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… The Congo state is established as a personal possession of Belgium’s King Leopold II. …

… Paul Kruger is sworn in as president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR.) …

… of civilians flee Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, as civil war rages. …

… announces that 400,000 Italians will be going to Ethiopia as settlers. …

… Prof. Elize Botha is appointed as new chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch. …

… Two ANC activists are killed as they try to put up election posters.  …

… Two ANC activists are killed as they try to put up election posters.  …

… Ebrahim Rasool is elected as chairman of the ANC in the Western Cape. …

… Slum clearance of the portion of Dassiekraal known as slum Case No. S. 577 …

… Children have rights as human beings and also need special care and protection …

… (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil and teenager. He obtained his … were the main source of potential funding. This critical factor is rarely appreciated in considerations of the … mirrored by those of the SANNC. For much of the 1910s, as the Union of South Africa leapt from one crisis to the …

… Mr Jacob Zuma on the occasion of his Inauguration as fourth President of the Republic of South Africa 09 May … a half ago, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was formally elected as the first President of a democratic South Africa. At that … Mbeki came to this very podium to take the oath of office, as the second President of the Republic. He took the country …

… of Bechuanaland – led to the signing of what became known as the Moffat Treaty on 11 February 1888. John Smith Moffat’s …

… in the country (which became Zimbabwe in 1980) to qualify as a lawyer, and co-founded Rhodesia’s African Bar … of Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe’s current ruling party, then known as the Zimbabwe African National Union. He was that party’s … from the University of South Africa. On Sithole’s last day as an independent man – 15 October 1975 – he visited the …

… manufactured in the De Beers workshop in Kimberley, known as 'Long Cecil' after Cecil John Rhodes, was test fired for … garrison. He extended an invitation to Lt-Col Chamier, as the senior gunner, to fire the first round. However, the … had turned down Rhodes' invitation on the ground that, as a member of the Royal Regiment, he was permitted to fire …

… parents died in the battles of the Waterkloof . [2] As a result she is believed to have been quite conscious and … and institutions by British colonial authorities from as early on as 1779 . [3] Lungsickness was widespread amongst … [24] Ibid, 369. ↵ [25] Helen Bradford, “Women, Gender and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the British Cape …

… work of Michael Foucault on the subject of imprisonment as well as the connection he makes between knowledge and power and … prison-literature between 1948 and 1990: the prisoner as writer and political commentator …

… Lisbon, but they were interrupted due to police harassment as a result of his political activities. The Portuguese … his studies in medicine, Savimbi would refer to himself as “Doctor” thereafter. At the urging of Kenyan nationalists  … in Portugal,  Savimbi, Holden Roberto, and Agostinho Neto, as leaders of the three main political movements in Angola, …

… have been visited by FOSATU organisers and shop stewards as the federation steps up its campaign to urge so-called … Don`t Vote: as elections creep nearer FOSATU goes door to door urging …

… marked the retirement of the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in … Archbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in …

… Egypt’s vice president Hosni Mubarak is nominated as successor to slain President Anwar Sadat. …

… Egypt’s vice president Hosni Mubarak is nominated as successor to slain President Anwar Sadat. …

… Africa, the Rhenish Missionary Church constitutes itself as the Evangelical Lutheran Church. …

… The Potential Role of Translation as Social Practice for the Intellectualisation of African …

… The Capitol theatre in Pretoria, described as the best in the world, is inaugurated. …

… Dr. H.F. Verwoerd is elected as prime minister in succession of Adv. J.G. Strijdom. …

… King William IV is crowned as king of Great Britain and the British Colonies. …

… Rockman condemns the behaviour of riot police squads as brutal and unprofessional. …

… Black opposition parties.  (Wallis gives the year as 1961.) …

… Black opposition parties.  (Wallis gives the year as 1961.) …