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… Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of …

… Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18, …

… In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the …

… The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of …

… the United Nations accepts an invitation by South Africa to send two of its members, Dr Victorio Carpio …

… Sir Robert Nelson Kotzé, mining engineer who did much to promote safety in mines and who became vice-chancellor of …

… judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai …

… F.W. de Klerk announces that the National Party is to withdraw from the Government of National Unity on June 3 …

… it would give an extra 8 million Australian Dollars in aid to South Africa over the ne …

… is born in Tshigalo, Ramukhumba, Venda.   She moved to White City in Soweto but return …

… Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central …

… The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agrees to hold talks with the National Party on setting up a White …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. | … leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ] …

… who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam, …

… judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai …

… main road, the first road south of the Sahara to connect the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, is opened. …

… ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to …

… command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. | … IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February. The party …

… process of homelands, Ndume (Ndumo?) Game Reserve is given to KwaZulu. This means that KwaZulu now …

… from Morocco for Latin America on a papyrus boat, Ra II, to prove his theories that ancient Egyptians …

… and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West …

… freighter with 3 500 Liberian war refugees is allowed to dock in Ghana after being turned away from African ports fo …

… 2 disappears after being shot at a taxi rank on his way to a meeting at Chief Mabogo’s k …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi …

… nurse in the Crimean War, is born. Nurses in SA undertake to honour the oath of Florence Nighting …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … joint statement that their respective territories are not to be used for acts of terrorism aga …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th …

… American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … President Vorster of lying and states that the decision to found and finance ‘The Citizen …