Archive Day

Benni McCarthy of Bafana Bafana is bought for nearly R40 million

The TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers

The Du Preez brothers appear before Judge Faan Hanke in Bloemfontein High Court in connection with the murder of two soldiers

Jazz Musician, Basil ‘Manenberg’ Coetzee, dies

US President Bill Clinton arrives in Cape Town

UDF distances itself from Madikizela

TRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

NP demands apology from TRC

Tutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities

SA military integration is disputed

PW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC

Cyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General

The First Draft of the Constitution is published

Desmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson

Official inauguration of the Constitutional Court

King Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho

Restitution of Land Rights Act is signed

Angolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA

Hundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire

Malawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades

ANC dismisses proposals to postpone elections

Political violence claims 100 lives in KZN

South Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations

The NCCR is dissolved

Security Council examines violence in South Africa

AWB leader, Eugene Terreblanche is arrested

CODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg

The UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing

COSATU leads an anti-VAT strike

SA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

ANC calls for the dismissal of Adriaan Vlok and Magnus Malan

The United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved

Agreement to reincorporate Ciskei into South Africa is reached

Oupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt

Buthelezi and Mandela meet and call for cease-fire

Buthelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders

Adelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years

Inkatha becomes a political party

Further chaos in Liberian civil war

A curfew is lifted in Venda