This Day in History

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

Nelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC

Nelson Mandela is free

Walter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years

Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign

Upington 14 are sentenced

The Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed

South Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa

The Trust Feed Massacre

A consumer boycott is called in Boksburg

The “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions

SA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord

Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris

Alan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies

Malebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana

Chris Heunis meets Enos Mabuza of KaNgwane

Botshabelo forced into Qwa Qwa

Chris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK

Eric Mntonga is found dead

A police mob attacks big SWAPO rally

Alleged Mk members are killed

Jean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.

US House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa

ANC, COSATU and SACTU issues a joint statement in Lusaka