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… Prof. Carel W.H. Boshoff, former chairman of the South African Bureau of Race Relations and the Afrikanerbroederbond, is born i …

… The University of Transkei Amendment Act No 17, empowering the Transkei Minister of Education to veto, without giving reasons, …

… Lionel Percival Mtshali, national chairman of the Inkatha Freedom Party and former cabinet minister and premier of KwaZulu-Nata …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Organisation activist and Fihlokwakhe Nxumalo, relative of chair of local IFP branc …

… National Olympic Committee of South Africa | Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for November 1991, p. 38560. … Sam Ramsamy, president of the (NOCSA), announced South Africa’s acceptance of an invitation to participate in the Olympic Game …

… Algeria’s President Chadli Bendjedid appoints former head of military security to form new government in wake of widespread rio …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Johannes Albertus Munnik (Albert) Hertzog, leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party and eldest son of former SA prime minister G …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 566. … Numbers of Cuban soldiers and shipments of Russian military equipment arrive in Luanda, Angola, while …

… The first bar of gold is cast in Welkom, five years after the discovery of gold in the OFS. …

… Anton Ackerman, SA actor and member of the theatrical company of Wena Naudé and Willem van Zyl, is born. …

… A complete skeleton of a gorgonop, one of the most dangerous predatory carnivores that had inhabited …

… Cyril Ramaphosa, businessman and former secretary-general of the ANC and head of the Constitutional Assembly, is born …

… Prof. Richard Ernest van der Ross, rector of the University of Western Cape, is born in Plumstead, Cape Town. …

… Prince Arthur of Connaught, the grandson of Queen Victoria, arrives in SA as governor-general. (2004). …

… An explosion at the offices of the Department of Co-operation and Development in Marshalltown, …

… Further banning orders are gazetted, including that of the former leader of the South African Indian Congress, Yusuf Cachalia w …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 108 … Lungisa Livingstone Matutu, son of the Transkei’s minister of finance, is acquitted in the Umtata Regional Court on …

… Botha, SA prime minister, unveils a monument on the grave of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Z …

… Three SA cabinet ministers, Dr Sibusiso Bengu, minister of education, Joe Modise, minister of defence and Mac Maharaj, minister …

… The Ground-nut Advisory Committee, consisting of ten representatives of the main role-players in the industry, is established. …

… Frank Chikane, former secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches and current politician, is born in Johannesbur …

… John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS. …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Seshego, Pieters …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 606. … The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as th …

… Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" the East India …

… to Tangiers by the Spanish government as the first part of its intended invasion of Morocco. …

… The Minister of Bantu Education announces moves towards the introduction of free and compulsory education for Blacks. This is t …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (C …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 382. … Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit takes place, four days after the war …