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… The first meeting of the Joint Passive Resistance Council of Natal and the Transvaal is held in Durban. …

… Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu, daughter of African National Congress veterans, Walter and Albertina Sisulu and Minister of Housing sin …

… An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday. …

… Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies. …

… J.H. Conradie, Administrator of the Cape Province, lays the corner stone of Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. …

… The amnesty commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses applications for amnesty of a further seventy-nine AN …

… Thousands of Liberians flee their homes amid fierce fighting between government troops and members of an ethnic faction. …

… Prof. Nic Wiehahn, chairman of several commissions, notably the commission that recommended the legalising of Black labour unio …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … federation is officially launched following the merger of the Federation of South African …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 590 … Date of the implementation of United Nations Resolution 435 for Namibian independence, …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. lxiii | https://www.sahistory.org.za/ … Minister of National Health and Population Development Rina Venter announces the abolishment of racial segregation in state hos …

… Marthinus Lourens de Villiers (91), composer of ‘Die Stem’ (The Call of South Africa), dies in Wellington, Cape. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … A committee of inquiry appointed by the Administrators of Natal and the Cape Province, declares that East Griqualand …

… President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt refuses to resume talks with Israel over the question of Palestinian autonomy.  …

… Ninety-one people are arrested in Egypt as part of a purge of opposition to President Anwar el-Sadat …

… Agreement is reached in Working Group III of CODESA on the establishment of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council, which …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Three Bills dealing with the future of the Coloured population are introduced: the Prohibition of Improper Interference Bill; t …

… Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for March 1994, p. 39895. … Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi …

… Sir Lowry Cole, Governor of the Cape, lays the foundation stone of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. …

… Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in …

… Negotiations between Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to end violence in townships, fails. …

… The Republic of Venda Constitution Amendment Act No 4, having the effect of making Venda a one-party administration (s 24(1)), …

… The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) begins at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The government’s final proposals for the consolidation of the ‘homelands’ are announced. The total number of separate homeland …

… Robert Sobukwe, President of the Pan Africanist Congress, is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for incitement of Africans …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. Its recommendations include registration of Black t …

… Marius Philip Olivier Burgers, one of the first full-time broadcasters of the ‘Suid-Afrikaanse Uitsaaikorporasie’ (Afrikaans st …

… Date of the first preserved entry in the journal of Adam Tas, an early Cape Dutch ‘free burger’ …

… The Transkei tragedy: continuing a detailed study of effect of the Bantu Authorities Act in the Union`s biggest reserve …

… To Nelson Mandela: Statement of the South African Church leaders on the occasion of his 70th birthday …