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… Dr James Barry, physician at the Cape who performed the first caesarean in the Cape Colony, dies in London. …

… The SA Springbok rugby team beats the Wallabies 33-20 in the Mandela Cup match at Ellis Park, Johannesburg. …

… Reflections on the Pan Africanist Congress ‘Underground’ in the Era of the 1976 Youth Uprisings by Ali Khangela Hlongwane …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2:  The ZAR government formally requests military assistance from the Orange Free State in accordance with the …

… The Minister of Manpower Utilisation, Fanie Botha, tells the Conference of the Federated Chamber of Industries that migrant wor …

… A building housing several union offices, inter alia, the COSATO local branch, the head office of the Chemical Workers’ Industr …

… The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 22-8 in Port Elizabeth and shares the series with two each. …

… The Minister of Defence, Fouche, announces that private enterprise will be responsible for the manufacture of aircraft for the …

… Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Chief Councillor, announces that the South African government has agreed that members of the Kw …

… The Sudanese government suspends peace talks with the country’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, or SPL …

… The Independent Democrats welcomes eighteen municipal councillors mainly from the New National Party to its ranks on the first …

… The Independent Democrats welcomes eighteen municipal councillors mainly from the New National Party to its ranks on the first …

… While officially opening the Biennial Congress of the Coordinating Council of South African Trade Unions in Pretoria, the Minis …

… The commissioner of mines, Carl von Brandis, is appointed as the first landdros of Johannesburg, responsible for the administra …

… Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co …

… Meeting in a special session, the National Executive Committee of the ANC ratifies the Record of Understanding. It resolves to …

… WWII: The Active Citizen Force units of SA are authorised to accept volunteers for the duration of the war. …

… Dr. H. Muller is elected as the National Party’s leader in the Transvaal, following the resignation of B. Schoeman. His electio …

… The SA rugby team wins the fourth test against New Zealand 20-17 in Johannesburg, thereby winning the series 3-1. …

… The Gauteng Lions win the Bankfin-Currie Cup by beating the Natal Sharks on King’s Park rugby field 32-9. …

… A delegation of officials of the African National Congress (ANC), the United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Congress of South A …

… Leaders of the Azanian People’s Organisation, the Socialist Party of Azania and the Black People’s Convention announce they wil …

… Testifying before the Supreme Court on the killing of Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, Mr. Sipho Madlala claim that the assassinati …

… The SA rugby team wins the fourth test against Australia 22-6 in Port Elizabeth, ending the series in a tie. …

… Five days before the Whites only general election South Africans all over the country organise a defiance campaign against the …

… The Vatican issues a report, "The Church and Racism", in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo …

… The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in Pretoria orders the KwaNdebele police to stop assaulting two emergenc …

… Leader of the Opposition, Sir De Villiers Graaff, demands a judicial inquiry into the activities of the Broederbond, and demand …

… The Voortrekkers under Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit Maritz defeat the Ndebele under Mzilikazi at Mosega, near the present Zeeru …