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EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… was the Boipotong massacre that took place on 17 June 1992. Approximately 300 armed residents of the …
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… found their way into Tanzania and landed at SAMFCO. In 1992, the piece of land was handed back to the government of …
EventJoe Slovo dies
… create a climate for negotiations. And it was Slovo who in 1992 first broached the idea of a national government of …
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… offences at one time or another during his rule. By 1992, Banda's grip had begun to weaken. External pressure, …
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… refused to allow this to dampen its spirits. In January 1992 De Klerk restructured Constitutional Development … the success of CODESA, and planned a campaign…
EventBafana Bafana legend Philemon Raul Masinga dies
… 18 goals during his 58 international appearances between 1992 and 2001. Over his entire professional career, Masinga …
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… a narrator ‘who is limited but not wholly unreliable’ (23) and gives examples of when one can read David’s … of Coetzee’s essays and interviews, Doubling the…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… African Organisations Agree Principle", The Guardian , 23 December 1948 Document 16 - Joint Sitting of the Executive … Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17…
Looking After Freedom - ending 16 June
… internationally. The exhibition, which takes place from 23 May 2017 - 16 June 2017 at the Michaelis Galleries, aims …
EventTunisia: The self-emulation of Tarek el-Tayeb Mohamed Bouazizi sparks the Jasmin Revolution
… the state under then-President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s 23-year presidency, died in Ben Arous 14 days later. …
PlaceConstitution Street House 14, Port Elizabeth
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 December 1983. Donkin Street is a famous tourist street …
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… followed the attempt by Somali forces to occupy Ogaden on 23 July 1977. The Somali Army crossed the international …
EventGeneral De Wet is defeated by British forces
… General PA Cronje on the western front. De Wet died on 23 February 1922 and was buried at the foot of the Women’s …
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… Mandela was one of the 156 leading figures, 104 Africans, 23 Whites, 21 Indians and 8 Coloureds, of the South African …
EventWilliam J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of the South African interior, dies
… and he became quite isolated and disillusioned. On 23 March 1863, he ended his own life in London. Burchell is …
EventThe UN Security Council condemns all violations of its embargo against South Africa
… and other sanctions were still not in place. On 23 July 1970, the United Nations (UN) Security Council …
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
… was diagnosed with cancer and died the following year on 23 April 1995. …
EventGert Maritz (41), Voortrekker leader, dies.
… On 23 September 1838 Gerhardus Marthinus (Gert) Maritz, …
Article2016 in Review
… artist and photographer, who was accused of murdering 23 year old sex worker, Nokuphile Kumalo on 14th April 2013. …
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… On 23 June 1956 General Gamal Abdel Nasser was officially … Boddy-Evans A. (2011), ‘This Day in African History: 23 June,’ from African History [online]…
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
… Michael Paul Sibisi was born in Umkhumbane, Durban on 23 September 1948. He studied art at the Ndaleni Educational …
EventNic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement is assassinated.
… in a computer. The subsequent explosion killed Cruse, aged 23. Cruse had worked for PC Plus, a small computer hardware …
EventBram Fischer born today
… apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 April 1908. This man, from staunch Afrikaans descent (he … (2008), Bram Fischer's 100th Birthday…
EventThe Federal Congress of the National Party supports a set of constitutional reforms
… At a United Democratic Front (UDF) conference held on 23 January, 1983 in Johannesburg Allen Boesak called for the …
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe refuses to end the Katanga secession
… Mobutu Sese Seko refused to end the Katanga secession. On 23 December 1961 he led the Congo province of Katanga into … , [online], available at www.sahistory…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… writing a new Constitution for South Africa. On 15 May 1992 CODESA 2 met at the World Trade Centre. After three days …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… which persisted for a long time. For example, in August 1992, Human Rights Watch found that Pollsmoor was 97 per cent …
Conflict among civic organisations
… a national body of civic organisations was established in 1992 as the South African National Civic Organisation …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… out that their property contains payable gold deposits. 23 December, The Mining Commissioner is instructed to issue … J.W Sauer. 15 March, The first Hospital…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troop ship carrying the Fifth Battalion of the South African Native Labour Contingent, the recruitment process for troops…