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EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… African government released Sisulu from prison. In July 1991 Sisulu was elected ANC Deputy-President. Walter Sisulu …
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
Art in the state of siegeThe Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events,…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… Business and Economy Group. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, the NIC and the TIC, had various meetings with the ANC …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… 944 features were made in South Africa from 1971 to 1991, as well as nearly 998 documentaries and several hundred short films and videos. 1990 The new…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… prisoners. Nelson Mandela was released on 11 February 1990. The Law Today Between 1990 and 1993 the government was involved in negotiations …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… people (South African Institute for Race Relations, 1990: 95). The Rent Control Amendment Act allowed lessor to … of the lease (South African Institute for…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agricultre Organisation: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 4 March 2004
… the rural masses. Some relevant figures show that: In 1991, in Tanzania 20 percent of the urban population suffered … Those for Mozambique in 1997 were 62…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… support for the reform process he started in February 1990. Surprisingly, the majority of Afrikaans-speaking Whites …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… to administer South West Africa as a province up until 1990, when South West Africa finally gained its independence …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… agreed to give up control of Namibia. And on 21 March 1990, Namibia was granted its independence. …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… phones became commercially popular in South Africa in the 1990's, and today it is estimated that 60% of South African …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… his 27 years in jail at the Robben Island Prison. In June 1990 he retired from politics at the age of 80. …
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… the United States and others to withhold aid. In December 1991 Moi agreed to legalize opposition political parties, but …
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… them to the murder of Dlamini. Their reprieve came in 1991 when negotiations between liberation movements and …
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… were executed per year than anywhere else in the world. In 1990, during the interregnum, de Klerk ordered a stay on all …
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… first organisations to meet the ANC after its unbanning in 1990 and welcomed the opportunity to reconnect with the Tamil …
EventNelson Mandela is born
… and then Victor Verster prison before he was released in 1990. Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994. …
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
… in which 19 people were killed. MK was disbanded in 1990 and was integrated into the South African National …
EventUS Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia
… the withdrawal of Cuban forces from Angola. On March 21, 1990 Namibia officially achieved independence. … 75 Years of Pretoria's Rule." New York Times. 21…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
The three heads of state met for 13 days of secret meetings at Camp Devid, the Presidential Retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, about 100 kilometers…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… crime rose dramatically in the capital, Abijan. By 1990, a strike of civil servants and students led to the …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… Namibia had gained independence three years earlier in 1990. In March 1994, Walvis Bay was officially handed over to …
EventNelson Mandela meets President P.W. Botha to begin negotiating the end of apartheid
… to Pollsmoor in 1982, then to Victor Verster in 1988-1990. The unfavourable economic situation of South Africa, …
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.
The Hector Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The Museum is situated on Kumalo Street in Orlando West, and is named…
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
… first in the 1970s when he was exiled from Lesotho and in 1990 when he was stripped of constitutional powers and …
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… Cape Town City Hall was totally eclipsed on 11 February 1990, when a newly-released Nelson Mandela stood on the …
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… letters and visits to prison and when he was released in 1990, Winnie was there holding his hand, but in private she … prison. When they met in Mozambique's…
PlaceChad
… coup: to Hissène Habré in 1982, and then to Idriss Déby in 1990 [cv] . Another explanation for Chad's turbulent history … tactics would take a huge toll on…
Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa’s “Attracting Capital to Africa” Summit, 19-22 April 1997; Chantilly Virgiana, USA
… all African traditions, that the people must govern! Since 1990, more that 25 sub-Saharan countries have held democratic … has reached an average of 4% in…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… Apartheid in South Africa," African Affairs 89 (354) (1990): 57-84. The Native Administration Act (192.7) gave the … Life of Dorothy Thompson (Boston: Little…