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EventConnie Mulder resigns as a result of his involvement in plot to sell apartheid propaganda
… The Citizen, which was pro-apartheid government. A commission of inquiry concluded that Vorster knew everything …
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… Mangope rejected the South African Independent Electoral Commission's pleas for free political activity in …
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… He successfully applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty. … CONVICTED MURDERERS WILL NOT BE RETRIED BY TRUTH COMMISSION [online]…
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… in 1986. In a submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the African National Congress (ANC) later …
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… but received amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for their actions. …
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), lawyers for the National Party (NP) demand …
EventDemonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington D.C.
… and Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, were arrested for a sit-in at …
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… In her recollection with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , Desai explained, “I felt my conscience was … In 1996, she testified for the Truth and…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… a series of podcasts from the Australian Human Rights Commission. I'm Graeme Innes, the Disability and Race … course, we are providing the secretarial…
Address at The Youth Day Rally, Witbank, 16th June 2003
… banner of diverse organisations led by the National Youth Commission, Umsobomvu Youth Fund and the South African Youth … as a result of cooperation between…
A tireless campaigner by Jaspreet Kindra, 29 October 2003, South Africa
… employed as an upholsterer. Appalled at the miserably low wages, the brothers led a Natal-wide furniture workers' …
The Democratic Party (DP)
… trade union rights for Black people and fought for better wages and working conditions. In 1974 six more PP members won …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… in 1998. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) failed to conduct an in-depth formal …
EventThe NPA does not pursue charges against Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert of the SADF
… to apply for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, maintaining that he did not need amnesty, since …
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… The Act provided for the establishment of a Land Claims Commission and a Land Claims Court to respectively probe and …
EventRwandan and Burundian presidents J Habyarimana and C Ntayamira are killed in an air crash
… nation, Ruanda-Urundi. Following the crash, the Mutsinzi Commission of enquiry was established in 2007 by the Rwandan …
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… to South Africa in 1920. He founded the Electricity Supply Commission (Escom) in 1923. Escom grew and was soon providing …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… the ability of African workers to bargain up their wages, and to ensure that they put up with strenuous … The children received training in the trade instead…
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
… exercise the GCIS, in collaboration with the Human Rights Commission, should provide guidelines to departments, which … the public on how to use the…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… was not a 'real national association'. A 1956 Fifa commission of inquiry upheld this decision. The Commission of Inquiry accepted however, SAFA's argument…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… Biko applied for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) . The police admitted beating Steve Biko … police men were denied amnesty, because,…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… a multi-tiered labour market in respect of both wages, benefits and overall employment conditions, and …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… men to Kimberly to work on the diamond mines to earn cash wages, which was used to buy land. He bought land in the name …
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… worse'. A subsequent probe by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), paying no attention to the conflicting …
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… the proposal as final, and advised the Republic Peace Commission to either accept or reject it before 31 May …
EventFormer Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF), General Jannie Geldenhuys is born in Kroonstad
… was denied amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for the role he played in an attempt to …
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
… case and later in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). …
EventNine policemen are killed in Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre
… of Justice, Mr. Erasmus refused to appoint a judicial commission of inquiry into the rioting. The incident happened …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - List of Abbreviations
… Africa Peoples Organisation TRC Truth and Reconciliation Commission UDF United Democratic Front UNDP United Nations …
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… other regulations designed to force Africans to work for wages on white farms. The Zulu people, led by Chief Bambatha, … resurgence of labour struggles in…