Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela salutes supporters while addressing on September 05, 1990 in Tokoza a crowd of residents from the Phola park squatter camp during his tour of townships. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country’s first black president IN 1994. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa’s white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. AFP PHOTO TREVOR SAMSON (Photo by TREVOR SAMSON / AFP)
On This Day: What happened on 10 May?
We look back on this day in history and remember the people and events that shaped the world we live in today. Every day is worth remembering.
Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela salutes supporters while addressing on September 05, 1990 in Tokoza a crowd of residents from the Phola park squatter camp during his tour of townships. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years as a political prisoner in South Africa before becoming the country’s first black president IN 1994. Mandela was a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), which opposed South Africa’s white minority government and its policy of racial separation, known as apartheid. AFP PHOTO TREVOR SAMSON (Photo by TREVOR SAMSON / AFP)
Here’s a look at what happened on this day, 10 May, throughout history. We remember the news, events, and people that influenced the course of history forever.
1994 | Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as the first black president in South Africa.
1995 | An elevator accident in Orkney, in the Northwest Province caused the deaths of more than 100 miners.
2016 | ANC general meeting in Hammanskraal ended in chaos with one man shot and Maratola Primary School vandalised.
2017 | SABC wanted the Broadcasting Act changed for people to also pay TV licence for computers, cellphones, tablets.
2018 | One man died and two seriously injured when they were attacked in a mosque in Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal.
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DEATHS
2018 | Zimbabwean field hockey player, Liz Chase (68)
2018 | South African cricket player, Graham Bunyard (78)
2019 | South African vexillographer, designed the South African & Namibian flag, Frederick Brownell (79)
BIRTHDAYS
1954 | South African Minister of Human Settlement, Lindiwe Sisulu
1955 | South African writer, Mbongeni Ngema
1956 | South African bassist, Bakithi Kumalo
SPORT
2016 | Boitumelo Charlotte Maila from Limpopo became the first woman from the province to cross the Pacific Ocean in the world’s longest ocean race.
ENTERTAINMENT
2011 | Christina Perri debut studio album, “Lovestrong” is released.
2018 | Spotify removes R. Kelly’s songs after sexual abuse allegations.
2019 | Rihanna becomes the first black woman to Launch a brand (Fenty) with LVMH.
AFRICA FACT
There are more fish species in Lake Malawi than any other freshwater system on earth.
