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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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Buthelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
30 September 2019
Mangosuthu Buthelezi refused to attend a meeting organised by the African National Congress (ANC) and other five homelan...
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Buthelezi and Mandela meet and call for cease-fire
30 September 2019
On 29 January 1991 a summit meeting was held in Durban between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freed...
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Oupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt
30 September 2019
Oupa Gqozo, the military leader of Ciskei foiled several coup attempts during his rule. In the early 1990's Colonel Onwa...
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Agreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached
30 September 2019
The Ciskei government under the military ruler Brig. Oupa Gqozo signed an agreement with the South African government, r...
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ANC calls for the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok and Magnus Malan
30 September 2019
The African National Congress (ANC), in an emergency meeting, called for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan...
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The United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
30 September 2019
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was formed in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements,...
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SA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
30 September 2019
South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. She was the first woman in 25 years to be ...
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COSATU leads an anti-VAT strike
30 September 2019
The Congress Of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called a two-day nation-wide strike to demonstrate their opposition ...
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CODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
30 September 2019
Twenty years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of South Africa, described by many as tension-driven...
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The UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing
30 September 2019
On 21 December 1988, the Pan Am Flight 103 was flying its transatlantic route from New York to London, when it was destr...
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AWB leader, Eugene Terreblanche is arrested
30 September 2019
The leader of the right-wing political organisation, Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Eugene Terre'Blanche, and nine ...
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South Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
30 September 2019
On 25 October 1993, South Africa was invited to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations with effect from January 1994. The m...
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Malawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
30 September 2019
Present day Malawi became the British colony of Nyasaland in 1890, after aggressive diplomatic conflict with Germany. In...
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Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
30 September 2019
Between April and mid July 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Rwanda's Hutu ...
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King Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
30 September 2019
On 25 January 1995, King Moshoeshoe II was formally reinstated as King of Lesotho. Moshoeshoe had a turbulent reign over...
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Official inauguration of the Constitutional Court
30 September 2019
The Constitutional Court, with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson as president, was formally opened by President Nelson Man...
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Desmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
30 September 2019
Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose t...
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The First Draft of the Constitution is published
30 September 2019
In January 1995 an advertising campaign was launched to elicit public views on what should be in the Constitution. On 19...
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Cyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General
30 September 2019
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that he was resigning as African National Congress Secretary-General, as well as from...
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PW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
30 September 2019
Former President P. W. Botha declared that he would never testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). ...
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SA military integration is disputed
30 September 2019
The transition in the South African Defence Force (later SANDF) was not achieved without difficulties. It came to the su...
Event
NP demands apology from TRC
30 September 2019
In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), lawyers for the National Party (NP) demand an unconditiona...
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TRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
30 September 2019
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began public hearings, which focused on allegations against Winnie Madikizela-...
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UDF distances itself from Madikizela
30 September 2019
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard from the leading members of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Frank...
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US President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town
30 September 2019
The first American president to visit SA with his wife, President Bill Clinton, arrived with his wife Hillary at the Cap...
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Jazz Musician, Basil ‘Manenberg’ Coetzee, dies
30 September 2019
Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also known as Dollar Brand...
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The Du Preez brothers appear before Judge Faan Hanke in Bloemfontein High Court in connection with the murder of two soldiers
30 September 2019
Two brothers, Hendrik and Petrus du Preez appeared before Judge Faan Hanke in Bloemfontein High Court in connection with...
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The TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
30 September 2019
The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) refused amnesty to Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-L...
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Benni McCarthy of Bafana Bafana is bought for nearly R40 million
30 September 2019
Benedict Saul (Benni) McCarthy of Bafana Bafana, accepted a contract of R38, 5 million to play for the Spanish club Real...
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Tsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies
30 September 2019
Dimitri Tsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, died at the age of 81 at the St...
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Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
30 September 2019
On 14 October 1999, the first president and father of Tanzanian independence Julius Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia ag...
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J.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
30 September 2019
John Maxwell Coetzee is a well-known South African author. After completing a degree in English and Mathematics, he went...
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Clampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins
30 September 2019
Representatives of the diamond industry and government, from more than thirty countries agree to certify all legitimate ...
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Africa Women’s Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
30 September 2019
The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was re...
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Court approves same-sex couple's right to marry
30 September 2019
In October 2002, Marie Fourie and her partner of twelve years, Cecelia Bonthuys had been refused the right to marry on t...
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Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s advice is criticised
30 September 2019
The Sunday newspaper Sunday Independent reported that the special mixture prescribed by SA Health Minister Dr Manto Tsha...
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Magnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
30 September 2019
Former Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and General Constand Viljoen, former commander of the South African Defence Forc...
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Soccer coach Pitso Mosimane is fined R50 000
30 September 2019
SuperSport United coach Pitso Mosimane was fined R50 000 at a Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary hearing. This fol...
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UN spokesman comments on Mugabe’s eviction campaign
30 September 2019
Miloon Kothari, a United Nations (UN) housing expert, said most of those displaced by President Robert Mugabe's May 2005...
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