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… conference on Lagos condemns apartheid but falls short of calling for complete economic en military boycott of SA. …

… Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu in SA. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Following the findings of the Viljoen Commission into the employment of African labour in twelve gold mines, the experiment is …

… King Moshesh (Moshoeshoe, Msheshwe) of the Basuto beats off an attack by Com. Louw Wepener of the Orange Free State. …

… Frederick William Fitzsimons, director of the Port Elizabeth museum for more than thirty years and pioneer of school museums in …

… Verwey: New dictionary of South African Biography … Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, is …

… The Commonwealth announces that it will send a team of about a dozen observers to South Africa as part of international efforts …

… The Commonwealth announces that it will send a team of about a dozen observers to South Africa as part of international efforts …

… Disclosure of Foreign Funding Act No 26, providing for the regulation of foreign donations by or for certain organisations and …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 183 … Jonker Afrikaner, chief of the Afrikaner tribe of Hottentots, dies in Okahandja, German West Africa.   He …

… Sir George Gray, governor of the Cape, lays the cornerstone of the New Somerset Hospital in Green Point, Cape Town. …

… ANC as well as COSATU issued statements accusing elements of the South African security forces of orchestrating the conflic …

… deputy defence minister, attends the 90th commemoration of the Battle of Delville Wood in France. During t …

… The Secretary of Health announces that all senior doctors in the Public Service, irrespective of race, will in future receive e …

… Alfred Beit (53), friend of Cecil John Rhodes and co-founder of De Beers Mining Company and Southern Rhodesia, dies. …

… John Cranko, SA born ballet dancer and choreographer of the Ballet school of the Wurtemberg State Opera in Stuttgart, Germany, …

… baby son, Kosie, dies.   Smuts later became prime minister of the Union of South Africa.  …

… The Act of Parliament, becoming law from this date, achieves the abolition of slavery as an institution throughout the British …

… Testimony of Martin Lutuli of the Natal Native Congress, before the South African Native …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The Federal Congress of the National Party supports the set of constitutional reforms outlined by Prime Minister P.W. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Dr. Raymond Hoffenberg of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town and senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town Medical School, …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The International Court of Justice in The Hague unanimously condemns the continuing presence of South Africa in South West Afri …

… Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, one of the richest mine magnates, buys Section B of the farm Langlaagte from mrs Anna Elizabeth d …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 206 … Henry Bathurst (72), British statesman and co-founder of the British Colonial Office, dies.   The town of Bathurst (1820) was …

… The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, to which SA is a …

… President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia calls for Margaret Thatcher to be excluded from the planning of sanctions against South Afri …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 385 … Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, son of an 1820 Settler, mining magnate, chairman of the Mining Board, representative in the Legis …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … convene a meeting to express solidarity with the students of Soweto and decide to embark on a boycott of classes. …

… Sebola says in Pretoria they are investigating a charge of murder and about ten of assault in connection with t …

… Mohammed Farah Aidid, who has controlled much of Somalia during its civil war, dies of wounds suffered during a skirmish with a …