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… (70), board member of the Abraham Kriel Children’s Home in Langlaagte, Johannesburg, dies in Boksbur …

… Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, dies in Pretoria. …

… Bikitshan, veteran journalist and story-teller is born in Mayfair, Johannesburg. He grows up in …

… Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea …

… Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during …

… Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured. …

… Bantu Holomisa, who became head of a military state in Transkei after a coup in December 1987, lifts martial law …

… Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town. …

… Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The …

… Adam Kok III (64), Griqua chief, dies in Griqualand East. Date is given as 31 December 1875 in another source. …

… The SA cricket team beats the West Indies with nine wickets in Durban to lead 3-0 in the series of five. …

… The first private broadcasting station in South Africa is put up by the South African Railways in Johannesburg. The Scientific …

… Central African Republic, CAR, is sentenced to death while in exile in France. …

… Louis Washkansky (53), first heart transplant patient in the world, dies in Cape Town, eighteen days after receiving the heart …

… London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco …

… doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les …

… (80), member of cabinet and acting SA state president in 1967 and 1968, dies in Cape Town. …

… The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t …

… The largest concentration of national monuments in the country, the thirty-two restored buildings which had been damaged in the …

… succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His misadmini …

… children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri …

… and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in twenty-eight years in Sweden. …

… Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach …

… Mafikeng shuts down, and sporadic protests in the town and in neighbouring Mmabatho are halted by police and military …

… medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 252. … Civic Association, is allegedly shot by a group of men in a white minibus in …

… The Harms Commission, appointed in December 1989 by the F.W. de Klerk government to investigate into state involvement in polit …

… (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria. …

… Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month, …

… Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach …