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… According to press reports, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) accused the ANC of being "guilty of deceit and dup …

… Dr John Daniël Kestell (Vader Kestell), moderator of the DRC synod, editor of Die Kerkbode, and rector of Grey University Coll …

… Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac …

… The Committee of Artists of the World against Apartheid is established in Paris with the support of the Special Committee again …

… Speaking at the installation of Prince Goodwill Zwelithini as Paramount Chief of the Zulu nation in Nongoma, the Minister of Ba …

… Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for October 1993, P 38560. … Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel announces the formation of a new police unit, which would have specific task of stabilis …

… Oliver Tambo, who arrived in Moscow at head of a delegation of ANC, meets Michael Gorbachev, General Secretary of the CPSU Cent …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Swaziland and Lesotho take steps to clear themselves of suspicion of allowing insurgents of the ANC to use their territory as s …

… The president of the general assembly announces the repeal of the oil embargo against South Africa in view of the installation …

… Lady Ann Barnard, author of descriptions of early Cape life and wife of Colonial Secretary Andrew Barnard, is born in Scotland. …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (later …

… Wilhelmina ten Damme, wife of Governor Hendrik Swellengrebel, dies at the age of forty. Swellendam was named in honour of them. …

… Police announce the release of the last of the 113 detainees held under Section 10 (preventive detention) of the Internal Secur …

… Rev Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa since 1975 and SA minister of sport and recrea …

… American troops are pulled out of Somalia following a series of gun battles with Somali troops under the command of General Moh …

… | Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 166. | … In the Battle of Blood River, a Voortrekker commando of 470 men, under leadership of Andries Pretorius, is …

… Former editor and publisher of Drum magazine, Jim Bailey, receives the award of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his c …

… According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the …

… US officials announce the arrests of three members of Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu rebel movement for the 1999 murders of two American …

… Jonathan Ayliff resigns because of ill health as minister of colonial affairs from the cabinet of Thomas Upington, but plays an …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Alpheus Hamilton Zulu, bishop of Zululand and later president of the World Council of Churches (WCC), dies in Ulundi, …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 220. … Sir William Henry Beaumont, judge and private secretary of the administrator of Natal, is born in India.  He was chairman of t …

… SAP). Neither would members of the United Democratic Front or the African National … He said 'radicalism either to the left or to the right of the moderates is unacceptable to us in the police force'. South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989) Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , …

… The Minister of Manpower, Fanie Botha, the leader of the Conservative Party, Dr. Andries Treurnicht, and one of his senior lieu …

… Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid … The results of an informal poll amongst White sportsmen show that of 101 sportsmen questioned, seventy-nine were in favour of m …

… The government publishes the draft of the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill intended to remove most of the remaining rights of Africans …

… South Africa signs an agreement with the government of the Republic of Poland on the abolition of visa requirements for holders …

… Logeman (81), important role player in the founding of the library of the University of Cape Town, dies. …

… The first meeting of the League of Nations takes place in Paris, with Pres. Woodrow Wilson of the USA as chairman. …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Allan Hendrickse, leader of the Labour Party, replaces Carter Ebrahim as Minister of Education and Culture in the House of Repr …