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State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… Nelson Mandela Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 24 May 1994 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, President of the … and an African. She was both an artist and…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… despite the absence of the Freedom Alliance (FA), which in turn issued a statement rejecting the proposed … for the election date would be moved to the 4 th…
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… Between April and mid July 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus … UN Force Commander Lieutenant General Dallaire argued that in…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… Mandela is awarded the Dr Bruno Kreisky Prize for merit in the field of human rights, Vienna, Austria. 1982 Elected … President F W de Klerk the Nobel Peace…
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
… Theatre is an independent physical theatre company founded in 1987 in order to produce Jennie Reznek’s first one-man … established themselves in Observatory …
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
… Anti-Apartheid Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing … were weeded out. So far AGM papers dating…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… 1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the … The documents are referred to a graphologist of…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… After South Africa's first national democratic elections in April 1994, Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first … President at the Union…
Constitiounal Court Judgement in the matter of Economic Freedom Fighters vs. Speaker of the National Assembly and Others; Democratic Alliance vs. Speaker of the National Assembly and Others, Heard on 9 February 2016 and Decided on 31 March 2016
… Constitiounal Court Judgement in the matter of Economic Freedom Fighters vs. Speaker of the …
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… presence, Mozambique became an independent state in 1975. A civil war broke out between two factions FRELIMO, … Congress(ANC) was granted access to military…
EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… The first International Women's Day was launched in several European countries in March 1911. It was celebrated on 19 March and over a … Women's Day is not…
PlaceYsterplaat, Cape Town
… started using Ysterplaat as a landing field. However in the Municipal Census of 1810, it is listed that on the … the grass airfield. An Airport Managers…
PlaceeThekwini Municipality
… EThekwini Municipality is a Category A Municipality found in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal . It is one of four coastal metropolitan…
PlaceMelmoth, Gateway to Zululand
… and 90 km from the Coastal Town of Mtunzini. Referred to, in the SA edition of Trivial Pursuit, as having the cleanest air in the country, Melmoth was a ‘…
EventMarianne Kriel was born on this day
… Marianne Kriel was born in Bellville on 30 August 1971.[i] She attended Bellville … Kriel earned herself a gold medal at the All Africa Games in the 100…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… pioneer of the Black Consciousness(BC) philosophy was born in King William's Town, Eastern Cape. Biko’s unshaken stance … apartheid inspired the hope of…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… It is ironic that Slovo, vilified by fellow Whites and in the white press as a Stalinist and revolutionary, should be in the end have been the great voice of…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… introduced to the Cape. 1820 A number of Indians arrive in Cape Town from Bencoolen. A certain Mr Hare provides … receives representative self-government…
EventRoman Catholic Bishop Augustin Misago, cleared of genocide charges
… of charges against him regarding his alleged participation in the Rwandan genocide by a Court of Law in Rwanda. Bishop Misago was arrested on 14 April 1999…
EventPallo Jordan opens the Mbuzini Samora Machel Public Library
… Pallo Jordan, opened a community library at Mbuzini in the Mpumalanga Province, known as the Mbuzini Samora … Machel and his compatriots were returning from…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… National Congress (ANC) sends a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had stripped black…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… mines and 13 000 were retained to be used for training in demining. Anti personnel mines are mine explosives … to injure personnel or people rather than…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… 1970 Early in 1970, the South African Communist Party (SACP) convenes … including MK cadres who experienced armed confrontation in Zimbabwe in the 1967 …
ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… ANC`s highest honour. Ray Alexander Simons was involved in the liberation struggle from an early age, and remained … all forms of oppression. The ANC joins…
PlacePiketberg
… farming Town of Piketberg also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past. Is located at the foot of the Piketberg Mountain … with the seasons - from reddish…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… mother’s dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a founding … women’s organisations and a member of…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born in the Eastern Cape in about 1873. It is believed that he … in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa for…
PlaceGoshen
… It was established by the Transvaal Boers in 1884, as a Republic. Their flag was horizontal … worried the British Colonial Office. This explains why in 1885,…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… large, it was segmented and spread over a large Area in what is now the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The capital of … into the Natal province after the end of…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… Distinguished Premiers of our Provinces Mayors and leaders in our system of local government Our honoured traditional … democratically elected parliament on…