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… Todd Tozama Matshikiza, SA musician, composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of the l …

… cricket test match (the only one ever) between SA and England starts in Durban and continues until the 14th.   E …

… statement of intent by President Mandela of South Africa and President Chissano of the Republic of Mozambique and the pre …

… During this and the next two days justice spokesmen for the opposition parties, Radclyffe Cadman for the United Party, and Hele …

… about the disappearance of the Waratah between Durban and Cape Town with 211 passengers and crew …

… co-operation in the areas of culture, education, science and related fields and …

… Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in …

… Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, …

… Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulating the right of any person t …

… Presidents Joaquim Chissano and Nelson Mandela sign an agreement to allow South African farmers to settle and farm land in Moza …

… WWII: A combined British military and naval force land on Madagascar and by the afternoon the town of Diego Suarez is captured. …

… The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the …

… A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M …

… A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl …

… Thousands of Africans, Indians and Coloured people demonstrate in major towns and take the pledge. Dr. Dadoo says this is the b …

… an ultimatum which includes demands for the firing of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f …

… Two White men are killed and twelve Africans injured in a clash between mine officials and miners outside the number one shaft …

… Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West …

… Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co …

… of Swaziland visits Cape Town for talks with John Vorster and confirms that a policy of friendship and coope …

… Mulder, in effect, accuses President Vorster of lying and states that the decision to found and finance ‘The Citizen …

… Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid | Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime … Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da …

… Jahleel Brenton, SA artist and marine officer after whom the islands Brenton and Jahleel were called, is born in Warwick, Engla …

… Haile Gebrselassie, long distance Ethiopian athlete and the first to run the 5 000 m in less than thirteen minutes and the 10 0 …

… Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes in “conflict situations” …

… Six Front Line States meet in Maputo and decide to coordinate further their military and economic policies to counter South Afr …

… van der Rijst (’Oom Willem’), activist for Afrikaans and author of the first Spelling and Reading book for Afrikaans …

… The guns and the explosions will speak even if the mass media is silent - and will be heard by the people …

… The two sides of the chiasm belong one to the white and the other to the black tradition, and are formed by four extremely important novels in the … Gertrude Millin, published in London in 1924 by Constable, and Turbott Wolfe by William Plomer, also published in …