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The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo
Directive of the Central Committee of the SACP to all member, units and other structures on security measures to be taken
Confidential directive from the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) on security measures to be observed in time of counter-offensive…
Directive of the Central Committee of the SACP to all member, units and other structures on security measures to be taken
Confidential directive from the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP) on security measures to be observed in time of counter-offensive…
Three South Africans are sentenced to twenty-three years of prison in Angola because they assisted Unita rebels with their aero
The two Voortrekker states, one east of the Drakensberg and one west, unite to form the Republic of Natalia. Practical diffic
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha warns Unita leader Jonas Savimbi in Angola that South Africa will withdraw support for Un
Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha warns Unita leader Jonas Savimbi in Angola that South Africa will withdraw support for Un
Louis le Grange states that the South African Defence Force units will be deployed increasingly in a supportive role to the pol
It is officially announced that the British and South African naval units will engage in a month of joint manoeuvres in South A
President Nelson Mandela says that in order to promote national unity he was willing to bring into government those who remain
In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con
Deputy President F.W. de Klerk announces that the National Party is to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 3
Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o
The SA Corps of Military Police (S.A.C.M.P.) is formed as an independent unit under Lt.-Col. R.D. Pilkington-Jordan.
Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, accused of political
General Ronnie van der Westhuizen, head of the South African special investigations unit on political violence, says that twent
Anglo-Boer War 2: Fifteen members of the notorious special British unit called the Bushveld Carbineers send a petition to Colon
A SADF unit is ambushed at the Cabinda oil refinery in Angola and Capt. Wynand du Toit is taken captive.
Cecil John Rhodes’ will bequests £6 million to fund scholarships to Oxford University for citizens of the British Empire, Unit
Child sex-slaves are freed. Superintendent Andre Neethling, head of the child protection unit in Gauteng, announces police have
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He…
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' High School,[1][2] matriculating at the age of 17.[3] …
BiographyNokuthula Orela Simelane
Nokuthula Orela Simelane was born in 1960 in Mzinoni Township near Bethal in Mpumalanga. She was the first of two daughters (Nokuthula and Thembisile) of…
BiographyProfessor Raymond Suttner
Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg…
Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al
The government announces that units from the army and air force, as well as extra police, will be stationed in Johannesburg in
The UN Security Council bans sales of arms and fuel to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) because
BiographyRaymond Francis (Ray) Budd
Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd was born on 9 June 1910 in Mowbray, Cape Town. He was the only child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from England…