, during the interregnum, de Klerk ordered a stay on all …
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… first organisations to meet the ANC after its unbanning in 1990 and welcomed the opportunity to reconnect with the Tamil …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… and then Victor Verster prison before he was released in 1990. Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994. …
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… a border dispute broke out with Burkino Faso. By the mid-1990's ethnic conflict broke out between the Tuareg people …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… in which 19 people were killed. MK was disbanded in 1990 and was integrated into the South African National …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… the withdrawal of Cuban forces from Angola. On March 21, 1990 Namibia officially achieved independence. … 75 Years of Pretoria's Rule." New York Times. 21…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
The three heads of state met for 13 days of secret meetings at Camp Devid, the Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, about 100 kilometers…