The new drug regimen tested has shown a 90% success rate against a deadly plague, extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Countries: South Africa
South African parliament approves national minimum wage bill
South Africa’s parliament passed a national minimum wage bill by an overwhelming majority to tackle strikes and wage inequality.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions presses ahead with nationwide protest over ‘poverty-level’ minimum wage
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) will go ahead with its planned nationwide mass mobilisation of workers to protest against the proposed “poverty-level” national minimum wage of R20 an hour and amendments to labour laws
South African cabinet approves $1.43 an hour national minimum wage
Credit ratings agencies have said a minimum wage could help stabilise the labour market and reduce the number of costly strikes in Africa’s most industrialised economy.
South Africa adopts a new constitution, abolishing apartheid
Elections that year led to a coalition government with a nonwhite majority, marking the official end of the apartheid system.
Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa, is inaugurated
In his inaugural address, Mandela, who spent 27 years of his life as a political prisoner of the South African government, declared that the time for the healing of the wounds has come.
The United Democratic Front emerges in South Africa
The United Democratic Front was a major anti-apartheid organisation of the 1980s. The non-racial coalition of about 400 civic, church, students’, workers’ and other organisations was formed to fight the new Tricameral Parliament.
Cape Colony, the Natal Colony, the Transvaal, and the Orange River Colony unite to form the Union of South Africa
The Union of South Africa is the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. It included the territories that were formerly a part of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State.
The Kingdom of Mapungubwe thrives in modern-day South Africa
The Kingdom of Mapungubwe (c.1075–1220) was a medieval state in South Africa located at the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo rivers, south of Great Zimbabwe.
Early humans reach and settle South Africa for first time
Southern Africa was first reached by Homo sapiens before 130,000 years ago, possibly before 260,000 years ago.