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EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… United Party (UP) and the Progressive Party (PP). In 1994, following threats to boycott the first democratic … Greenwood Press.| SAHO, 2011 ‘IFP agrees to…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… the time the first democratic elections had taken place in 1994, relative calm had been restored to areas of conflict. … ANC and Inkatha Violence in South…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… culminated in the first democratic election on 27 April 1994 eventually ushering in a democratic South Africa …
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… human rights abuses that took place between 1960 and 1994. …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… sworn in as the country's first democratic president in 1994. The South African constitution has a stipulation that …
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… into the Republic of South Africa on 27 April 1994. It now forms part of Mpumalanga province. …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This election changed the history of South Africa. It …
EventThe Organisation of African Unity is formed and Africa Day is declared
… with South Africa becoming the 53rd member on 23 May 1994. The OAU started its operations on 13 September, 1963, …
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… presidency in 1993 when a referendum ended his reign. In 1994 Bakili Muluzu succeeded Banda as president of Malawi …
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… 12 for Denis Chapter 13 The Roving Educator Chapter 14 "We are witnesses"(24): for Denis Goldberg Chapter 15 …
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… were released on bail and were due to appear in court on 14 May 1984, while the South Africans were granted bail of …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… Front (UDF). The date of Bacher's announcement is given as 14 February in one source. …
EventSimon van der Stel, commander and governor of the Cape, is born
… Simon van der Stel was born on 14 October 1639 in Mauritius, the son of Adrian van der Stel, …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… The first electric tram line commenced service on 14 of February 1906. Electric trams had been proven to be an …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… is belied by the fact that about 28 000 Whites and 14 000 Blacks perished in the camps. Click here to read more …
ArticleHealth and welfare
… opportunities. Although some progress has been made since 1994, the extent of poverty and inequality is still … and the demands of the people and women in…
ArticleZulu
… won the agreement of ANC negotiators just before the April 1994 elections that, with international mediation, the … home affairs in the first Government of…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… for our delegation that reminded us of our own 27 April 1994 - Freedom Day - and 10 May 1994 when Comrade Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first … in…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… before the Supreme Court Bloemfontein during August 1955. 14 August, Sisulu attends a secret ANC meeting in Durban. … home as he was not allowed to be away…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… contain Black resistance to white rule. The third held in 1994, represented the triumph of the struggle for non racial …
ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
… Manor Development Association (CMDA) to redevelop the area 1994 Thousands of newly enfranchised voters line the streets …
References and links: Local History
… Carolina Press. McMahan E. M. (ed), Rogers K. M. (ed) 1994. Interactive Oral History Interviewing. New Jersey: …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… a similar assurance to the Natal Municipal Association. 14 March, The Lawrence Committee holds its inaugural meeting … Davidson Don Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu…
ArticleThe Arniston
… There were a total of 378 people on board, including 14 women and 25 children (Story of the HMS Arniston | Xplorio …
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… know. We weren't told these things were happening.' [14] Photographs have an intimate relationship with history. … South Africa (London: James Currey Ltd.,…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… Kajee made three proposals to the Congress Committee: [14] That the name of the amalgamated the Natal Indian … Ibid, p4 [11] Ibid, p4-5 [12] Ibid, p5 [13]…
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… 1992 Raymond Mhlaba 1992 Wilton Mkwai 1992 Joe Slovo 1994 Ray Alexander Simons 2004 Chris Hani 2008 Ruth Mompati …
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
… Mandela jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. In 1994, he was appointed second vice president in Nelson …
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… was only put into force in South Africa by Telkom in 1994. … Burger, D. (ed)(2002) South Africa Yearbook 2001/02 , Pretoria: GCIS, p. 222| The International…
EventSA signs multilateral treaty on the civil liability for oil pollution damage
… publicized oil spill in recent history took place in June 1994, when the Apollo Sea, a Chinese ore carrier, sank along …