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EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… people and return it to dispossessed Black people. In 1990, the PAC had adopted the slogan 'Year of the People's …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… Mbeki (5 November 1987) and Nelson Mandela (11 February 1990). They were arrested on 11 July 1963 when security …
EventConstructors make mass grave finding in Namibia
… of South Africa's occupation of Namibia, which ended in 1990. It was not known how many bodies the grave contained. …
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
Many South Africans have heard of the ‘Bang Bang Club,’ a nickname given to four South African photographers who captured the dying years of apartheid through…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments…
ArticleZulu
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… states stopped, Namibia got its independence in 1990, and FW de Klerk made his historic speech of February 2, 1990 announcing the unbanning of liberation…
List of deaths in detention
… Transkei Held: Nylstroom Died: Johannesburg Hospital 1 804 1990 71. Sithole, Clayton Sizwe 72. Tlhotlhomisang, Lucas 73. …
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… in the draft Bill of Rights we published in November 1990. That Bill of Rights must be contextualised in the … Structures for democratic South Africa…
PlaceNigeria
… and political activity again was permitted. In April 1990, mid-level officers tried and botched to overthrow … after secret trials before military tribunals…
EventGerard Bhengu SA artist, is born in Natal
… believed that it would ruin his natural style. He died in 1990 in Umlazi, Durban. His paintings have been part of the … Pioneer Artists of South Africa …
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… Westhuizen was at the height of his career during the mid 1990’s and early 2000’s. He played in the 1995, 1999 and …
EventGabon gains independence from France
On 17 August 1960 Gabon, the last of the four territories, which had formed French Equatorial Africa, achieved independence. Gabriel LÁƒÂƒ©on M'Ba become the…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… Inkatha Freedom Party support bases. In August 1990, the death of a hostel resident sparked a series of …
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… with her husband, returned to South Africa on 6 August 1990. She took up the position of national treasurer in the …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Martin Luther King Jr Award for Non-Violence for his commitment and role during the struggle against apartheid in 1986. …
EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… without disrupting the elections. References: Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records of World Events, Longman: London, p. …
EventThe cornerstone of Cape Town City Hall is laid
… of many a military and political gathering. On 11 February 1990, only hours after his release from prison, Nelson …
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… as a guard for a security company provided good cover. In 1990 Shilowa was elected the Vice Chairperson of the United …
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… Preface In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, … meetings involving the ANC alliance,…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… nickname "Moscow on the Hill" during the period 1960 to 1990 for its sustained Opposition to Apartheid, particularly …
The Legal Veneer
… this Act, its history, application and status as at July 1990 appears in the HRC document, entitled Internal Security Act , published in July 1990. There…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… packed by young newly weds and small babies. After 1991 the Dutch Reformed Church rapidly started to loose …
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… in 1937. List of President-General's of the ANC from 1912-1991: References: President-General of the African National …
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… and 60s), extending into each decade of the century until 1990. The unintended consequence of the miners’ strike was …
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… a measure of Madlala-Routledge assertiveness. In 1990, as political organizations were unbanned including the … be under threat of being derailed at the…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY ON 16 NOVEMBER TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS INDENTURED LABOUR HERITAGEBy Brij Maharajhttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
On 28 June 1948, Soviet forces had cut off all land access to the British, American and French zones of Berlin, a city which was located deep within Soviet…
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
On 4 April 1939 Hugh Ramopolo Masekela, South African musician, was born in Witbank, South Africa. Masekela grew up playing the piano and at a young age was…
EventSWAPO attacks SAP
… warfare, Namibia eventually attained independence in March 1990 under a SWAPO government with Sam Nujoma as president. …