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… The two Voortrekker states, one east of the Drakensberg and one west, unite to form the Republic of Natalia.  Practical diffic …

… SA signs agreements with the government of the US on missile-related export/import restrictions and with the UN Development Pro …

… The Prime Minister warns the opposition parties, the United Party and Progressive Party that his government …

… The government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) to carry out its activities. The date is given as 24 August 198 …

… Pieter Gert Wessel Grobler, director of the Land Bank, and Minister of Lands in the Hertzog cabinet, under whose auspices the S …

… The Duke of Cornwall, later King George V of Britain, lays the corner stone of the St George cathedral in Cape Town. …

… City Press quotes a researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Mr Mark Swelling, as sa …

… Students at Lovedale College embarked on a strike against the new Code of Conduct and the appointment of the new Headmaster who …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2:  Gen J.C. Smuts reports on the devastation of the Orange Free State by the British forces: “Dams everywhere …

… The match between the SA rugby team and New Zealand ends in a tie with 18 points each. SA loses the series 2-0. …

… The twentieth anniversary of the GRA (Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners) is celebrated and it is decided to hold the first Afrika …

… to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood | Meer, F. (ed)(1993). The Codesa file. Durban: Madiba Publishers, p. 104 … The ANC suspends all formal talks with the government and issues a statement explaining why it has …

… The SABC reports that the celebrated African poet Professor Mazizi Kunene, well known for his epic poem Emperor Shaka the Great …

… Report on the proceedings of the Special Emergency Convention of the African National Congress in Umteteli wa Bantu, June 23, …

… The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o …

… A gale force southeaster wrenches the Antipolis loose from her anchor and the ship runs aground at Oudekraal.  In the same sto …

… The Prime Minister issues a statement making it clear that the government will not yield to outside pressure to reduce the sent …

… The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load …

… ’Sorry Gandhi’ 105 years later. The following apology by the current president of the Natal Law Society, David Randles, is publ …

… Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre …

… The Minister of Defence says that South Africa has become self-sufficient in the manufacture of arms. The country is considerin …

… SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn. …

… The body of Eric Mntonga, the Border co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa …

… Document 16 - Joint Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All-African Convention and the African National Congress, 17 April 1949 …

… Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress of South Africa on the question of negotiations, 9 October 1987 …

… Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted. …

… Personnel of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron leave Durban to assist the United Nations in the Korean War.   …

… Allan Boesak, one of the participants in the Rainbow Debate at a heritage festival in Eersterus where a large part of the debat …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2: The attack on Fort Itala, occupied by the British, takes place with the British force retreating after fierce …

… SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony, …