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… Major-General Bantu Holomisa. The army denied taking part in any coup and announced that ministers who resigned were … did not run away from Transkei but was on sick leave in Port Elizabeth. The coup came when Transkeians were …

… sentenced to death by stoning by the Bakori Sharia court in the Katsina Islamic state of Nigeria. Lawal was accused of … an international case that highlighted the plight of women in Nigeria's northern Muslim states, which were given … 'Nigerian Islamic Court Clears Amina Lawal of Adultery in Stoning Case' , September 25,from Mind Fully,[Online], …

… Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, President F.W. De Klerk announced that a further ten unnamed officers implicated in the report were being withdrawn from service without loss …

… Qqozo, military leader of Ciskei homeland, went on trial in the Ciskei Supreme Court. He faced charges of murder or … killing of Lieutenant Charles Sebe during a coup attempt in January, 1991. The judge rejected the view of Qqozo's …

… died unexpectedly of a heart attack at the age of 75 in the Wilderness, Western Cape. About three hundred people, … Chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, attended the funeral in the Wilderness. References: SAPA, EX-DEFENCE FORCE CHIEFS, …

… to achieve its objectives. A list of ANC members who died in exile, including the names of 34 members executed by order of a military tribunal, was also contained in the document. Click here to read ANC submission document …

… of a belief that he has been overlooked by Nelson Mandela in naming him the second most powerful person in the country instead of Thabo Mbeki. Ramaphosa was widely …

… National Congress (ANC) between 1990 and the 1994 election in a bid to destabilise the organisation. Van der Merwe … to carry out these brutalities against its opponents in an effort to undermine them.   … SAPA, (1998), TRC TO NOTIFY THOSE IMPLICATED IN ILLEGAL POLICE ACTS , from South African Press …

… weeks of speculations on the fate of Winnie Mandela in the government, president Nelson Mandela eventually … should review her position and seek to improve her conduct in a position of responsibility. …

… of office wearing their specially designed green robes in the presence of the president and the minister of justice, … of the death penalty. The court spent its first few years in rented accommodation, but on Human Rights Day, on 21 March …

… counterpart Joaquim Chissano. The meeting resulted in the two countries entering into the RSA/Mozambique Joint … an enabling mechanism to sign more than twenty agreements in various spheres of co-operation, inter alia, regular …

… elected President of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the early 1960's and the world conference on 'Church and … the outspoken cleric Bishop Desmond Tutu, were restricted in this manner. … D.T.,(1994), Hearing Many Voices: Dialogue and Diversity in the Ecumenical Movement ,(University Press of America)p.102 …

… A time bomb placed in the Johannesburg railway station exploded during the evening rush hours. The explosion resulted in the death of one person and severe injuries to more than …

… Houari Souyah, President of the Algerian Peace Committee in Algiers, to Dr Yussuf Dadoo, a former President of the … (SAIC) and the leader of the anti-apartheid movement in Britain. Source: Leader Newspaper. …

… eight of the accused were sentenced to life imprisonment in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The eight were Nelson Mandela , the central figure in the trial, along with Dennis Goldberg , Walter Sisulu , …

… chief of Ekurhuleni Metro Police, Robert McBride, was born in Addington Hospital, Durban. McBride led the ANC's armed … we Sizwe cell, which planted a bomb at Magoo's Bar in Durban. He was arrested and convicted for the Magoo Bar …

… to South Africa  to protect the oil route round the Cape in the face of escalating Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean.  At the time, the Soviet Union was …

… British Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, announced in the House of Commons that the British government has … against its policy of segregation. The country was in its third year as a republic, established on 31 May 1961 … Boddy-Evans A. ‘This day in African history: 17 November’ , from About African History …

… international world strongly sympathised with South Africa in the aftermath of the massacre.  Tambo left the country … a job as a nurse. The family returned to South Africa in 1990. …

… an information and small photographic exhibition stand in conjunction with South African History Online at the 2015 … Visitors to the stand can pay homage to those who lived in Harfield & Claremont before forced removals, and share …

… on the Basic Conditions of Employment as reflected in the statement dated 14 July 1997. COSATU is disappointed … if Labour and Business do not reach an agreement on areas in deadlock. COSATU does not however wish to have a public …

… Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It … the San language meaning ‘whiter than white’ which was in reference to the sandstone that makes up most of the …

… A-F contain observations relevant to issues raised in your memorandum and elaboration on issues dealt with in this letter. There are however a number of fundamental …

… He replaced FW de Klerk as leader of the National Party in 1997 and later changed the name of the party to New … general elections announced that his party will disband in 2005 and he would join the African National Congress. He …

… Following years of struggle in courts and abortive parliamentary attempts to pass the … It removed Coloured voters from the common voters roll in the Cape and placed them on a separate roll. The Cape was …

… resistance and non-violent campaigns left the Tolstoy Farm in Transvaal (now known as the Gauteng Province). After being … funds, and whether the thousands of men who participated in the last phase of the struggle would have borne their … there had been no Tolstoy Farm." (Kirti Menon, Broucher, in The Story of Tolstoy Farm) …

… by South African archaeologists, C. Auret and .T.Maggs in 1982, the final resting place of the Sao Bento is located … concerned as the Sao Bento, as well as the Sao Joao, were in a poor condition, undersupplied, overloaded and sailing in very poor weather. Off the coast of the Transkei, the Sao …

… of America 84 East 10th Street New York Dear Comrade:- In our last meeling held on the 22 of April, 1932 at 9 Fuller … our notice is Volume V, whole No.97 dated January 2, 1932, in which we find on page three an article entitled “Stalin … desire to keep on our files. Comrades, do not be worried in seeing all these applicants being negroes and think that …

… freedom and democracy for all peoples. We are living in a much troubled world which someone has aptly called a … and wish is that this conference might help to contribute in bringing sanity to this mad world of ours which is …

… ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leaders to another location. In coming up with the decision, the NDC has also considered … Luthuli House – despite adverse implications on businesses in the Johannesburg CBD. The hearing resumes on Sunday, 11 …