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| 1948 | Ndebele is born in Shiyana, Rorkes Drift, near Dundee on October 17, grew up at Makhasenini near Melmoth; |
| 1967 - 1968 | Finishes matric at Eshowe Teacher Training and High School; |
| 1967 - 1968 | Completes standard ten and works at the archives of a Lutheran Church centre at Maphumulo; |
| 1970 - 1972 | Studies Library Science at the University of Zululand and becomes active in the University Christian Movement and later with the South African Students Organisation and is appointed Publications Director of SASO for the University of Zululand; |
| 1973 - 1974 | Works as an assistant librarian at the University of the North in Pietersburgand joins ANC underground; |
| 1974 - 1976 | Assistant Librarian at the University of Swaziland, and works closely with South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, ANC Deputy President, Jacob Zuma and former Gauteng Premier Toykyo Sexwale to establish the ANC inside South Africa from Swaziland; |
| 1976 - 1987 | Ndebele is arrested for ANC activities and is sentenced to ten years imprisonment on Robben Island, becomes prison librarian, completes a UNISA BA degree in International Politics and African Politics, and obtains a BA Honours degree with distinction in Development Administration and Politics, works on a Masters dissertion on "Non-Collaboration and the Politics of Participation" which was near completion by the time he was released from prison in June 1987 and becomes UDF activist; |
| 1987 - 1996 | Becomes UDF activist, involved in peace process forum, turns down a Politics lecturing post which was offered to him by the University of South Africa and works as Research Fellow at the University of Natal’s Department of Town and Regional Planning, and is involved in the Built Environment Support Group and his work focuses on challenges of black people in society, and is elected Regional Secretary of the ANC for Southern Natal, and kept the position unopposed until December 1996; |
| 1991 - 1994 | Works as Director of the Office of Residence Administration at the University of Durban – Westville, he is elected (at the first provincial conference of the ANC, opened by President Mandela in early December 1994), to the Provincial Executive Committee and the Provincial Working Committee of the ANC; |
| 1989 | Travels extensively, including a visit to Holland to present a paper of the Agrarian Question in South Africa. The following year he participated in a congress marking "Thirty Years of African Independence" in Moscow. |
| 1990 | Attends a seminar on "Research by Africans in South Africa" in Harare; |
| 1992 | Tours the USA, studying Regional and Local Government, Adult Education and Metropolitan Public Transport, visits Germany and Sweden with former ANC Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa to look at political party organization and its relationship with Government and writes papers on various aspects of South African History and Politics. |
| 1994 | Appointed Minister of Transport in KwaZulu-Natal; |
| 1996 | Elected Deputy Chairperson of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal; |
| 1997 | Re-elected onto the ANC’s National Executive Committee at the 50th National Conference in December; |
| 1998 | Elected chairperson of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal at the provincial conference in July; |
| 1999 | Leads ANC to form an unworkable coalition government with the IFP; |
| 2003 | Re-elected chairperson of KZN; |
| 2004 | President Thabo Mbeki declares Ndebele first ANC Premier for KwaZulu Natal. |
