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Zimbabawean Independence Day
30 September 2019
Zimbabwe Independence Day On this day in 1980, Southern-Rhodesia gained independence from the British, taking the name ...
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Indian students join the Coloured schools boycott
30 September 2019
The Coloured schools' boycott began as a result of students' dissatisfaction with the South African educational and poli...
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P.W. Botha proposes a 'Constellation of States'
30 September 2019
During the National Party rally in Ladysmith, Natal, Prime Minister P.W. Botha assured his party supporters that the pro...
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SA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
30 September 2019
Several people were killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the planning and control headqua...
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Ciskei is granted ‘independence’
30 September 2019
Ciskei becomes the fourth Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe...
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Swaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
30 September 2019
The Swaziland government welcomed South Africa's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, i...
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Three ANC members are sentenced to death
30 September 2019
Three African National Congress members, Telle Simon Mogoerane, Jerry Semano Mosololi, and Marcus Thabo Motaung, were se...
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Political Activist, Barbara Hogan, is sentenced for High Treason
30 September 2019
Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership...
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ANC mounts a sabotage attack on fuel depot in Ermelo
30 September 2019
The eighties in South Africa heralded a time of increased resistance against the Apartheid regime. The liberation moveme...
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South Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
30 September 2019
President Samora Machel of Mozambique and Prime Minister PW Botha of South Africa signed the Nkomati Accord, a non-aggre...
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Dorothy Nyembe is released from jail
30 September 2019
Dorothy Nyembe, a prominent political activist in KwaZulu-Natal who participated in many political demonstrations agains...
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Tricameral Parliament inaugurated
30 September 2019
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a t...
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
30 September 2019
Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary Gener...
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US Senator Edward Kennedy visits SA
30 September 2019
In January, Senator Edward Kennedy of the United States visited South Africa to show his anti-apartheid support to the S...
Event
British pop star, David Essex, claims to have been quoted out-of-context regarding his return to perform in South Africa.
30 September 2019
British pop star, David Essex, claims he is quoted out-of-context about his return to South Africa to perform to a racia...
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PW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
30 September 2019
On the night of 15 August 1985, South Africa's President P. W. Botha delivered the infamous "Rubicon" Speech in Durban. ...
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Frontline states call on RSA government to release Mandela and end Apartheid
30 September 2019
The six frontline states of Angola , Botswana , Mozambique , Tanzania , Zambia and Zimbabwe called on the South African...
Event
Murder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
30 September 2019
The trial of Reginald Sefatsa, Reid Mokoena, Moses Diniso, Theresa Ramashamole, Duma Khumalo and Francis Mokhesi, better...
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Tutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
30 September 2019
Bishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa of the Catholic Church, held a morning-to-su...
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A military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
30 September 2019
On 15 January 1986, General Justin Lekhanya, the Head of the Lesotho Army, ousted Lesotho prime minister Chief Leabua Jo...
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ANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka
30 September 2019
The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the African ...
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Alleged Mk members are killed
30 September 2019
The South African Police (SAP) and the South African Defence Force (SADF) ambushed and killed six alleged Umkhonto weSiz...
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Jean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
30 September 2019
Jean Van der Poel was a historian and teacher who played an important role in the South African Teachers' Association an...
Event
A police mob attacks big SWAPO rally
30 September 2019
This day in history, an armed mob and riot police disrupted a rally organised by the South West African Political Organi...
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Eric Mntonga is found dead
30 September 2019
The body of Eric Mntonga, co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) in the bord...
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Chris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
30 September 2019
Chris Hani, freedom fighter, political activist and at the time Deputy Commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Zambia, was...
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Botshabelo forced into Qwa Qwa
30 September 2019
Despite visible resistance to incorporation into the Qwa Qwa homeland, the South African government proceeded with its p...
Event
Chris Heunis meets Enos Mabuza of KaNgwane
30 September 2019
The Citizen newspaper reported that Minister Chris Heunis, minister of constitutional development and planning and Chief...
Event
Alan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
30 September 2019
Alan Paton is one of South Africa's most celebrated authors. His most renowned novel 'Cry, the Beloved Country', which w...
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Malebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
30 September 2019
A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the P...
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The “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
30 September 2019
On 11 July 1988, Duma Khumalo, Oupa "Scotch" Diniso, Ja-ja Sefatsa, Theresa Ramashamola, Francis Mokhesi and Reid Mokoen...
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A consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
30 September 2019
The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni mu...
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The Trust Feed Massacre
30 September 2019
An incident occurred in December 1988 which shocked the nation and forever changed the lives of the close-knit community...
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South Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
30 September 2019
The agreement was the culmination of months of intense diplomatic efforts brokered by the United States. South African P...
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The Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
30 September 2019
On 8 April 1989, the Progressive Federal Party, Independent Party, the National Democratic Movement and the Fourth Force...
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Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
30 September 2019
After the release of Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ahmed Kathrada of the Tran...
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Nelson Mandela is free
30 September 2019
On this day, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife Winnie...
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Nelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
30 September 2019
In 1990, at the opening of parliament, former state president F.W De Klerk made an unanticipated and startling statement...
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A curfew is lifted in Venda
30 September 2019
A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the unpopular Frank Ravhe...
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Adelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
30 September 2019
Adelaide Tambo became politically active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high schoo...
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