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… activists, Mohammed Valhi Moasa, Murphy Moroke, and Vusi Khanyile, escape from detention and seek …

… Nicholaas (Nicolaas) Waterboer, Griqua chief of Griquatown and eldest son of Andries Waterboer and his wife Gertruida Pienaar, …

… Thomas Charles John Bain, road engineer and geologist and son of Andrew Bain, is born in Graaff-Reinet. …

… The Johannesburg and the Namibian Stock Exchanges sign an accord for the exchange of technology, skills and information. …

… Zingile Alfred Dingane, MEC for Finance, Expenditure and Economic Affairs, Free State Provincial Government and leader of sever …

… Latiff, lecturer, chair of Umgeni Water, Pietermaritzburg and member of several boards and associations, is born …

… Kwame Nkrumah, who became first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is imprisoned and becomes a national hero. …

… South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission grants amnesty to apartheid death squad commander Eugene de Kock and other f …

… The Commission, headed by S.L. Muller and appointed to study political interference and representation of population groups, pu …

… Ray Alexander Simons, Interviewed by Steven Robins and Immanuel Suttner, 20 July 1993 and January 1996, Cape Town …

… Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary in Basutoland (Lesotho) and compiler of a Sotho-English glossary which he expanded and still …

… Indian Passive Resistance campaign led by Y. M. Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Represen …

… Three British mercenaries, Andrew McKenzie, John Barker and Costas Georgiou and an American, Daniel Gearhert, are sentenced to …

… Bhekuyise Alfred Langa, deputy chief operating officer and managing executive of the Customer Service and Sales department of T …

… SA signs agreement with Venda concerning formal school and Technical College instructional programmes and the performance by th …

… Olof Martini Bergh (63), secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, dies in Cape Town. …

… Four historically divided and entirely separate bodies unite and form the South African Football Association, marking the …

… The Weights and Measures Bill, providing for the metrification of weights and measures, thereby introducing the metric system, …

… Maruping Sebastian Bonokwane, trade unionist and MEC for Economic Affairs and Tourism in the Northern Cape Provincial governmen …

… Prof. Geof Cronjé, promoter of stage productions in SA and chairman of various councils and committees, is born. …

… Masekela, SA artist, Chief Health Inspector in Alexandra and later health inspector in Germiston and Sharpeville, …

… Storms create havoc in the Eastern Cape, especially Umtata, and unleash tornados, hailstorms, rain squalls and lightning which …

… Council unveils South Africa’s new "interim" national flag and says Die Stem and Nkosi Sik …

… court in Krugersdorp, killing two army members and a civilian, and injuring twen …

… Sir Joseph Banks, zoologist and botanist, describes the Kompanjiestuin and small zoo at the Cape in his diary. …

… secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, MP for Fauresmith and Ladybrand, and twice …

… Susan Shabangu, SA Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy and member of the ANC Steering Committee, is born. …

… Hjalmar Reitz, eldest son of Pres. F.W. Reitz and MP for Brits and Jeppe, is born in Bloemfontein. …

… co-founder of the South African Women’s Federation and the Langlaagte Orphanage and membe …

… Minister of Manpower and Public Works, Pietie du Plessis, resigns over a financial scandal involving his department and a compa …