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… Dr Sabera Bhamjee is stabbed more than sixty times in with a sharp object her consulting rooms in Pietermaritzburg.  Four of t …

… Guy Tachard, a French astronomer who set up an observatory in die Company Gardens in the Cape, makes his first observations. …

… A proclamation is published in the Government Gazette providing for the detention of offenders for up to three years in rehabil …

… Following violent student protests in Cape Town on 16 February, President Mandela warns in Parliament that he will not tolerate …

… General elections in South Africa. The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Re-united National Party) comes to power in coalition with th …

… of Zimbabwe is killed and six members of the ANC injured in a car bomb explosion in Bulawayo. …

… Minister B.J. Vorster and Chief Jonathan of Lesotho meet in Cape Town. A joint statement emphasises their belief in peace …

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

… The Acting General-Secretary of the Lutheran Church in South Africa claims that T. Muofhe, a Lutheran elder, has died in custod …

… and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t …

… Allen Frances Gardiner, naval officer and missionary in inter alia Port Natal, is born in Berkshire, England.  His last post w …

… Keet, one of the first five translators of the Bible in Afrikaans, is born in Alice, Eastern Cape. …

… Renewed rioting occurs in the Cape (18-19 June). Criminal elements in the Coloured community are blamed. Official figures repor …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 133 … The SA defence force attacks alleged ANC homes and offices in Gaborone, Botswana, in Operation Plecksy. Twelve or thirteen peop …

… team under Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 26-19 in Bloemfontein, to lead 2-0 in the series. …

… In the face of widespread protest the Prime Minister announces that provisions in the Advocate General Bill preventing the pres …

… American troops arrive in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, in advance of a multinational operation to feed and help send …

… Over 600 people killed in Liberia in an unsuccessful military coup against President Samuel …

… to bring aid to a million Rwandan Hutu refugees engulfed in a rebellion in eastern Zair …

… The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October …

… team beats Zimbabwe with an innings and thirteen runs in the first five-day test in Bloemfontein. …

… The SA cricket team beats the West Indies in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with 4 wickets in a one-day International Cricket Council Wills …

… Frans Lion Cachet (64), pastor in several parts of SA and various denominations, dies in Bergen-op-Zoom, the Netherlands. …

… soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f …

… state president of the Transvaal (1872), is reburied in Pretoria, nearly fourteen years after his death in Richmo …

… American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef …

… Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the …

… The military government in the Transkei lifts the state of emergency and banning orders on fifteen organisations in the territo …

… Lucas Mangope, Chief Minister of Bophuthatswana, held in Umtata in camera and attended by eight ‘ho …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. | … ANC member, and ANC Civic worker, Mr Nene, are killed in hit squad action in Ntuzuma, Natal.  …