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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…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… crime rose dramatically in the capital, Abijan. By 1990, a strike of civil servants and students led to the …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… Namibia had gained independence three years earlier in 1990. In March 1994, Walvis Bay was officially handed over to …
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… to Pollsmoor in 1982, then to Victor Verster in 1988-1990. The unfavourable economic situation of South Africa, …
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
The Hector Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The Museum is situated on Kumalo Street in Orlando West, and is named…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… that led to its approval was not an easy one. It began in 1990 with the unbanning of political parties and the release …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
… first in the 1970s when he was exiled from Lesotho and in 1990 when he was stripped of constitutional powers and …
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… Cape Town City Hall was totally eclipsed on 11 February 1990, when a newly-released Nelson Mandela stood on the …
PlaceChad
… coup: to Hissène Habré in 1982, and then to Idriss Déby in 1990 [cv] . Another explanation for Chad's turbulent history … tactics would take a huge toll on…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… the two organisations. These restrictions were lifted in 1990 and allowed the party to continue with its political … of the economy at its annual conference…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… letters and visits to prison and when he was released in 1990, Winnie was there holding his hand, but in private she … prison. When they met in Mozambique's…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… emotional security within the pre-colonial family' (Walker 1990:19). For African women in the reserves, where they soon … ANC or sympathetic to it. With the…
EventJustice Ludorf convicts thirty men accused of conspiring to overthrow the SWA administration
… of Nations at the end of the First World War in 1919. In 1990 Namibia became the last country in Africa to gain … Available at www.nelsonmandela.org.za …
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… operation was begun in 1988 and continued until February 1990. The Soviets also embarked on a drive to forge relations … and Gorbachev was elected as the…
EventCassper Nyovest, the South African Hip Hop artist is born
… was born in Mafikeng, North West Province on 16 December 1990.[1] Cassper Nyovest is one of the most prominent figures …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… to become Zimbabwe in 1980), South West Africa (Namibia by 1990), Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Transkei, Bophuthatswana …
PlaceQuaqua
… increased to 300 000 in 1980 and more than a million in 1990. The population of the homeland increased as more people …
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… respective organizations. Mothopeng died on 23 October 1990 and Gwala died of a heart failure on 21 June 1995. …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… UN Trusteeship. Namibia finally gained independence in 1990.In 2004, Germany issued an official apology for the1904 …
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… the country's leading party following independence in 1990. SWAPO, led by one of its co-founders Sam Nujoma, began …
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… acted according to the will of God. However, due to the 1990 moratorium on capital punishment, Strydom escaped the …
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… 1970, 1986 and 1995; the SAUK Prize for African TV dramas 1990; the Stals Prize for Cultural History 1997; and the …
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… government from 1988 - 89, but restrictions were lifted in 1990 as part of the move towards multi-racial government. …
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… was withdrawn and she was not allowed travel to until 1990. In 1988 she was charged and convicted for obstructing a …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… When the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was unanimously elected as the treasurer for the …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
Born in 1945 in the North West Cape, Boesak developed deep interests in religion and politics from an early age. At the age of 14 he became a sexton Dutch…
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… A number of provisional governments followed, but by 1990, a new constitution had been adopted and the charismatic …