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… soon after the Johannesburg High Court ordered the sheriff to auction the building. The order was issued after the cash-strapped party failed to pay a R25-million debt owed to former spooks who were roped in to help with the 2014 … Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017 …

… by Nelson Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing to you in the name of the African people of the Union of … social, sporting and cultural associations. It met to consider a matter as important for your future as it is for ours-the decision of the Union government to proclaim a Republic on 31st May. Neither your people nor …

… Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg. Here he announced his plan to launch the Constellation of Southern African States (CONSAS) as a programme to re-establish the regional dominance of the apartheid state and its partners in big business. Botha saw the need to wipe out what he termed a growing “Marxist threat” to the …

… African Unity (OAU), the Security Council convenes on 15 to 16 July to examine the issue …

… Procedure Act 56 of 1955 comes into effect. It was used to force journalists to reveal their sources …

… According to News 24, Britain grants self-government to the Orange River Colony on this date. Kruger gives the …

… President de Klerk’s proposal to open the ranks of the National Party to all South Africans is accepted by the fourth and final …

… released from prison by Gen. Louis Botha (who also saw to it that he received a farm to live …

… Thirty-one SA pilots participates in the air-lift to provide food and fuel to West Berlin. The operation continued for seven mo …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The ultimatum of the ZAR to Britain expires and the reply of the British government is delivered to the ZAR g …

… President Reagan’s decision not to impose sanctions on South Africa is overridden by Senate veto, 78 votes to 21, and the US in …

… Britain, the USA and the World Bank refuse aid to Pres. Gamal Abder Nasser to build the Aswan Dam in the Nile River. …

… The SA rugby team beats Australia 11-0 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-1 in the series, with the last test still to be played. …

… The UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions against Libya that had been in place for eleven years as a response to the 1988 …

… The death toll in the strife-torn Reef townships rises to 515 although relative calm had returned to all the major conflict are …

… The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999.   In 1994 a parliament of 400 …

… three-day stay-away (5-7 June) in SA’s labour history up to this time starts, because of Black opposition to the La …

… The Council of Policy resolves to settle Sheik Yusuf, brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape and came …

… Business Day reports that according to the UN joint agency on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, SA is home to 5,5-million people infected with …

… Paul Koroma, is sworn in as head of state and pledge to restore peace to the war-weary W …

… farmers from the Eastern Cape, who have crossed the border to Lesotho to search for stolen cattle, are shot and killed …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … The National Party loses its Edenvale, Johannesburg seat to the PFP, its first by-election defeat since it came to power in 194 …

… Nations (UN) imposes a mandatory ban on arms supplies to South Africa in an effort to force the country out of Namib …

… The incidence of new HIV infections appears to have stabilised for the first time in the 25-year history of Aids, according to …

… According to Nongqawuse’s prophecy to the Xhosa people, on this day the sun will rise and set …

… Zola Budd, noted SA athlete who emigrated to Britain in 1984 to take part in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, announces that …

… Libya hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over …

… George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna. …

… gather at Peddie in the presence of the Rev. John Ayliff to take the ‘Fingo Oath’, namely: To obey G …

… suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge …