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… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … South Africa signs joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Ecuador. …

… Egypt and Saudi Arabia announce agreement of peaceful settlement of two-year-old Yemeni civil war. …

… Carolus Johannes (Karel) Trichardt (Trechardt), son of Voortrekker leader Louis Trichardt and explorer of Mozambique, Zanzibar …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Liberation Organisation, regarding the establishment of a Joint Commission of C …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … South Africa signs joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Nicaragua. …

… Student Conference in Solidarity with the Struggle of the Students of Southern Africa, London, starts.  …

… The state of emergency is lifted. 10,500 opponents of the Government are still being detained. …

… government grants temporary reprieve to Chris Hani, chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe. …

… Speech by Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, Chairman of SACP, at funeral of J. B. Marks, Moscow, August 11, 1972 …

… Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, brother of Ernest (of the South African Diamond Corporation), is born in Germany. …

… Hyde Villiers Clarendon, governor-general of the Union of SA from 1931 to 1937, is born. …

… Laurent Kabila is consecrated as new president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire). …

… Sir Henry Bale, chief justice of Natal and later minister of education, is born in Pietermaritzburg. …

… Ceremonial Oration of the Grand Patron of the National Orders, President Thabo Mbeki, 02 December …

… The Prime Minister announces a reorganisation of the governmental administrative structure, under which the number of central e …

… Britain takes possession of Ichaboe Island off the Namibian coast in the name of Queen Victoria. …

… Willem van der Berg, novelist and head of the Afrikaans programmes of the SAUK (SABC), dies. …

… Julius Gottlieb Jeppe (72), seller of most of the original stands in Johannesburg, dies in Johannesburg. …

… Peter Mathebula, flyweight of SA, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Association (WBA). …

… The first edition of Standpunte, mouthpiece of Afrikaans poets in the ‘30s and ‘40s, is published. …

… The parliament of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia meets for the last time to vote itself out of existence. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Progressive Party, 9-11 November, supports the idea of a federation of autonomous states in Southern Africa. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … have been withdrawn from three White staff members of the joint Institute of Race Relations. …

… Joyce Kgoali (54), chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, dies following complications after a minor …

… General Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes Egyptian head of state following the fall of President Mohamed Naguib. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Bishop Desmond Tutu, addressing a United States House of Representatives subcommittee, describes the policy of constructive eng …

… The Prime Minister announces a reorganisation of the governmental administrative structure, under which the number of central e …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 225. … Sir Henry Bulwer, governor of Natal, turns the first sod of the Durban-Pietermaritzburg railway line. …

… General Bantu Holomisa, overthrows the administration of Stella Sigcau of the Transkei. …

… Archaeologists of Egypt and the US discover a fleet of ships 500 years old near the Nile. …