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EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… therefore set up the Harms Commission in Britain in 1990 to investigate these claims. In his testimony, Coetzee …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… paved the way for formal Namibian independence in 1990. … coast, has enjoyed stability since gaining independence in 1990 after a long struggle against rule…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… and other organisations were later unbanned on 2 February 1990, and a non-racial constitution was eventually agreed …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… and Economy Group. After the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, TIC leaders and activists became active in the …
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… could recite long passages from Nehru’s writings even in 1991 when I met him at Luthuli House. At the end of the last …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… the disbandment of the UDF. After the ANC was unbanned in 1990, the NIC and the TIC, had various meetings with the ANC …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… us. Accordingly, the independence of Namibia on 21 March 1990 was an important milestone that ensured that the freedom … celebrations in this city on that…
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… MINUTE" While our political organisations were unbanned in 1990, there were still obstacles to the holding of … armed struggle. At a meeting held in Pretoria…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Johannesburg opening of the Anne Frank Exhibition at the Museum Africa Johannesburg, 15 August 1994
… of the Shoa alive and challenges discrimination today; 1990 : SOS Racism, France, especially for the way it reached young people from different backgrounds;…
PlacePietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens
… by the: ' National Botanic Gardens of South Africa' . In 1991, the Botanical Research Institute and the National … over by the National Botanic Gardens of…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… success, Cole died destitute and lonely in New York in 1990 and until recently his story was largely unknown. Yet in … He died of pancreatic cancer at the…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… The Iziko South African (SA) Maritime Centre opened in 1990. It is based at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A …
PlaceWelkom
… of flats, about 75 minutes after the event. On 20 March 1990, Welkom was struck by a multi-vortex tornado which went … front and had a width of up to 1.7 km…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… in the South African Communist Party (SACP) in exile 1960-1990. It proposes three interlocking areas of inquiry: first, … African Women in the 1950s (Hassim…
PlaceSoccer City (FNB Stadium) -Johannesburg
… the First Speech from Former President Nelson Mandela in 1990 , a few days after being released from prison where he …
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… the use of the death penalty was suspended in February 1990, South Africa had one of the highest rates of judicial …
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… Foreign Affairs, Joaquim Chissano, on 3 November 1986. By 1990, direct talks were held between FRELIMO and RENAMO and …
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… its mandate and continued to administrate SWA. On 21 March 1990, after more than twenty years of warfare, Namibia …
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… ended with the release of Nelson Mandela from prison in 1990 and the country's first fully democratic elections in …
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… particularly the Benrose massacre on 13 September 1990. He also named a Zimbabwean who had allegedly been …
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… on a South African government hit list . On the 28 April 1990, Father Lapsley received two pieces of mail from South …
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… has been marred by controversy. This first incident was in 1990, when he was forced to resign from the Dutch Reformed …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… using the bible as a foundation of racial segregation. In 1990, the church also declared its personal guilt and …
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
South Africa announced that it had completed destroying its stock pile of anti-personnel mines. A total of 261 423 were destroyed, while 18 000 were retained…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… pass laws in Sharpeville, Vereeniging. On 2 February 1990 the National Party (NP) government unbanned political …
EventWorld War I begins
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… in the South African struggle. It was Slovo who in 1990 was credited with persuading Nelson Mandela and other …