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EventThe Town Victoria West is founded under the name Victoria, named after Queen Victoria
… Cape. Today, the town has a population of just over 11 000. It is a thriving small town with a booming sheep …
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… L’Amour la fantasia (Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade). In 1990, she became a member of the jury for the Neustadt … tradition and modernization” (Assia Djebar…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein Prison
… also took his steps to freedom through these gates in 1990. The prison has a huge bronze statue of Mandela with his …
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… in 1999. Mandela, who was released from prison in February 1990, became the first democratic president of the Republic …
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
The Transvaal University College, with branches in Johannesburg and Pretoria, took the examinations of the Cape University. The Pretoria branch of the…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… Dr. A.H. Zulu and Dr. Frank .T. Mdlalose. On 14 July 1990, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) came into being at a …
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… South Africa on the road to full democracy. In February,1990, he freed Nelson Mandela and unbanned the African …
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the adoption of an Interim Constitution during and after 1990, as then DP leader Zach de Beer was elected the first …
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… , addressed the memorial service References: Fraser, R. (1990). Keesing's Records of World Events, Longman: London, p. …
EventSouth African boxers,Zolile Mbityi and Peter Malinga both win world titles
… The number of South African world champions peaked in the 1990's. The country had six world champions in 1995, five the …
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… on 19 February 1964 in Springs, on the East Rand. In the 1990’s Kebble got into mining and was soon director of three … IOL News [online] Available at: www…
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… suppression of political and cultural renewal. Early in 1990, a group of ex-uMkhonto weSizwe(MK) cadres mysteriously … B., Maxongo, A., Tshona, Z., Massango,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… and Kitchener Leballo, its national secretary, as well as 11 others are charged with incitement to riot. 24 March, The … that South Africa wants to remain in…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… report in The International, January 14, 1916. Document 11: '170 Million Recruits', editorial in The International, … - Notes of the Conference',The…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
… 11 th Annual Julius Nyerere Lecture on Popular Education: … its first tour of South Africa. The colloquium (9:00 – 11:30, UWC) is for invited popular…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Africa . Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman, 1991. (chapters 11-13) Plaatje, Solomon Tshekisho. Native Life in South … in South Africa . Craighall, Ad Donker,…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 17 May 1983, Volume 70 and Volume 71
… Transcript of evidence (continued from 9, 10, 11 and 16 May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the …
EventRhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, declares a state of emergency
… of the franchise leading to eventual African rule. On 11 November, the Smith government issued a unilateral …
EventAt least twenty people are injured in a collision between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo at Deelfontein, near De Aar
… On 27 October 2005 at about 11.30pm, the Trans Karoo Express collided with a stationary …
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
… early 2011, leading to fears of a repeat of the disaster 11 years earlier. The floods, however, turned out to be less …
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… declaration of independence for Katanga province on 11 July. The intervention by UN troops followed Patrice …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… dead and scores injured. Following the proclamation, 11 727 people were detained. In April 1960, the government …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… 1860 -1911. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1990 Bhana, S-, Indentured Indian immigrants to Natal, 1860 - … and Outsiders. The Indian Working…
PlaceGriqualand West
… It was retained as the Magistrate’s Court until May 1990, when the staff moved into their new premises on Knight … itself, a National Monument (declared so…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… as the 1976 Uprising, 1985-1986 Mass Mobilisation, 1989-1990 Defiance Campaign, inter alia. …
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
The Minister of Sport, Piet Koornhof, announced a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declared that the government is working towards eliminating…
EventBheki Mlangeni, ANC human rights lawyer of Soweto, is killed by a walkman bomb meant for Dirk Coetzee.
Bheki Mlangeni was a lawyer working for the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s. He and former police Captain Dirk Coetzee had worked together to…
EventGeneral Lothar Neethling sues Vrye Weekblad and the Weekly Mail
… On 20 January 1990 General Lothar Neethling sued the Vrye Weekblad and the …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… incident of political violence took place in February 1990 after South African President F.W. de Klerk made a … O’Malley, P. ‘1990’ , from Nelson Mandela…
EventGrammy Award winner Miriam Makeba is born in Johannesburg
… African countries before she returned to South Africa in 1990. She has won several awards for her music, including a …