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Congolese rebels send President Laurent Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of
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Congolese rebels send President Laurent Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of
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Andre Maasdorp de Villiers, who disclosed information to the ANC and Natal-based weekly paper on activities of the SADF’s ‘Hamm
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Andre Maasdorp de Villiers, who disclosed information to the ANC and Natal-based weekly paper on activities of the SADF’s ‘Hamm
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Clashes between pro-Inkatha hostel dwellers and residents continue in Soweto, with the death toll in the area rising to fifty-t
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Clashes between pro-Inkatha hostel dwellers and residents continue in Soweto, with the death toll in the area rising to fifty-t
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Three managers of the African Bank are sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the biggest fraud case heard in South Afric
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Three managers of the African Bank are sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the biggest fraud case heard in South Afric
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An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during
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Ruth Perry is chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia’s ruling council, thus becoming Africa’s firs
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The Liquor Laws Amendment Bill, under which Africans are for the first time allowed to buy liquor freely, comes into effect.
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Former president F.W. de Klerk announces his decision to leave the New National Party because, joining the ANC as was decided b
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Over 200 students at the University of Cape Town embark on a “sit in” to protest against government intervention that forced th
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The twentieth anniversary of the GRA (Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners) is celebrated and it is decided to hold the first Afrika
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The Liquor Laws Amendment Bill, under which Africans are for the first time allowed to buy liquor freely, comes into effect.
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The government of President Robert Mugabe will soon lay claim to half ownership of all the country’s privately owned mines, the
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Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, gives an assurance that the six refugees will not be required to leave the consu
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Transvaal burghers shoot Jacobus du Toit on horseback. He refused to stop when challenged. He is wounded and the horse killed.
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During the Egyptian Rebellion, British forces under Wolseley rout the Egyptians at Tel-el-Kebir and proceed to occupy Egypt and
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During a three-day trip to Cuba, Mugabe says in Havana the amendments he signed into law on 9 September, marked "the liber
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Iranian President Rafsanjani arrives in South Africa as part of a six-nation tour of Sub-Saharan Africa amid opposition to it w
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The visit of the Ivory Coast’s Minister of Information, M.L. Dona-Fologo, to South Africa on a fact-finding tour, starts. It
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Simon Mann is sentenced to seven years in jail by a Zimbabwean court on weapons charges. The two pilots get sixteen months
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Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and leader of the National Party from 1966 to 1978 and State Preside
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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, dies in Teyateyaneng, Ba
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Parliament has been defrauded of about R17m by some MPs in the alleged voucher scam, according to SAA’s latest report.
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Chris Hani is reported as saying that the ANC alliance is “preparing for a battle in the Ciskei” to remove parasites, obviously
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The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p
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As the United Nations Security Council debate on South Africa opens in New York, a major diplomatic effort begins to deal with
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