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Key players in the various passive resistance campaigns
This feature looks at the various important 'passive resistance' or 'non-violent' campaigns in 20th Century South Africa; therefore the lists of key players…
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… culminated in Dr Ali Bacher's statement on February 13, 1990. In the statement Bacher acknowledged that it was time … changes' announced by President De…
Mandela video clips
… – 1961 Treason trial speech – 1961 Release from prison – 1990 First speech following release – 1990 Presidential inauguration – 1994 Madiba lifts the Rugby …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… Steve Tshwete . The committee decided to launch the UDF on 20 August 1983, just as the government were scheduled to … to the whole country and renewed on an…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… other ANC campaigns continued. On 9 August 1956 about 20 000 women marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… Vienna accusing Serbian complicity in the assassination. 20 July, Austria-Hungary sends troops to the Serbian … of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) land…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… YCLSA Secretary. Source: cuafrica.blogspot.com [Accessed: 09 February 2012] In 1941, a group of students in …
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
… 30 March 1990 Negotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi 30 March 1990 Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… of his 60th birthday in 1978 until his release in February 1990. The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute Concert, held …
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
The passive resistance movement in South Africa is seen as, largely, led by M K Gandhi and the Indian Congresses campaigns. However, this form of passive…
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
… an instantaneous and electrifying reaction. (See Fig. 20). Deaths in political violence for that month shot up to … in one month far outstrips any other…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… killed the Leader of the group who was buried that day. 1990 Started working as a reelance photojournalist until …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… together with other political organisations in February 1990. The PAC initially refused to participate in 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…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… in July. As a result, 2000 workers strike in Durban and 20 are dismissed. Concerned that Cape Town workers would face …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… of the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle. [20] This content was originally produced for the SAHO … "Afrikaner-Broederbond." Encyclopedia…
EventFirst ANC Conference in SA in three decades
… in South Africa after thirty-one years from 14-16 December 1990. It was considered by the ANC as ranking in importance … in 1983; and the release of Nelson…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… - Government). In its 2001 Mid-term Report to the Nation 20 , the government summarised the progress as follows: … built or are under construction. Education…
Article2016 in Review
… New Patriotic Party leader Nana Akufo-Addo. - 10th - 20 years since President Nelson Mandela promulgated the …
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… men ‘of exceptionally good character, between the age of 20 and 30, minimum height 5ft. 3in., chest measurement 33 ½ … without dependants would be accepted…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… By 1910, he had managed to build an organisation of 20 000 members. Discrimination policies assumed new urgency … author and sole practitioner of Satyagraha…
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… to power in 1948. It was F.W. de Klerk who, on 2 February, 1990 announced the release of Nelson Mandela as well as the … Mandela was released from prison on…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… by the UN after it broke a ceasefire agreement. On 20 November 1994 the Lusaka Accord was signed by both parties … speculated to have supplied between US$15…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… by the Apartheid government in the Matola attack. [20] SACTU leader William Khanyile, Obadi, a brilliant young … Communist Party in Mozambique until its…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… was enough to trigger Dambisa’s departure from Zambia in 1990. Just as her father had done, Moyo came to the United … achievement, she was recognized as one…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… 13 December, First meeting between Mandela and De Klerk 1990 Namibia gains independence January, Harms Commission appointed to look into state-sponsored…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… After the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on 20 August 1983, CRADORA affiliated to this broad-based …