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EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… was appointed as a minister of Defence in President Nelson Mandela's Cabinet. He later became minister of Water Affairs …
EventSA Olympic team leaves for Barcelona
… single country boycotting the events. On 25th July, Nelson Mandela attended the opening ceremony at Barcelona to witness …
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… road to full democracy. In February,1990, he freed Nelson Mandela and unbanned the African National Congress (ANC) and …
EventMbeki unveils Women’s Monument at Union Buildings
… a march to the Union Buildings led by Ms Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the veterans of the 1956 march. The monument was …
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… Donnybrook. Hours before the massacre, former President Mandela had opened the ANC's campaign for local government …
EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… dating back to the 1913 Land Act, was passed by Nelson Mandela and signed into law. The Act provided for the …
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… in 1952 in which he was the first, together with Nelson Mandela, to court imprisonment. Banned and restricted, he … Lutuli, Moses Kotane, J. B. Marks, Bram…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… the defence team in the Treason Trial, in which President Mandela was one of the accused. Bram's view was well … trials and I was known to the accused…
Memorial service of photojournalist Juda Ngwenya by Cyril Ramaphosa, Rhema Church, Randburg, 26 October 2016
… to capture the joys and dreams of a nation when Nelson Mandela returned home in Soweto after 27 years of incarceration. He was there at Ohlange to…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… having been regular three-way communication between Nelson Mandela in his cell at Pollsmoor Prison and the ANC … a member of the ANC's national executive…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… the infamous Rivonia Trial of 1963-'64, in which Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress … in drafting an interim Constitution. In…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… the NP leader responsible for the first contact with Mandela, publicly renounced the talks as 'unacceptable'. Even … One of the reasons for the delay was…
EventSouth Africa's first multiracial elections start
… Freedom Party (IFP) shared the executive power. Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president of …
EventThe government launches 'Operation Iron Fist' in townships
… violence in Transvaal, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held a series of meetings to discuss means of …
ANC statement on the outcome of the officials meeting held at Luthuli House, 18 February 2002
… was graced by the presence of former President Nelson Mandela, an ex - officio member of this committee. The …
ArchiveKwaZakele - the politics of transition in South Africa: an Eastern Cape study
… African community of Kwazakele, a township in the Nelson Mandela metropolitan area in the Eastern Cape province of …
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… all taken to B Section where their leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Elias Motsoaledi and Walter Sisulu among others were …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… Ciskei. At a later news conference, ANC president Nelson Mandela indicates that his organisation will not insist on …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) in 1944 with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, and was elected as the …
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… Seven years after freeing Nelson Mandela and other political prisoners, F.W. de Klerk, former …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… to locate his grave. Once his grave was identified, Nelson Mandela called for the erection of a memorial to Sontonga on …
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… leader. Less than a month later ANC President, Nelson Mandela announced that he was suspending all talks with the …
EventWidespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal
… The announcement was made by former President, Nelson Mandela following a cabinet decision on 6 May 1996. The …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… September 1992. In his statement the ANC President, Nelson Mandela regarded the killings as nothing but an indictment on … [Accessed 04 August 2011]|O’Malley…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… The Donkin Heritage Trail booklet is sold at Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism's Donkin Reserve Information Office. …
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… leaf and became a centre for change when President Nelson Mandela was inaugurated at the Union Buildings in 1994. The …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… admitted to the bar. He became chairman of the Release Mandela Committee (RMC) in 1979. He was founding member of …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… Goldberg (1985), Govan Mbeki (5 November 1987) and Nelson Mandela (11 February 1990). They were arrested on 11 July …
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… The body also demanded the unconditional release of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the banned African National …
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… shifts which did not materialize was the release of Nelson Mandela. P. W. Botha disappointed his western allies by …