Adelaide Tambo became politically active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high schoo...
Mangosuthu Buthelezi refused to attend a meeting organised by the African National Congress (ANC) and other five homelan...
On 29 January 1991 a summit meeting was held in Durban between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freed...
Oupa Gqozo, the military leader of Ciskei foiled several coup attempts during his rule. In the early 1990's Colonel Onwa...
The Ciskei government under the military ruler Brig. Oupa Gqozo signed an agreement with the South African government, r...
The African National Congress (ANC), in an emergency meeting, called for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan...
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was formed in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements,...
South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature. She was the first woman in 25 years to be ...
The Congress Of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) called a two-day nation-wide strike to demonstrate their opposition ...
Twenty years ago, one of the most significant events in the history of South Africa, described by many as tension-driven...
On 21 December 1988, the Pan Am Flight 103 was flying its transatlantic route from New York to London, when it was destr...
The leader of the right-wing political organisation, Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), Eugene Terre'Blanche, and nine ...
On 25 October 1993, South Africa was invited to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations with effect from January 1994. The m...
Present day Malawi became the British colony of Nyasaland in 1890, after aggressive diplomatic conflict with Germany. In...
Between April and mid July 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Rwanda's Hutu ...
On 25 January 1995, King Moshoeshoe II was formally reinstated as King of Lesotho. Moshoeshoe had a turbulent reign over...
The Constitutional Court, with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson as president, was formally opened by President Nelson Man...
Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose t...
In January 1995 an advertising campaign was launched to elicit public views on what should be in the Constitution. On 19...
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that he was resigning as African National Congress Secretary-General, as well as from...
Former President P. W. Botha declared that he would never testify before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). ...
The transition in the South African Defence Force (later SANDF) was not achieved without difficulties. It came to the su...
In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), lawyers for the National Party (NP) demand an unconditiona...
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began public hearings, which focused on allegations against Winnie Madikizela-...
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard from the leading members of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Frank...
The first American president to visit SA with his wife, President Bill Clinton, arrived with his wife Hillary at the Cap...
Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also known as Dollar Brand...
Two brothers, Hendrik and Petrus du Preez appeared before Judge Faan Hanke in Bloemfontein High Court in connection with...
The Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) refused amnesty to Janusz Walus and Clive Derby-L...
Benedict Saul (Benni) McCarthy of Bafana Bafana, accepted a contract of R38, 5 million to play for the Spanish club Real...
Dimitri Tsafendas, murderer of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd in 1966, died at the age of 81 at the St...
On 14 October 1999, the first president and father of Tanzanian independence Julius Mwalimu Nyerere died of leukaemia ag...
John Maxwell Coetzee is a well-known South African author. After completing a degree in English and Mathematics, he went...
Representatives of the diamond industry and government, from more than thirty countries agree to certify all legitimate ...
The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was re...
In October 2002, Marie Fourie and her partner of twelve years, Cecelia Bonthuys had been refused the right to marry on t...
The Sunday newspaper Sunday Independent reported that the special mixture prescribed by SA Health Minister Dr Manto Tsha...
Former Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and General Constand Viljoen, former commander of the South African Defence Forc...
SuperSport United coach Pitso Mosimane was fined R50 000 at a Premier Soccer League (PSL) disciplinary hearing. This fol...
Miloon Kothari, a United Nations (UN) housing expert, said most of those displaced by President Robert Mugabe's May 2005...
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