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… Prince Christian Victor Albert Ludwig Ernst Anton, heir of Norway, grandson of Queen Vic …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 303 … Residences at the University of Bophuthatswana, closed on 11 February after riots following the return to power of President Lu …

… The school order of Jacob Abraham (Uitenhage) de Mist eliminates the influence of the church on education and places education …

… The Minister of Defence states that South Africa will provide bases and communication facilities to the maritime forces of West …

… The Minister of Defence states that South Africa will provide bases and communication facilities to the maritime forces of West …

… John Tengo Jabavu (62), newspaper editor and member of the board of the Fort Hare University, dies in Fort Hare. …

… Frans Bresler, landdros of Graaff-Reinet, confers with Lieutenant-Governor Francis Dundas in Algoa Bay on the withdrawal of Bri …

… The first recorded appearance of Halley’s Comet in the southern hemisphere is entered in the diary of the Cape governor. …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 305 … at Ciskei’s Fort Hare University go on a six-day boycott of classes following the detention of a fellow student, Sicel …

… and protest media that support the democratisation of South Africa, the Minister of Home Af …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  At a combined meeting of the Executive Councils of both Republics, President Steyn proposes that the 74-yea …

… The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) chooses the South African Reverend Alan Boesak, of the Dutch Reformed Mission Ch …

… The Natal Congress of the National Party unanimously approved a call by the party leadership to "make membership of the Na …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 305 … Following the deregistration of 180 students who have not paid their fees at the University of Durban-Westville, students stage …

… Kwame Nkrumah, premier and later president of Ghana, is born in Nkroful, British colony of the Gold Coast (later Ghana). …

… investigators raid the upmarket Glenhurst wine farm boxes of documents are removed.  The raid is part of an ongoing b …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Sub-Committee opens an inquiry into the South African operations of 320 Am …

… WWI:  A new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps, is established with the view of being dispatched …

… WWI:  A new battalion consisting of Cape Coloured men, called the Cape Corps, is established with the view of being dispatched …

… official visit to Johannesburg on the first anniversary of the proclamation of the first …

… President Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas …

… Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow …

… President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of …

… The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, is detained by the police, accused of subversi …

… General J.B.M. Hertzog, as leader of the Opposition, announces he will introduce a motion calling on the Union of South Africa …

… Patrice Lumumba, first and only elected Prime Minister of Congo, is murdered. The killing of Lumumba remained a secret for year …

… Pieter Hackius becomes Governor of the Cape and succeeds Jakob Borghorst who returns to The Netherlands because of poor health. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … announces that Iraq will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its …

… Walter Sisulu, together with a number of listed persons and members of the ANC, attend a secret meeting where plans are discuss …

… Joshua Nkomo, president of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (Zapu) and a future vice-president of Zimbabwe, is born at a Lon …