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Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress
… back on a meeting held in Lusaka, Zambia, in February 1990 regarding F W de Klerk's speech of 2nd February 1990. Welcomes the suspension of the death penalty…
EventNelson and Winnie Mandela travel to Canada.
… On 17 June 1990, Nelson Mandela visited Ottawa, Canada escorted by his … Africa, Europe and North America that began on the 6 June 1990. As he stepped onto…
EventNelson Mandela was issued with his first passport after being released from prison
… with his first South African passport on 19 February 1990, 8 days after he was released from prison. It was this … the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… Coloured and Indian people fared a little better. Walker (1991:71) quotes 1940 statistics showing that 86, 8% of … these women were becoming more politicised…
PlaceMacassar Beach Pavillion
… confirms. The Macassar Beach Pavilion was built around 1991, and along with the dunes was named for the Sheikh of …
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
… On 10 November 1991, the South African cricket team, now better known as the …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… several stays of execution, they were finally reprieved in 1991 when negotiations between liberation movements and …
EventEthiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
On 28 May1991, Ethiopians People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) captured the capital of Ethiopia,Addis Ababa. The EPRDF was led by the Meles Zinawi,…
EventDr Kenneth Kaunda, former president of Zambia, is born
… of an independent Zambia. He remained in power until 1991, when he stepped down following pressure from his own …
PlaceZorgvliet, Sir George Grey Street, Oranjezicht
… architectural heritage lived and worked here From 1969 to 1991 …
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… the banning orders against me were lifted in February 1990, the day after Mandela’s release. By then it seemed to …
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… for changes that are to come in South Africa. [viii] 1991 With the unbanning of the ANC Loots returns to South …
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… in 1911; 1921; 1936; 1951; 1960; 1970; 1980; 1985, 1991, 1996 and 2001. However, information collected in the …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Mohapi - 5 August 1976 Mthuli kaShezi Muntu Myeza - 4 July 1991 Onkgopotse Ramothibi Abraham Tiro - 1 February 1974 …
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… parties. The Patriotic Front Between 25 and 27 October 1991 more than 400 delegates representing some ninety-two … that negotiations be scheduled for 29 and…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… Bush, to establish relations between the two countries. 1990 When the ANC was unbanned in 1990, Albertina worked on a committee that re-established the ……
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… "I never dreamed I would be accorded such status." 1990 In the early 1990s, Kathrada is one of an ANC delegation … Vlok, and senior officials of the Prisons…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… leading him to lose his speech due to a stroke. 1990s 1990 2 February Delivers a statement with other ANC leaders … a speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… simply commented that “after his release from prison in 1990, (Comrade) Madiba became a great and close friend of the … debatable. Nelson Mandela with Fidel…
EventManuel Pinto da Costa becomes the president
… legal political party. Dr Manuel held the position until 1991, when his party suffered defeat in the first democratic …
EventDictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending his 22 year rule
… ousted by his people and he fled Somalia on 28 January 1991. He ruled Somalia for 22 years. …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… African Economic Community signed in Abuja, Nigeria, in 1991. According to the programme, new members of the …
EventMiss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand
… Universe in Bangkok, Thailand in 1992. Mclean had won the 1991 Miss Namibia pageant as well as making it to the top 5 …
EventRobben Island is turned into a maximum security prison
… more than 3,000 political prisoners between 1961 and 1991, the most famous being Nelson Mandela. Since 1997, the …
EventDr Ali Bacher, director of the SACU, announces the shortening of the ‘rebel cricket tour ‘as a gesture of support for the country’s dramatic political changes
… Nations. They took place between the period of 1982 and 1990, a time when South Africa was banned from International Cricket. In 1990, when South Africa went…
EventHundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island
… The release of Nelson Mandela on 11 February 1990 was a catalyst that sped up the change in the political dispensation in South Africa. On 4 March 1990 343…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… [Rwanda] Cape Town 1989 Dr Gamal Badawi [Canada] Roshnee 1990 Dr Ahmed El-Kadi [USA] Iman El-Kadi [USA] Aisha Lemu [Nigeria] Durban 1991 Farooq Salman…
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… The acceptance of the Namibian constitution on 9 February 1990 established the Republic of Namibia. The independence … Namibia was a protectorate of South…
EventMogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN
… and OAU, to curb a prolonged civil war that broke out in 1991. The civil war erupted after the downfall of President …