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… Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape …

… John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, who was born in Cairo and came with his paren …

… Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever, journalist and author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, is born on the …

… Stephen Vukile (Steve) Tshwete, former minister of Sport and Recreation and from 1999 up to his death in 2002 minister of Safet …

… Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) …

… Burchell arrives in England from an expedition to SA and St Helena, with 60 000 natural-historical samples and 500 …

… Helen Beatrice May Joseph, SA political and human rights activist, dies in Johannesburg. She came to SA in 1931 and, with Lilia …

… Lt Tommy Rose covers the distance between South Africa and England in six days, six hours and fifty-seven minutes in a record f …

… navigator Vasco da Gama, on board the Saint Gabriel, and tasked with finding a sea route to India and the Orient, dr …

… Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home …

… Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home …

… Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African …

… George Rex, allegedly the son of King George III and Hannah Lightfoot, auctions his house in Cape Town and settles at Melkhoutk …

… Anglo-Boer War 1: The British forces are defeated and 83 British soldiers under Sir George Colley are killed and 111 wounded in …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Ben Viljoen and seven men are ambushed and captured by the British.   His pocket book saves his life …

… The Prime Ministers of South Africa and Rhodesia meet in Cape Town for talks on the Rhodesian problem and the possibilities for …

… The Rev. Andrew Murray, DRC minister and educationalist, and second son of Andrew Murray sr. (1794-1866), is born in …

… Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern …

… arrives in England after her record flight of twelve days and fifteen hours from London to Cape Town and back. …

… UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar …

… where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million …

… acting governor of the Cape who supervised the arrival and settling of the British Settlers and who fou …

… Zimbabwe? The Great Zimbabwe ruins date from the Iron Age and lie between the Limpopo and Zambezi Rivers in the Limpopo … researchers think the environment changed and that the gold trade in the region declined, but it could also be that gold resources, water and usable land became scarce and that …

… Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in the night of 31 May/1 … with Republic Day. Nobody is killed in the attacks and the only casualty is a security guard at Sasol I who … Attacks on Sasol 1 and NATREF in Sasolburg and Sasol 2 in Secunda take place in …

… force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. Biko and his peers were responding to developments that emerged in … went about untangling what little pockets of integration and proximity there were between White, Black, Coloured and … (BCP), in January 1972. Bennie Khoapa , a social worker at the YMCA, was elected to drive the organisation. …

… of continuing evidence of Vusamuzulu Pumelelo Credo Mtetwa and evidence from Langa Daniel Skosana and Fanyana Lawrence Shiburi, both reporters from The Star … to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa, … Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 23 September 1976, …

… a meeting between delegations from South Africa, Namibia and United Nations for discussions concerning Namibia and the region. Two versions of these Minutes exist. … Minutes of the meetings between a South African delegation and the Secretary-General of the United Nations: Cape Town, …

… a meeting between delegations from South Africa, Namibia and United Nations for discussions concerning Namibia and the region. Two versions of these Minutes exist. … Minutes of the meetings between a South African delegation and the Secretary-General of the United Nations: Cape Town, …

… South African Foreign Affairs Miinister, R F (Pik) Botha and the American Ambassador, Herman Nickel, to discuss the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and the situation in Mozambique. … between the Hon. R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information and Ambassador Herman Nickel of the United …

… Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, Annual Conference …