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EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… Radio broadcasts at the Olympics were given in 28 different languages. South African, still a British colony …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was born in Kimberley on 28 October 1908 to Ernest Oppenheimer and Mary Lina Pollock. …
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… only ceased with the new democratic dispensation in 1994. The most profound result of the strike, however, was …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… Education (1999-2004) and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger, Natal (now Kwa-Dukuza). His …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… process culminated in the first democratic elections in 1994, with Nelson Mandela as the first Black President. The …
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… of as the underdogs. In their maiden appearance in the 1994 edition of the tournament, they failed to qualify for …
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… for the election date would be moved to the 4 th of March 1994. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
Modern Humans evolve in Africa, including South Africa and the first African people begin to settle in South Africa. Hundreds of years later the first…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… themselves for arrest by openly violating the pass laws.” 28 March 1960 - ANC calls a nation-wide stay-at-home in …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… and Hewat Teachers Training College in the boycott. On 28 May 1980, two students Bernard Fortuin aged 15 and William …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… for 22 August and for the House of Delegates (Indian) for 28 August. The UDF, its affiliates and other …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… to have been seen in Saldanha Bay. By August of that year 28 slaves were reported to have deserted their owners. Some …
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… the spirit of reconciliation post-Kempton Park and April 1994, there was a quest for inclusiveness also in the public … demise of apartheid and the first…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… as president of South Africa from September 1989 to May 1994. He is widely recognized for orchestrating the end of … education system, education has actually…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… and political violence in that region in the period 1985-1994. Another important aspect is why this period was so … important historical events that took…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… supported Mobutu and his government with more than $1.03 billion in development aid and $227.4 million in military …
PlaceVenda
… South Africa in 1991. The Homeland policy was dissolved in 1994 and all the Homelands in the Country were absorbed into …
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… After South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994, Nelson Mandela chose Mbeki to be the first deputy … Mr [online] Available at: www.info.gov.za …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… in 1990. Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994. In 1999, at the end of his first term in office, he …
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… The lack of racial harmony in the country between 1960 and 1994, alongside the human right abuses by both the Apartheid …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… by the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in 1994.Related: Department of Defence - South African ArmySouth … [online] Available at: www.wikipedia…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… On 1 February 1994 President F.W. de Klerk announced the withdrawal of the …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… gained independence three years earlier in 1990. In March 1994, Walvis Bay was officially handed over to the Namibian …
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… been observed as a public holiday called 'Youth Day' since 1994. Soweto is an area of South Africa that is rich in the … Tours, Soweto., (1994), ' Hector…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… up the final constitution. The writing process began in 1994, after the first democratic election.Two years later, …
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… live in South Africa again, but visited the country after 1994 for his Retrospective exhibition in Johannesburg. …
Celebrating 20 years of ASAI!
ASAI wants to invite you to join us for a full afternoon celebrating 20 years of ASAI: making art history from below.Date: Friday, 28th November 2025Venue:…
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… until his tomb was discovered in the twentieth century. On 28 November 1922, a team of archaeologists announced that …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… from the PAC. Increased activity after Soweto Riots (1976-1994) With the increase of student violence in 1976, police … votes in the first democratic…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… phrase has not after all lost any of its tune’. [28] Gandhi felt that because Indians were ‘British subjects, … S Bhana, Gandhi’s Legacy. The Natal Indian…