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EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… Africa, following the release of Mandela on 11 February 1990. One of the reasons advanced for this violence is that … The release of Nelson Mandela on 11 of…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… meeting at Curries Fountain in Durban and declared the 20 February 1946 as a day of prayer on which people were …
PlaceCape Town International Airport
… Prime Minister. With the fall of Apartheid in the early 1990's, the Airport came under the control of the newly … that you’d expect as a traveler. The…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… : The 'Coolie Location' is struck by bubonic plague. 20 March, Fietas, Johannesburg: The mixed population is …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… Coinciding with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the 1990 unbanning of the SACP occurred in a paradoxical … the 7th Congress held in Cuba, quietly resigned…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… ANC Secretary-General and initialled by Nelson Mandela. 20 August, Walter Sisulu officiates at a meeting held in Lady … in Natal. 22 September, Thousands of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1980 18 April, Zimbabwe gains its independence. 1980 20 April, Mounting protests by Coloured students against the … June, a national emergency was declared,…
Speech by Deputy Minister Gwendoline Mahlangu-Nkabinde, South African Deputy Minister of Economic Development at a Business Conference held in conjunction with the Wuhan Government, Wuhan, China 11 August 2010
… companies and government departments, placement offers for 20 000 graduates, international placement of more than 700 …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Her career skyrocketed in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Things seemed to all go downhill in the mid 1990’s when rumours of drug abuse began to surface…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… white supremacy was inevitable; yet there was no reason in 1990 to anticipate the sudden collapse of the government’s … decided to proclaim the republic on…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts timeline 1602-1966
… 1602 20 March, The Dutch East India Company (VOC) comes into … There are 40 free burghers with about 15 women and 20 children settled at the Cape to…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… they still needed time to organise structures, decided on 20 August as the government would introduce the Tricameral … of delegates, which was followed by a…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… of treason and that their trial would begin on April 20, 1959, or afterwards. Presumably they were to be tried … conclusion of the trial of the thirty…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… him without his right arm and blind in one eye. In early 1990, Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders were released from … fascinated to be shown footage he…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… that WW II influenced the rise of African nationalism. [20] Firstly, through the Atlantic Charter, AB Xuma’s, African … ka Isaka Seme: African unity against…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… be in place for the duration of White rule until June 1990. Out of step with the sentiments of the majority, …
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… This leads to speculation that he will soon be released 1990 The ANC is unbanned Mandela was released after spending …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Notes [i] Bevil Rudd, https://www.olympic.org/bevil-rudd (20 April 2017). ↵ [ii] Bevil Rudd, … (20 April 2017). ↵ [iii] Bevil Rudd, … (20 April 2017). ↵ [iv]…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… poaching. President Moi burning ivory. Image source 1990 Communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapse, bringing … riots during demonstrations and stoke…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… of La Guma's work was available in South Africa until 1990, when the liberation movements were unbanned. Mongane … prison poetry was published in English in…
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
… A region renowned for its bitter water, in 1990, Bitterfontein became the location of South Africa’s … accessed on 20 March. ↵ [2] D. A. Still, ‘Small…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… homelands abolished. The unbanning of the ANC in February 1990 opened up a new era in the country and in the region. … A senior delegation of the ANC held…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
The opening moment of education in South Africa coincides with the foundation of the colonial experience at the Cape in 1652. Six years after the Dutch East…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… ANC or sympathetic to it. With the unbanning of the ANC in 1990 many of the prominent UDF members joined the ANC. Soon … food and moral support. The…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… 22 , A protest day with marches is announced for 20 March 1951. The Food and Canning Workers Union and the … and its allies as South Africa's Freedom Day…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion Christian Church[i] . Its members, estimated to number between 2…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… which forced the regime to end. On the 11 February 1990, F.W. de Klerk, who was South Africa’s president at that …
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… (20 April 2017). ↵ [ii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South … (20 April 2017). ↵ [vi] Rudolph Lewis, … (20 April 2017). ↵ [vii] Rudolf Ludewyk Lewis, … (20…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… (ed.). The Island: A History of Robben Island, 1488-1990 . Online 1996. Available url: … Area . Unpublished MA thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. Field,…