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EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… the Australian Human Rights Award. After his release in 1990, Mandela received the Nobel Peace Prize, and was elected …
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… humour. He did not live to see Namibian independence in 1990. The John Muafangejo Art Centre was established in …
PlaceThe South African Police Service Museum
… and old magistrate’s court was based. It opened on 21 June 1990 but closed a few years later due to damage to the …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… the ANC's Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament in the …
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… division winner in the annual Surfer Poll awards in 1990, 1991 and 1993.[viii] In 2009, Wendy Botha was inducted …
EventMinnie Dlamini, the South African television personality is born
… Dlamini was born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 7 July 1990.[1] Minnie attended Northlands Girls’ High School and …
EventSt James Church massacre
… Report, vol. 2. 'The Liberation Movements from 1960 to 1990'. http://www.doj.gov.za …
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… therefore set up the Harms Commission in Britain in 1990 to investigate these claims. In his testimony, Coetzee …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… paved the way for formal Namibian independence in 1990. … coast, has enjoyed stability since gaining independence in 1990 after a long struggle against rule…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… and other organisations were later unbanned on 2 February 1990, and a non-racial constitution was eventually agreed …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… and Economy Group. After the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, TIC leaders and activists became active in the …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… celebrated side, the Indomitable Lions had electrified the 1990 World Cup in Italy, beating holders Argentina and …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… In 1990, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… the disbandment of the UDF. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, the NIC and the TIC, had various meetings with the ANC …
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… began and who initiated them. Did it start with the 1990 speech in Parliament by F. W. de Klerk? With the first … paragraphs of the Sunday Times editorial of…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… destabilisation alongside talks during the year from July 1990 to June 1991. It took the ANC up until April 1991 to … A special report on two years of…
Chapter 5: The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… funding of IFP rallies in November 1988 and January 1990, which were followed by a wave of violence. 137 Millions … The political violence that erupted in…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… success, Cole died destitute and lonely in New York in 1990 and until recently his story was largely unknown. Yet in … He died of pancreatic cancer at the…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… The Iziko South African (SA) Maritime Centre opened in 1990. It is based at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A …
PlaceWelkom
… of flats, about 75 minutes after the event. On 20 March 1990, Welkom was struck by a multi-vortex tornado which went … front and had a width of up to 1.7 km…
PlaceSoccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg
… the First Speech from Former President Nelson Mandela in 1990 , a few days after being released from prison where he …
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… the use of the death penalty was suspended in February 1990, South Africa had one of the highest rates of judicial …
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… Foreign Affairs, Joaquim Chissano, on 3 November 1986. By 1990, direct talks were held between FRELIMO and RENAMO and …
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… its mandate and continued to administrate SWA. On 21 March 1990, after more than twenty years of warfare, Namibia …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… ended with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and the country's first fully democratic elections in …
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… particularly the Benrose massacre on 13 September 1990. He also named a Zimbabwean who had allegedly been …
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… Party government was forced to negotiate with the ANC. In 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison and in February …