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EventLocal government elections thrown in disarray
… against the use of decree powers by President Nelson Mandela, threw the preparations for the local elections … (NP) provincial government of Western Cape was…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… was Slovo who in 1990 was credited with persuading Nelson Mandela and other resistance leaders to suspend their … since 1942, Slovo's long standing…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… Kruger to be pulled down and replaced by one of Winnie Mandela. The call is part of an ongoing campaign by the … and Member of Parliament, who was married to…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We … themselves prosecuted if they did not evict the Africans. MANDELA AND TAMBO was written huge…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… Desmond Tutu , former President F W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, to invite the Dalai Lama (of Tibet) as a guest. The …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… amnesty order from FW de Klerk. Hani stays with Winnie Mandela for a brief period after returning home from exile. … shows that he is the most popular leader…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… and government-issue condoms. Original caption: Nelson Mandela visits Morris Isaacson School where the Soweto … had decided to assassinate former SA…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… POETRY: The Workers' Trail, Mi Hlatshwayo; Buya Mandela, Mandlinyoka Ntanzi; There Was a Time, Ari Sitas; A …
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… able to arrest others such as Dennis Goldberg and Nelson Mandela. When the Liliesleaf raid occurred Nelson Mandela was serving a five year sentence for…
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
… Klerk and his ruling National Party. The release of Nelson Mandela from prison and the unbanning of the African National … will lead to democratic, non…
EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… SA's newly inaugurated state president, Nelson Mandela, announced in his first State of the Nation Address … of the United Nations (UN). Click here to read…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… and detainees, and unbanned many people, including Nelson Mandela. On 20 and 21 December the first session of CODESA … as a loyal critic of the ANC-led…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… of political prisoners. Campaigning on behalf of Nelson Mandela was reinvigorated from the time of his 60th birthday … in 1978 until his release in February…
PlaceRobben Island Museum
… a daily routine devised to destroy their humanity. Nelson Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist who would later become … to being transferred to another…
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… Ahmed Kathrada, Lionel Bernstein and Bob Hepple. Nelson Mandela, the commander-in-chief of MK, was not arrested at … found documents relating to the…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… modest financial assistance for Oliver Tambo , Nelson Mandela and Robert Resha , who were attending a conference … the first MK group in Odessa in the USSR…
EventUS Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
… of eight days, Kennedy managed to pay a visit to Winnie Mandela , wife of the imprisoned African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela. …
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… the passing the Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Comrade Nelson Mandela. The ANC expresses its sincere gratitude to every … that shall be in South Africa to console…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… of three weeks after it was unveiled by President Nelson Mandela. 2006 February, The statue of Chief Makhado in …
ArchiveAfrican National Congress Consultative Conference: Speeches and Resolutions
… speech by Oliver Tambo, keynote address by Nelson R Mandela, declaration of the conference, resolution on … in Johannesburg, 16 December, 1990, and speech by…
EventUS President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town
… success." The Clintons were hosted by President Nelson Mandela, who also accompanied them to Robben Island, where Mandela had spent 18 years in prison. …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… who, on 2 February, 1990 announced the release of Nelson Mandela as well as the unbanning of political parties. Subsequently, Mandela was released from…
EventUDF distances itself from Madikizela
… about the organisation's suspicion of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's behaviour after the death of Stompie Seipei. The … and it was also closely associated with…
EventANC dismisses proposals to postpone elections
… Nelson Mandela, president of the African National Congress (ANC), … Development and Communications Roelf Meyer supported Mandela in saying that deferment was…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… he was instrumental, along with Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela, in forming the ANC Youth League (1944). He was … for planning acts of sabotage. The…
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
… his banishment in June 1961 Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki secretly met and discussed the … He served as political commissar of MK with…
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
… in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight were Nelson Mandela , the central figure in the trial, along with Dennis … Andrew Mlangeni , Elias Motsoaledi and…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… general elections, Thabo Mbeki, who had replaced Nelson Mandela as the party's leader, became the second Black … held at the Union Buildings, during which…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… Port Elizabeth and Durban. 1962 January, Nelson Mandela leaves South Africa for military training. March, Mandela receives training from the Algerian…
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… the supporters of the two leaders. President Nelson Mandela was drawn into the conflict when he was invited as a … by a military helicopter to Johannesburg…