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EventTranskei gains complete independence
… The oldest of the independent homelands, Transkei, gained complete … independence as an autonomous republic under the policy of separate development. At its…
EventDelmas Treason Trial starts
… Trial, up to that time the longest trial in the history of SA, started in Delmas, east of Pretoria. Twenty-two Transvaal United Democratic Front (UDF)…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education We, the people of South Africa, Recognise the … Africa able to take its rightful place as…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Egypt attempted to colonize the region of Southern Sudan by establishing the Province of Equatoria … Sudan declared its independence and became Africa's 54th…
ArchiveApartheid under siege, 1984-1988: actions and reactions
… for the Degree Philosophiae Doctor in the Faculty of Humanitie (Department of History) at the University of the Free State. Summary: The study analyses the…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… Zindziswa (Zindzi) Nobutho Mandela, second daughter of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and … second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was…
EventPresident FW de Klerk tells Parliament that South Africa had constructed six nuclear fission devices
… African President F.W. de Klerk announced the existence of a South African nuclear programme as well as the fact that … prop up the Apartheid regime. After…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
… Al Gore, US Vice President, Mr Jim Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, Ministers here Present, Excellencies … of human rights. It is our view that a…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men” that included the … work. Others fled because they were…
Say It out Loud - The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913
… 1913 Presidential address by Dr. A Abdurahman, President of the African Political Organization (APO), Kimberley , 29 … convictions boldly and fearlessly. I…
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… committee, United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State, Herman Cohen, said that the US strongly opposed any … prisoners and unban all political parties…
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… (ANC). A NNP statement said that individual members of the NNP would be encouraged to join the ANC in their … The NNP would in future contest elections under…
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… government. His denial came two months after a Member of Parliament and leader of the Progressive Federal Party, Dr. Frederik van Zyl … by the apartheid…
EventJoe Kachingwe is appointed Malawi’s first Ambassador to South Africa
… 1971. This diplomatic move by both countries followed a state visit by South African Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster in … in Malawi. Following this visit by…
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial … http://www.andibradley.com…
PlaceBoom van Sameswering, Onze Rust, Bloemfontein
… The so-called Tree of Conspiracy stands on the farm Onze Rust, and once belonged to Marthinus Steyn, the last President of the Free State, who bought the…
PlaceRooigrond
… Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former … In 1948 the government issued the first notice of the…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… trade relations with South Africa. Tanganyika became one of the first countries in Africa to impose sanctions on South Africa. The majority of countries in…
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to death. A prior … in the face. Verwoed was sitting at his…
EventWinnie Mandela sued by the government
… they were suing Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former president, Nelson Mandela, for more than two million rands, the equivalent value of…
EventOmar Badsha, South African photographer, is born
… South African liberation struggle. He was at the forefront of all the major anti-apartheid campaigns in Natal and the … years, during which time he was…
EventMthunzi Njakazi, ANC member, is killed in shooting after returning from exile
… by askari (former ANC member who defected to the Bureau of State Security ) members after his return from exile. The … O'Malley," Chapter 7: Political…
EventF.W. de Klerk delivers his farewell address to Parliament
… Former State President and National Party leader Frederik Willem de … solving the country's problems. De Klerk, a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace…
EventEdenburg is founded
… The church village Edenburg in the Orange Free State was established when the farm Rietfontein was purchased … to build a church. The initial application for…
EventDRC President Laurent Kabila is assassinated
… On 16 January 2001, Laurent Kabila President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was killed by gunshot. According to reports … Joseph was very young…
EventPatricia de Lille testifies at Schabir Shaik’s trial
… At the time, leader of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille, finally took … acquisition process. Her testimony relates to count three of corruption…
EventMalawi’s Kamuzu Banda losses election
… died in a hospital in South Africa in 1997, at the age of 101 and despite the controversy, which surrounded his rule, he was given a state funeral…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950 the African National Congress (Transvaal), the Communist Party of South…
PlacePietermaritzburg, Umgungundlovu District Municipality
… is the Capital and second-largest City, in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa . It was founded in 1838 and named after two leaders of the…
Soweto: urban politics, poverty and race in apartheid society
… A dissertation presented to the Faculty of Princeton University in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Department of Politics. … of…