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EventColdest day in Pretoria
… the daily average maximum temperatures in Pretoria is 20 degrees with a minimum of 1 degree centigrade. …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… these May Day protests, was legislated shortly after, on 20 June 1950. This May Day rally was significant in the … Party - May Day", South African Communist…
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. …
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… foreign exchange in our country. It also contributes about 20 billion rand directly to the tax revenue. Mining also … programme. In the past two years alone,…
EventThe Internal Security Act is passed
… provision of the Internal Security Act. Sections 19(1) and 20 dealt with the banning of people, including confinement to …
Apartheid power in crisis
… (September 1989) • Apartheid under Pressure (May 1990) In the first part we consider 2 crucial events from the … part we extract a segment from a document…
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
Click on image to enlarge The mill was probably erected during the early 20th century. Its water wheel and cast-iron machinery drove a set of millstones, and…
EventBafana Bafana wins against Botswana
… games. The game, which was attended by approximately 20 000 spectators, was played at Botswana national stadium in …
EventANC makes second submission before TRC
… An African National Congress (ANC) delegation of 20 members, led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, made the …
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… and offered to supply a musical band without charge. 20 September, The Indian Agent-General, Sir Benegal Rama Rau, … opened an office at Pembroke Chambers in…
ArticleReferencing Resources for Historical Research
… , (accessed 20 May 2025). Reference List: Fanon, F., 'Decolonisation and … , (accessed 20 May 2025). Website 1 South African History Online, Home [website],…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… occupations to whites and coloureds only. Repealed by s 20 of the Mines and Works Amendment Act No 27 of 1956 Albert … is reached between Gen. J.C. Smuts and…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… when the first slave shipment arrived, between 11 and 20 slaves had already been brought to the Cape colony. In … historians guessing the number could be…
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. …
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… a border dispute broke out with Burkino Faso. By the mid-1990's ethnic conflict broke out between the Tuareg people …
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.
… Tours, [online] Available at: soweto.co.za [Accessed 09 June 2009]|Joburg., (1994) ' The Hector Petersen Memorial … [online] Available at: www…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… that led to its approval was not an easy one. It began in 1990 with the unbanning of political parties and the release …
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 …
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… On 20 March 1956, Tunisia gained its independence from France … ‘On this day in history: Tunisia independence, 1956’ , 20 March, [online], Available at: …
EventKing Goodwill Zwelithini is born in Nongoma
… monarch of the Zulus at a traditional ceremony attended by 20 000 people in Nongoma on the 3rd of December 1971. …
EventFirst public service of the Church of England in South Africa
… worship of the Church was conducted in Cape Town, on 20 April 1749. Regular services commenced in 1806 after the …