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EventBilateral talks to continue
… settlement regarding the state of affairs. On 27 November, 1990, a joint ANC-government statement was issued after a …
EventProposal for a new constitution
… of Constitutional Development, Gerrit Viljoen on 27 August 1990 said that negotiations for a new South African …
EventSkipper Bertie Reed passes away
… a submerged iceberg in the Southern Ocean during the 1990/91 BOC Challenge. For this heroic deed and example of …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
Helen Zille studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) where she obtained a BA Degree. She went on to become a…
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… bringing 31 years of German rule to an end. On 21 March 1990, Namibia was granted its independence by South Africa. …
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… evidence was led on behalf of South Africa. On 21 March 1990, Namibia officially gained its independence from South …
ArchiveInterview with Sibongile Mthembu Mkhabela
… subsequently was a defendant in the trial of the "Soweto 11" and was jailed for two years. Answers have been …
EventThe trial of eleven Soweto students charged under the Terrorism Act begins
… and terrorism between May 1976 and October 1977. On 11 May, 1979they were convicted of sedition and sentenced to …
ArticleMapungubwe
The ancient city of Mapungubwe (meaning 'hill of the jackal') is an Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa,…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… starting in January 2011, their tuition would jump by 11 percent and their residential fees by 14 percent. 2011 …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… Norwegian Nobel Committee. Nobel Lecture by Tutu, December 11, 1984 . Statement by archbishop Desmond Tutu in response …
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… are found at Goodhope Primary in Bellville South. 11 August, African pupils from Langa, Gugulethu and Nyanga …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… 6 000 French troops from the capital to the frontline. By 11 September, all the divisions of the German army deployed …
EventFormer Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta, dies
… Kenyatta [online] Available at: britannica.com [Accessed 11 August 2009] Jomo Kenyatta - A Leader of Black Africa … (1952) The Age [online]. 12 November, p.2…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… ultimately captured in the first battle of Silkaatsnek on 11 July 1900. After the fall of Pretoria on 5 June 1900, the … harsh conditions using the…
PlaceCookhouse, Eastern Cape
… married 21st October 1798 & Maria Johanna MENTZ married 11 Mar 1826. The Grave is situated near the Fish River (it's … The Museum is open most Saturdays…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… emotional security within the pre-colonial family' (Walker 1990:19). For African women in the reserves, where they soon … ANC or sympathetic to it. With the…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
… kidnapped, bombed, banished etc. Since 2 February 1990, your government echoes what we have said and practised … of the barrel of your gun. You proved that…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… some dating to the early 1920s, in A. M. Duggan-Cronin’s 11-volume “Bantu Tribes of South Africa,” likewise combine … leading up to the release of Nelson…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… the ANC’s Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament in the …
EventSA Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster reveals that SA scientists have succeeded in developing a new process for uranium enrichment
… project was initiated under the auspices of the AEB. In 1990, President F. W. de Klerk terminated the program and in …
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… France continued its nuclear tests for years. In the 1990’s France was still conducting nuclear tests in the …
PlaceDe Goede Verwachting, 17 Cavalcade Road, Green Point
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 11 September 1964. …
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 11 April 1980. The reserve was named after …
EventAhmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria, is released after fourteen years in prison
… and placed under house arrest until 1980. Bella died on 11 April 2012. …
EventSA withdraws from the International Labour Organisation
… The date is given as 14 March in another source, but 11 March is mentioned in the official declaration by the …
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South …
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in the Drakensberg Range
… 1950, the Devil's Tooth was considered unclimbable, but on 11 August 1950 E. Scholes, D. Bell and P. Campbell formed a …
EventThe inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is celebrated
… Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 473. …
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… in South Africa. The conference will be held from 08-11 October 2013 in the Kimberley, Northern Cape, under the …