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… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 209 … Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1 …

… Frans Reinhard Bresler, official of the Dutch East India Company and landdros of Graaff-Reinet, is born in Cape Town. …

… Walter Sisulu attends the annual conference of the ANC branch of the Cape Province at Uitenhage. Sisulu officiates as …

… Barend Bartholomeus Keet, one of the first five translators of the Bible in Afrikaans, is born in Alice, Eastern Cape. …

… Alexandrina Victoria aged 18, becomes Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland following the death of her uncle, Ki …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … school students in Soweto start protesting against the use of Afrikaans as medium of instruction for certain sub …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Theo Gerdener, is announced and will take …

… Ciskei’s former Commander of the Armed Forces, Major-General Charles Sebe, brother of President Lennox Sebe, is sentenced to tw …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 107 | ---, … Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori …

… Grintek of SA, Saab of Sweden and British aerospace sign a historic contract for …

… Jan Eloff, son-in-law of President Paul Kruger, is appointed as commissioner of Johannesburg, replacing Carl von Brandis, who w …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … between the Prime Minister John Vorster, with his Minister of Bantu Administration, and seven of the eight ‘hom …

… The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park announce a consumer boycott of Boksburg. The boycott by Coloured and Black resid …

… The Joint Committee of the First and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly adopts a French-Mexican proposal, …

… At a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the ANC President, Oliver Tambo, d …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … worker, author, pianist and amateur actress, and one of the first group of …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The arrest of five people, detained under the Terrorism Act, coincides with the Security Police search of the Johannesburg head …

… the ‘Wit Kommando’ claims responsibility for the bombing of the offices of Professor F.A. Maritz at th …

… Dr Sydney Arnold Skaife, founder member of the Cape Nature Conservation Association and author under the name of Hendrik Brand, …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 89 … The first of the ‘Bantustans’ comes into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel, opens …

… George VI becomes King of England following the abdication of Edward VIII. The Royal family visited South Africa in 1947. …

… Sytze Wopkes Wierda (72), architect of several bridges and designer of the Paardekraal monument at Krugersdorp, is born in Sea …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 485 … The Rev. Arnold Stofile, secretary of the Border region of the United Democratic Front, is released from prison on …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v.2, p. 256. … Ferrar Reginald Mostyn Cleaver, barrister of English descent who identified himself completely with the cause of the ZAR and wh …

… Gen. P.A. Cronjé and 200 burgers declare the auction of a wagon of Piet Bezuidenhout in Potchefstroom, to pay arrear tax …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … medical doctor, politician, landowner and great-grandson of Chief Moroka of Thaba Nchu who assisted the Voor …

… Marthinus van Schalkwyk, former leader of the New National Party and now ANC member and Minister of Environmental Affairs and T …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The French Ministry of Defence will no longer permit delivery of two escort vessels (corvettes) and two submarines under …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 89 | Swart, … Anglo-Boer War 2: The National Scouts Corps of doubtful repute, consisting of surrenderedBoers who were willing to fight on the …

… War 2: Ian Hamilton is appointed as Kitchener’s chief-of-staff. (SA National Museum of Military History. (1999). Ang …