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… The final report by Justice Snyman on the Paarl Riots is submitted to Parliament. It analyses the main causes of the riots. …

… Despite discussions with the SA Rugby Board, the ANC asks the International Rugby Board to prohibit a SA tour of the …

… The reigning Tri-Nations champions, the Springboks, beats out France for the team-of-the year award. Jake White is named coach …

… The Belvedere arrives in the Durban harbour with 318 Indian labourers, the second group to arrive to work on the sugar plantati …

… Andries Pretorius arrives at the Voortrekker laagers on the banks of the Klein-Tugela in reply to a plea for help against the Z …

… Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid … The conference of the ANC rejects the Bantu Authorities Act, which, it is stated, was intended …

… The German gunboat, the Kingani, is captured by the British on Lake Tanganyika. It is removed by portage through the jungle of …

… The South African Police takes over the tasks of the German South-West African police. 423 members of the disbanded police forc …

… Following the elections, ten new senators are chosen and appointed by the Prime Minister, on the same day that the electoral co …

… The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft …

… The farm Lang Leegte (of which the suburb Langlaagte now forms part) where the first gold was discovered, is registered in the …

… Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al …

… First meeting of the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa (later re …

… The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft …

… The farm Lang Leegte (of which the suburb Langlaagte now forms part) where the first gold was discovered, is registered in the …

… The South African Defence Force has taken over from the police the security of Northern Natal since the area is becoming a …

… The first part of the South African Press Commission’s first report is tabled in parliament by the minister of the interior, Ja …

… The Xhosa musical, uCarmen in Khayelitsha, wins the Golden Bear award as the best film at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany. …

… The minutes of for the meeting where the South African team to participate in the Olympic Games in 1908 was decided on …

… The appointment of the group of experts to examine the problem of apartheid, in terms of the United Nations Security Council re …

… The British consul presents a White Paper on the atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian …

… Zulu king Dingane cedes "the place called Port Natal together with all the land annexed from the sea to the north" to …

… The Department of Bantu Development is planning for the consolidation of the ‘homelands’ by buying land in terms of the 1936 …

… Only a few hours before the expiry of the deadline for the production of the final document, and after a period of …

… The ships the ‘Walvis’ and the ‘Oliphant’, which were loaded too heavy to sail from the Netherlands with Jan van Riebeeck’s oth …

… A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service issues the first weather forecast for the Union as a whole from the branch office in C …

… The Rajab brothers opens their second cinema, the Shiraz. The cinema was housed in the new Rajab Centre in Victoria …

… The International Court of Justice at The Hague hears the arguments of Ethiopia and Liberia in the South West …

… Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys the section of the farm Lang Leegte, on which the main gold reef of the Witwatersrand was di …

… The area Ohrigstad River in the Lydenburg district is proclaimed as a public gold field after the discovery of gold in the Sela …