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EventNelson Mandela receives a hero’s welcome in New York
… On 20 June 1990 Nelson Mandela was greeted the way New York welcomes its … ,[Accessed: 17 May 2011]|Kifner J. (1990), ‘THE MANDELA VISIT; Mandela to Get New…
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… regime. With the unbanning of political organisations in 1990, SACTU decided to disband and some of its leadership was …
EventMaria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born
… Burton, who acted as its national president from 1985 - 1990. The Black Sash is still in existence and still aims to …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… After the unbanning of the liberation movements in 1990 by the then state president F.W De Klerk, Slovo made his …
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…
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…
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…
PlaceNigeria
… and political activity again was permitted. In April 1990, mid-level officers tried and botched to overthrow … after secret trials before military tribunals…
List of deaths in detention
… Transkei Held: Nylstroom Died: Johannesburg Hospital 1 804 1990 71. Sithole, Clayton Sizwe 72. Tlhotlhomisang, Lucas 73. …
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,…
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 …
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…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… nickname "Moscow on the Hill" during the period 1960 to 1990 for its sustained Opposition to Apartheid, particularly …
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 …
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… have probably given up if it were not for her kids. In 1990 Mac makes plan for Zarina and the kids to go visit him … once again on their own in U.K. Finally,…
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
… C.P.S.A. should perhaps visualise the possible complete disbanding of the I.C.U. and in any case work for the …
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 …
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… them the bitter political feuding of the 1980's and early 1990's, that claimed the lives of so many of their loved ones … between the two parties ensued…