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… Speech of Nelson Mandela, Deputy President of the African Nationa Congress Pretoria University, 29 April …

… Britain takes possession of Ichaboe Island off the Namibian coast in the name of Queen Victoria. …

… Willem van der Berg, novelist and head of the Afrikaans programmes of the SAUK (SABC), dies. …

… Julius Gottlieb Jeppe (72), seller of most of the original stands in Johannesburg, dies in Johannesburg. …

… Peter Mathebula, flyweight of SA, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Association (WBA). …

… The first edition of Standpunte, mouthpiece of Afrikaans poets in the ‘30s and ‘40s, is published. …

… The parliament of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia meets for the last time to vote itself out of existence. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Progressive Party, 9-11 November, supports the idea of a federation of autonomous states in Southern Africa. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … have been withdrawn from three White staff members of the joint Institute of Race Relations. …

… Joyce Kgoali (54), chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, dies following complications after a minor …

… General Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes Egyptian head of state following the fall of President Mohamed Naguib. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Bishop Desmond Tutu, addressing a United States House of Representatives subcommittee, describes the policy of constructive eng …

… The Prime Minister announces a reorganisation of the governmental administrative structure, under which the number of central e …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 225. … Sir Henry Bulwer, governor of Natal, turns the first sod of the Durban-Pietermaritzburg railway line. …

… General Bantu Holomisa, overthrows the administration of Stella Sigcau of the Transkei. …

… Archaeologists of Egypt and the US discover a fleet of ships 500 years old near the Nile. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 432 | Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … Prof. Izak Daniël Bosman (50), professor of history at the University of Pretoria, dies in Pretoria. …

… Gen. Kat Liebenberg (60), ex-chief of the SA defence force, dies of cancer in Pretoria. …

… Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for February 1997, p 42052. … The South African Defence Force is accused of delaying the process of integrating former guerrilla forces. …

… King Hussein of Morocco is awarded patent rights in America of a machine that monitors heart functions. …

… The Durban College of Education is started in the backyard of the Durban Girls’ High School. …

… Nicolaas Marais Hoogenhout, founder of the “Afrikaanse Taalgenootskap” in 1905, principal of the Pretoria Normaalkollege, 1925- …

… Letter from Dr. A. B. Xuma, President-General of ANC to the Chairman of General Assembly, 9 January 1946 …

… A.J. Werth, former editor of Die Volksblad, Bloemfontein, is appointed Administrator of South West Africa (Namibia). …

… The Minister of Native Affairs is empowered to banish persons without right of trial or appeal.  …

… Roelf Meyer announces his resignation as leader of the NP in Gauteng and member of parliament. …

… The first work of Sita (Sara Susanna de Kock), winner of the Scheepers Prize, is published. …

… Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, announces isolation of tuberculosis germs.   This invention is of great significance to t …

… Police obtain information that Sisulu is an office bearer of Umkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation). …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The first elections of twenty members of the Legislative Assembly (19-21 March) start in Qwaqwa. …