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Speech at a luncheon for delegates to the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) board meeting Cape Town, 23 March 1998
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RESPONSE BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON BEING WELCOMED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY THE CHANCELLOR Oxford, 11 July 1997
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The Sowetan reports that, according to Henk van Zyl’s (state witness) testimony in the Pretoria High Court about events leading
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The Commission of Inquiry into Certain Organisations submits its final report on NUSAS to Parliament. It finds that its leaders
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development declares that no more land will be allocated to the ‘homelands’ other than
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The government extends its powers under the Internal Security Act from the Transvaal only to the whole of South Africa.
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Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu in SA.
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Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that their subsidies will be cut if they fail to "maintain
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The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, to which SA is a party,
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President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia calls for Margaret Thatcher to be excluded from the planning of sanctions against South Afri
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WWII: As the Eighth Army abandons Mersa Matruhin, North Africa, Rommel’s forces claim to have captured another 6,000 British t
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The SAPS becomes the first police force in Africa to launch a missing children website (missingkids.com.za), with 800 cases.
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Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B
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In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime. The nation’s
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Khedive Ismael (Ismael Pasha) is deposed and replaced by his son Tewfik Pasha due to the considerable international pressure ov
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The Harmful Business Practices Act of 1988 is gazetted ‘to provide for the prohibition or control of certain business practices
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Some 2 500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN. Secretary-General
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The Minister of Finance announces a change in the South African exchange rate practice. Henceforth the Rand is tied strictly to
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Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1
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Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1
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The General Laws Amendment Bill or ‘Terrorism Bill’, which makes terrorism a separate offence to be equated with treason, is ga
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Hendrik Hop, leader of an expedition to the north of the Orange River, is born in the district of Paarl.
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The government’s White Paper on the Riekert Report accepts that existing laws enforcing racial separation may have to be review
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Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former mayor in Rwanda, is sentenced to thirty years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide
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The Minister of Justice and Police, J.T. Kruger, announces his decision to appoint a one-man judicial commission in the person
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Up to 5 000 children still serve in the Ugandan armed forces even though they are officially banned from enlisting, a seni
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Dr James Barry, British military surgeon and inspector-general of hospitals (later alleged to be a lady), arrives in Cape Town.
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Petition to the South African National Convention from” aboriginal natives of South Africa, resident in the Transvaal”, October 22,1908
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The Cabinet meets to discuss the crisis in the government policy towards the Coloured community, following the capture of the C
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