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… Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Handbook , London: Cassell. … Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia …

… The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p …

… Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action. …

… In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U …

… Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t …

… African driver Pat Fairfield dies of injuries sustained in a crash in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in France. …

… One-day general strike takes place in Port Elizabeth to protest police attacks in Kimberley and East London which resulted in t …

… An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody in Johannesburg Security Police headquarters in August 1982 …

… In response to a question by Mr R Jankielsohn (DP) in the National Assembly, President Mbeki replies that he spent 300 days in …

… The United Party suffers reverses in municipal elections in the Transvaal and fails to contest the Randburg seats because of in …

… The farm Turffontein in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is registered in the name of Abraham Smit. In the following sixteen yea …

… against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a …

… Boniface, author of the first original drama published in South Africa, is born in Paris, France.   In the dr …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri …

… Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo.  He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19 …

… is of Khoikhoi origin means 'Tree Hill' recorded as such in 1778. In the Area is the Augrabies National Park where the Northern … Anagob, a Mountain Peak in Northern Cape …

… sent from the Netherlands, to find a trade Route to India in 1592. It was captained by Cornelius de Houtman. The … of their Sea journey was kept by; Paulus van Caerden, in his native language of Dutch! On the 6 th of August 1595 … with the various Portuguese navigators who had landed in Aguada de Sanbras, later known as Mossel Bay!   …

… a stampede that killed twelve people. Among those killed in the stampede were four children, the youngest age five. … with spectators. At the beginning of the match some people in the stadium chanted Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) … mentioned although not conclusively, that MDC had a hand in the stampede, something the movement denied later. Other …

… Southern African Development Community (SADC), was signed in the Namibian capital, Windhoek, to replace its forerunner, … Africa was not a member until the new treaty was signed in 1992. The structure has now grown from nine to fourteen … SADC treaty is signed in Namibia …

… the people of Africa as part of the liberals function in ensuring a positive socio-political change of thought. Bearing in mind that education is a Human Right and should not be … Education, development and change in Africa …

… Two rival political organisations in Zimbabwe, the Ndebele-dominated Zimbabwe African People's … Robert Mugabe, finally merged following consensus reached in 1987 to form a new political party called the Zimbabwean … Two rival movements merge in Zimbabwe …

… Campaign against Passes in the Transvaal in 1919 by E. S. Reddy, 04 March 2012 …

… Performance Polemics in a Plural Society: South Afrcan Theatre in Transition by Sandra Herrington …

… Twenty-two residents are killed in Katlehong and Tokoza, in ongoing township violence. …

… Bishop Abel Muzorewa returns to Rhodesia after two years in exile in Tanzania. …

… Bishop Abel Muzorewa returns to Rhodesia after two years in exile in Tanzania. …

… | Pretoria News Weekend, Saturday August 23, 2003. Today in History … The first sermon is preached in the old Groote Kerk in Cape Town. …

… More than 150 Congolese Tutsis are massacred in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. …

… Eighteen mineworkers die in a methane gas explosion in the Mponeng mine near Carletonville. …

… Seven Nigerian UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu. …