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… The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) chooses the South African Reverend Alan Boesak, of the Dutch Reformed Mission Ch …

… The Labour Relations Amendment Act, amending the Labour Relations Act of 1956, comes into force. The Black trade union movement …

… In response to President Botha’s hardline speech at the party’s Natal congress, the president of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, reaffir …

… tank shelling sinks three Egyptian troop-carrying boats in the Suez Canal. Israel claims the ships violated the Egyptia …

… Kruger pays his second official visit to Johannesburg on the first anniversary of the proclamation of the first …

… SA signs agreement with the Republic of China concerning the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion …

… Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas …

… African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow …

… The South African Defence Force (SADF) admits the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), which …

… Prime Minister J.C. Smuts announces the intention of the government to introduce new legislation to replace the Pegging Act, du …

… The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, is detained by the police, accused of subversi …

… Revised figures for the Defence Budget indicate the funds available to the South African Defence Force have been increased to R …

… A SA fishing trawler, the Sudurhavid, comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow …

… Cecil John Rhodes gives evidence before the South African Committee of the House of Commons on the Jameson Raid enquiry. …

… Two limpet mines explode at the SADF Transvaal Medical Command, Hillbrow, Johannesburg. The mines are seen by a member of the S …

… Letter from the ANC Youth League (Transvaal) to the Secretary [Ruth First] of the Progressive Youth Council, 16 March 1945 …

… ”The Duty of a Communist in the National Liberation Army - Umkhonto we Sizwe”. Internal memo by the SACP Central Committee, 1967 …

… The government is reported to have frozen the South African assets of the former Information Secretary, Dr. Eschel Roodie, and …

… A statement released at the ANC’s 93rd anniversary celebrations in Umtata, calls for the transformation of the judiciary and ma …

… On the 70th anniversary of the formation of the ANC, MK attacks Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town. …

… The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 1925 …

… Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Handbook, London: Cassell. … The conference at Aburi, Ghana (4-5 January), fails to prevent the secession of Biafra from Nigeria and the ensuing civil war. …

… Remarks at the Closing Ceremony of the Second Session of the South Africa-Algeria Bi-National Commission, 19 October …

… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill receives its third reading. Among its provisions are the abolition of the Senate …

… The Star reports that a Group Areas Bill, which sought to increase drastically the penalties for contravention of the Group Are …

… first discovered at Kimberley, South Africa, leading to the construction of the world’s largest open mine, the Big …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology | … The nineteen year old Princess Wilhelmina is crowned as queen of the Netherlands.  She strongly sympathised with the cause of …

… The Moutse (Validation of Actions) Bill, providing for the validation of government actions in Moutse during the period of its …

… The police confirm that three leading members of the Black journalist trade union, the Media Workers Association of South Afric …

… The Principal’s office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) is burnt down and the following day the same riot squad threaten officials …