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… The newly formed DA-IFP "coalition of change" leaders of the parties, Tony Leon and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, hold their …

… Henry Allen Fagan, chief justice of the Union of SA, cabinet minister and playwright, is born in Tulbach, …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Mostertshoek, near Reddersburg, takes place.  The beginning of a two-day battle between Genera …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6 p. 242 … Gen. P.J. Joubert, politician and Commandant-General of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and political opponent of Pres. Paul Kr …

… Minister of National Education Louis Pienaar announces that the government will abolish restrictions on the number of Black stu …

… The maritime section of the Castle military museum, the Maritime museum, illustrating all facets of fleet activities in South A …

… Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC, p. 168. … Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J …

… says South Africans are becoming poorer each year because of the cost of maintainin …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball … Sakumzi (Saki) Macozoma, ANC politician, director of various companies and member of several Boards, is born in Port Elizabeth. …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.) … physician and professor who developed the Department of Medicine at the University of Cap …

… The first wave of a US military task force moves cautiously into central Africa, preparing for a possible evacuation of America …

… Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, accused of political …

… Another party claiming to be the legitimate custodian of Black Consciousness, the Socialist Party of Azania (SoPA) is formed. S …

… A British missionary, Canon Farmer, accuses Gen. Smuts of having committed an atrocity against members of his flock at Modderfo …

… Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … Nqwiliso (also Nowiliso), tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with Cape Governor H.G. E …

… About 500 members of a doomsday cult die in a church fire in a remote part of southwestern Uganda.   Mass graves containing 4 …

… Prof. Hans Roosenschoon, director of the conservatory in Stellenbosch, informs the members of the university choir that the cho …

… The expedition under August F. Beutler into the interior of the country, finds survivors of the French ship Le Nécessair …

… The MEC of Gauteng unveils a commemorative stone at the site of the White and Black concentration camps at Heidelberg. …

… The MEC of Gauteng unveils a commemorative stone at the site of the White and Black concentration camps at Heidelberg. …

… Nama chief Josef Fredericks cedes a strip of the Namaqualand coast to Heinrich Vogelsang for the establishment of a German comm …

… The Prime Minister meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discusses the revival of the Highland Water Scheme and emphasis …

… The Prime Minister meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discusses the revival of the Highland Water Scheme and emphasis …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Prime Minister meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discusses the revival of the Highland Water Scheme and emphasis …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Hundreds of Coloured school children are arrested in Johannesburg in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act during a student-polic …

… Hendrika (Rikie) Postma, author of chiefly Bible stories and other stories for children and prominent supporter of the Ossewa-t …

… Daniël F. du Toit, (’oom Lokomotief’) (77), founder member of the ‘Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners’ and editor of ‘Die Afrikaa …

… Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff (73), 2nd president of the Orange Free State, is born in the district of Pietermaritzburg. …

… As the nationalist uprising of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA, Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) en …