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… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto. …

… Potchefstroom Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in SA, is born in Rustenburg, …

… Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati …

… A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze. …

… The Rev. Pierre Simond delivers the first sermon in French in the Cape when he addresses Huguenot refugees at …

… Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the Nama tribe in German South West Africa, dies in a skirmish with the Germans near Keetmanshoop, S …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee | … Hadebe, ANC Natal midlands deputy chair, is gunned down in an ambush on a vehicle transporting senior ANC officials in R …

… of Bantu Administration and Development states that, in 1973, 475,387 foreign Africans were working in South Afric …

… (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th …

… (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Ten people die in Khayelitsha when gunmen open fire on taxi association members in a revival of Western Cape taxi hostilities. …

… Five miners die in a hoisting accident on Rustenburg Platinum Mines, bringing to fifteen the death toll in mining accidents dur …

… Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced …

… Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, suspected of complicity in the 20 …

… South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies …

… South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies …

… Arnoldus (Piet) Cronjé, politician and military leader in the ZAR and general during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in …

… of the National Intelligence Agency is found shot dead in his car in Silverton, Pretoria. He was investigati …

… Sergio Motsoaneng, a gold medal winner in the 1999 Comrades, admits his brother ran sections of the race in his place. …

… Funde, businessman and director on several boards, is born in Johannesburg. He achieved an MSc in Electrical Engi …

… between Zulus and others, involving circa 10,000 Blacks in running fights start, causing chaos in Soweto …

… Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu in SA. …

… Fourteen people die in an attack on a cinema building in Umlazi where the funeral service for murdered UDFmember, …

… and appointed principal of the Huguenot University College in 1916, is born in …

… chief of the Afrikaner tribe of Hottentots, dies in Okahandja, German West Africa.   He was born c. 1790 in …

… The Secretary of Health announces that all senior doctors in the Public Service, irrespective of race, will in future receive e …

… An armed group kills 29 people in south-western Algeria in the worst violence since President Abdelaziz Bouteflika …

… Comdt Louw Wepener (53) is killed in combat during an attack on Moshesh at Thaba Bosigo in the Free State. …

… In Kenya 200 raiders attacks the police station in Likoni, Mombasa. Prisoners are freed; six police officers …

… Saint, first professor of surgery at the Medical school in Cape Town, is born in Northumberland, Engla …