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    The 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis was a major political crisis which began after Lucas Mangope, the president of Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent South...
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    Bophuthatswana (/ˌboʊpuːtətˈswɑːnə/, lit. 'gathering of the Tswana people'), officially the Republic of Bophuthatswana (Tswana: Repaboleki ya Bophuthatswana;...
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    March 1994, Viljoen led an effort by several thousand Volksfront militia to protect the bantustan president, Lucas Mangope, in Bophuthatswana against...
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    The Status of Bophuthatswana Act, 1977, the Status of Venda Act, 1979, and the Status of Ciskei Act, 1981, similarly declared Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei...
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    CODESA Assassination of Chris Hani Saint James Church massacre 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis Shell House massacre Organisations ANC APLA IFP AWB BBB Black...
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    South African rand devalued fast, and the government was plunged into a crisis. The African National Congress printed and distributed leaflets with the...
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    1993–2005 Burundian Civil War 1993–1994 Republic of the Congo Civil War 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis 1994–1999 Caprivi conflict 1994–2018 Insurgency in Ogaden 1995–2018...
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    objection to the ANC–NP consensus on the date of the 1994 election. The Ciskei and Bophuthatswana governments continued to participate in the forum until...
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    incited his supporters to commit gross violations of human rights". In the 1994 elections, Gwala was elected to the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, where he served...
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    CODESA Assassination of Chris Hani Saint James Church massacre 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis Shell House massacre Organisations ANC APLA IFP AWB BBB Black...
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    defend the dictatorial government of Lucas Mangope in the homeland of Bophuthatswana. The AWB, along with a contingent of about 90 Afrikaner Volksfront militiamen...
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  • predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's politics as well as the country's commercial...
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    Africa". Violence persisted right up to the 1994 general election. Lucas Mangope, leader of the Bophuthatswana homeland, declared that it would not take...
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    (ANC) has been the governing party of the Republic of South Africa since 1994. The ANC was founded on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein and is the oldest...
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    CODESA Assassination of Chris Hani Saint James Church massacre 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis Shell House massacre Organisations ANC APLA IFP AWB BBB Black...
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    About 85% of Kliptown comprises informal housing. The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee argues that Soweto's poor are unable to pay for electricity. The...
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    non-white political representation, the Soweto Riots and the Steve Biko crisis. He conducted a more pragmatic foreign policy than his predecessors, in...
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    African Communist Party; armed AWB commandos participated in the crisis in Bophuthatswana in 1994. Terre'Blanche spent three years in a Rooigrond prison for...
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    housing units, the area was left undeveloped. Since the fall of apartheid in 1994, the South African government has recognised the older claims of former residents...
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    Bantustan (category 1994 disestablishments in South Africa)
    Mangope and to contest the termination of Bophuthatswana as a homeland in 1994. He founded the Freedom Front in 1994. Lucas Mangope, former chief of the Motsweda...
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    South Africa's first racially inclusive democratic elections on 27 April 1994. In a statement on the death of Botha in 2006, De Klerk said: "Personally...
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    soon agreed that the democratic elections should take place on 27 April 1994, just over a year after Hani's assassination. In October 1993, both Janusz...
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    CODESA Assassination of Chris Hani Saint James Church massacre 1994 Bophuthatswana crisis Shell House massacre Organisations ANC APLA IFP AWB BBB Black...
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    within South African political and social life came to a climax with the 1948-1994 rule of the white supremacist National Party and its policy of apartheid...
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    Hendricks, Fred. 2003. "Fault-Lines in South African Democracy: Continuing Crisis of Inequality and Injustice." Kentridge, William. "Director's Note". In...
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    South Africa's first multiracial elections under a universal franchise in 1994. Apartheid was adopted as a formal South African government policy by the...
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    associated with them. Some old townships have seen rapid development since 1994, with, for instance, wealthy and middle-income areas sprouting in parts of...
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    every police station. In 1995, the force absorbed the police forces of Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Gazankulu, KaNgwane, KwaNdebele. KwaZulu, Lebowa, QwaQwa, Transkei...
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