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EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
… organisations. The constitutional assembly sat between May 1994 and October 1996 drafting and completing the new …
EventCrime statistics released
… marks a 7% reduction, a big improvement, as compared to 1994. National Police Commissioner George Fivaz warned …
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… what happened under apartheid between 1960 and 1994. The conflict during this period resulted in violence …
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… In a massacre on 4 February 1994 Abbas al-Bager Abbas opened fire killing 20 praying …
EventLevy Mwanawasa, third President of Zambia dies in Paris , France.
… Kenneth Kaunda. He resigned as Vice President in 1994, and retired from politics in 1996. He returned 2001 …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education
… talked-about turning point in South African history is the 1994 transfer of political power from the National Party (NP) …
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… unless it is based on the will of all the people." Since 1994, Freedom Day has been celebrated on 27 April, in … of the first democratic elections held in…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… was executed. After the first democratic election in April 1994, a new constitutional dispensation was established, and … power in 1948 and relinquished its…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament in the Government of …
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… from office. References: Business Day, Thursday 10 March 1994 …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… In 1994, the persistant tensions in Bophuthatswana homeland came …
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… applications to the TRC, rejected claims that the pre-1994 governments ordered the murder of anti-apartheid …
EventSouth Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission
… effect on 15 March 1972. South Africa joined in September 1994 but the country took a little more time before ratifying …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… position until the first democratic elections were held in 1994. …
EventTinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player is born in Harare, Zimbabwe
… 2013] Doda, Z., 2004. ‘Tinashe Nengomasha’ in Kick Off 1994-2004, Special Edition, p. 61. …
PlaceBotshabelo
… missionary field, namely in South Africa, for the next 28 years. However, from 1962 it began granting independence …
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… from the post he now holds. New Age , Cape Town, June 28, 1956. …
Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to E. R. Roux, 8 May 1928
… 8.5,28. E. R. Roux 53 Lensfield Road, Cambridge England. Dear …
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… She married Lowell Eldred Grant Price in Bloemfontein on 28 October 1961.[ix] Reynolds reached the semifinals of the …
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… the CI. In 1977, he was banned for the first time, and on 28 October 1982, he was banned for a further three years. …
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… a trial, in Luanda, Angola, sentencing commenced on the 28 June 1976. Three British mercenaries and an American were …
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… [online] Available at:www.encounter.co.za [Accessed at:28 November 2013] Giliomee, H and Mbenga, B (eds) (2007) New …
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… South African Labour Party white miners went on strike on 28 December 1921. The strike became particularly intense in …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on 28 July 2008. … 'Profile: New UN human rights chief' from BBC News, 28 July 2008 [online],…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… fall, and Legacy of apartheid, (Praeger Publishers), pp.28-29 …
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… February the Boers began to retreat from Colesberg, and on 28 February British forces under Major-General RAP Clements …
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
The Bantu Dramatic Society was founded in Johannesburg by Herbet Dhlomo in 1933 and was devoted to promoting black theatrical development. It was housed at the…
Address to the Nation by President Thabo Mbeki, 21 September 2008
… in the decades before the attainment of our freedom in 1994. Among other things, the vision, principles and values … Mandela and others, we as government,…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… self, M.A., University of Cape Town. Du Toit, Andries (1994), "Fragile Defiance: The African Resistance Movement", … Johns Hopkins University Press. Lazerson…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 19 September 2003
… throughout the country. We have come a long way since 1994. We were a country divided and a nation in turmoil, facing a bleak future. From April 27, 1994, we…