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EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… She wrote of this experience in Die swart kombuis. In 1983 Cussons returned to South Africa. Cussons' poetry works …
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
… opened in South Africa after 1994. Construction started in 1983 and the first of its six units was placed in Commercial … opened in South Africa after 1994…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… Congress holds its 44th annual conference in Bloemfontein. 1983 A railway line 1km from Bloemfontein is maliciously …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS in 1983/84. HIV destroys blood cells called CD4+ T cells, which …
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… of' the Lenin Club condemns (particularly the one on the constitution of the new party), the latter do not think they … the ranks of the organization itself'…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… became a founding mother of the South African democratic constitution and was an original member of the National … 1984 Another Landmark,” Dawn volume 7,…
EventNational Party refuses to serve on Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry
The South African Prime Minister, P.W. Botha lashed out on the Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry concerning the future of Natal. Botha said that the National…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… shaping the pillars of our democracy as enshrined in our Constitution. This year represents the fifty-fifth … prescripts of the Freedom Charter find…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… amnesty process. The Post-amble of South Africa’s Interim Constitution placed emphasis on reconciliation and the … conflicts of the past. To this end,…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… negotiated transition was based. They are contained in our constitution as the founding writ of our democracy. In that … that we in the majority party are…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the workshop for Human Rights Education Durban, 21 September 1994
… some of the economic and cultural rights in our interim Constitution. Our vision of bringing prosperity to all, has … young democracy. Although the…
The death of Mama Luthuli,16 December 1996
… days ago President Mandela signed into law a democratic constitution for South Africa. The ANC sends its deepest …
EventLibya becomes independent
… assisted the Libyan national assembly in drawing up a constitution for the new state. …
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… start of substantive negotiations on South Africa's future constitution, a Convention for a Democratic South Africa …
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… The Constituent Assembly was to draw up a new constitution for the territory as a sovereign state. More …
EventBarney Pityana is elected Chairman of Human Rights Commission
… (HRC), a statutory body provided for under the Interim Constitution, on its inaugural meeting on 2 October 1995 …
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
… matches, suffering 5 KOs. Mathebula retired from boxing in 1983. Peter “Terror” Mathebula died on 18 January 2020, in …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Communications and the Battle of Ideas, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… in society, including the media, within the context of the Constitution of the Republic. These rights need to be weighed … is strategically placed to foster…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… of the specificities of how apartheid was carried out. In 1983, however, Barberton Prison became the target of the … in regard to Barberton. [15] Such was…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… for AZAPO and subsequently served as its president (1983-84), vice-president for political education (1985-86) …
PlaceBurkina Faso
… colony , it gained independence as Upper Volta in 1960. In 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara seized power and adopted radical …
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… and worked at the South African Library in Cape Town from 1983. Schoeman is the author of 18 novels and numerous works …
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS in 1983/84. HIV destroys blood cells called CD4+ T cells, which …
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… to 720 days in total. A movement in South Africa began in 1983 to co-ordinate various groups in the country who …
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was formed in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid …
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… aside laws that were unconstitutional; in this way, the constitution's sovereignty would be protected. The document … changes have taken place. The same…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
… Reconciliation Council to oversee the drafting of a constitution for a Fifth Republic with a French style … free and fair, the Nigerien electorate approved…
Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the plenary session of the Multi-Party negotiations process World Trade Centre, Kempton Park, 17 November 1993
… we are re-uniting our country. The central theme of the Constitution for the Transition is the unity of our country and people. This Constitution recognises…
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… involved could not agree on an interim government and a constitution. The first sitting, CODESA I in March 1992 laid …
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
Wallacedene is an Informal Housing Settlement in the Eastern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The Settlement was established during the 1980s when the…