A look at South Africa’s political history in the millenium.
2001 – Fiery United Nations race conference in South Africa.
2002 – Concourt orders government to provide anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment at all public hospitals.
2004 – Thabo Mbeki’s second term as President.
2005 – Start of violent protests against poor service delivery.
2006 – SA becomes the first African country and fifth in the world, to allow same-sex unions.
2008 – Xenophobic violence.
2009 – Jacob Zuma becomes President.
2010 – SA hosted the first every Fifa World Cup on African soil.
2011 – Ficksburg teacher Andries Tatane is fatally shot by police in a service delivery protest, no one is found accountable for his death.
2012 – More than 40 protesting miners, including police and Lonmin security guards, are killed in Marikana.
2013 – SA’s first democratically elected President, iconic Nelson Mandela dies.
2014 – After a two-year investigation, Pubic Protector Thuli Madonsela released her report into security upgrades at President Zuma’s Nkandla homestead, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) is expelled from the Congress of South African Trade Unions Cosatu.
2015 – Cosatu Secretary-General, Zwelinzima Vavi, is expelled from Cosatu. SA’s SABC reporter Sherwin Bryce-Pease gets a bronze medal for his work as a world human rights journalist.
Apartheid statues are targeted. Xenophobic attacks resurface in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.
Philani Hadebe is a freelance journalist who majored in Political Science.
