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PlacePhansi Museum
The Museum houses some of the finest examples of African artefacts, such as: beadwork, headrests, milk pails, snuff containers, tobacco pipes, telephone wire…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… March, the government declared a State of Emergency, and 11 727 persons were detained. Subsequently, the government …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… support for the reform process he started in February 1990. Surprisingly, the majority of Afrikaans-speaking Whites …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… to administer South West Africa as a province up until 1990, when South West Africa finally gained its independence …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… agreed to give up control of Namibia. And on 21 March 1990, Namibia was granted its independence. …
EventA Pilot Cellular phone project is launched
… phones became commercially popular in South Africa in the 1990's, and today it is estimated that 60% of South African …
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. …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… Society meeting in honour of passive resisters. March 11, Gandhi accompanied a number of passive resisters to the … 135- 8-2 From Mozambique 50- 0-0 From…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… A record of political violence in South Africa, July 1990 - June 1993 HRC, August 1993 1. The measure of the … of the violence 5. Conclusions Preface The…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… her bus was forced to turn around and go back to Natal. [11] On 9 August 1956 she was involved in a demonstration … - The People behind the 1956 Women's…
ArticleThe Arniston
… The rest of the Arniston’s passengers washed up until 11 July 1815 and were buried behind the dunes (Story of the …
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… (1899 - 1902) The first incident which took place here, on 11 July 1900, was a fierce Battle in which three Victoria … between them taken by the guns. The…
Doing Oral History
… ceased to exist. The reoccupation of Roosboom started in 1990 and today the community is larger than ever before. … into three groupings, known as …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… of the NIC to hold elections before 30 September 1945. On 11 September 1945, Justice Hathorn ruled in favour of the … of the SAIC in Cape Town that took…
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 … One Hanged in Seventy Two Hours”,…
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 … Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa …
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.
The Hector Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The Museum is situated on Kumalo Street in Orlando West, and is named…
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 …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… been subjected first to colonial oppression (link to Grade 11, Colonialism, Capitalism and Conflict) and then, from …
EventChad gains its independence
… Full and autonomous independence was declared for Chad by 11 August 1960 with Francois N'Garta Tombalbaye being elected …
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… meaning ‘help one another’), is marked by the event of 11 February 1966. On this day the district was declared a …