June 1895
Profession
Returns to South Africa to practise law at Cape Town bar
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Cape Town in South Africa. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Returns to South Africa to practise law at Cape Town bar
Rejects external pressure to dismantle the apartheid system.
Receives Harold Macmillan's Wind of Change speech before Parliament.
Uses mass voluntary arrest to challenge the pass system.
Leads Langa residents to surrender themselves for arrest.
50,000 demonstrate against the pass laws in the township of Langa
50,000 demonstrate against the pass laws in the township of Langa
Leads tens of thousands from Langa toward central Cape Town.
Persuades the huge crowd to disperse peacefully after negotiations.
Death of Hendrik Verwoerd
Performs the 1st heart transplant in Cape Town, his patient lives for 18 days
Performs the 1st heart transplant in Cape Town, his patient lives for 18 days
Gives a Cape Town dentist a heart that lasts for 19 months
There are 26 deaths after demonstrations
Becomes leader of the House of Assembly.
Strengthens his position among senior National Party politicians.
Takes control of the governing party during the Information Scandal.
Becomes leader of the National Party alongside the premiership.
Defeats rival candidates during the National Party leadership contest.
Is elected prime minister after John Vorster resigns.
Leaves Robben Island after eighteen years of imprisonment.
Is transferred from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison.
Black South Africans remain excluded from national parliamentary representation.
The new tricameral constitutional system comes into force.
Is elected South Africa's first executive state president.
The premiership is abolished under the new constitution.
Offers Nelson Mandela release if he renounces political violence.
Mandela rejects the condition in a statement read publicly.
Insists that political rights must precede meaningful personal freedom.
Rejects an offer of freedom conditional on renouncing violence.
Is admitted to hospital for prostate surgery.
Returns to Pollsmoor later in November after treatment.
Is hospitalised and diagnosed with tuberculosis.
Receives treatment during a serious decline in prison health.
Temporarily steps back from presidential duties during recovery.
Suffers a stroke that weakens his political position.
F W de Klerk subsequently succeeds him as party leader.
Resigns as National Party leader after his stroke.
Released from the Victor Verster prison after 27 years
Meets imprisoned Nelson Mandela at Tuynhuys.
The meeting signals growing contact between government and Mandela.
Announces that South Africa built and subsequently dismantled six completed nuclear weapons and a seventh incomplete device.
Is elected president by South Africa new National Assembly.
Becomes the first president chosen after universal suffrage.
Provenance
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