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… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and …

… Mr. Tony Leon, Leader of the Democratic Alliance speculates on the declaration of an AIDS-related national emergency from the D …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 466 … four strikers to death four times each on charges of murder of non- …

… Henning J. Klopper, Speaker of the Volksraad at the time of South Africa becoming a Republic, joins the Railways. He …

… Gen. Piet Joubert, commander-in-chief of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, lays the cornerstone of the Dutch Reformed Mother Chu …

… abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand. …

… Dr Gideon Roos, former director-general of the SABC and founder member of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), dies …

… President Paul Kruger urges closer union of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. A treaty of alliance follows. …

… dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Simon Maswanganye, executive member of the Soweto Civic Association, is allegedly shot by a group of men in a white minibus in …

… The Seier of Norway is wrecked near Buffelsbaai, Western Cape, after having struck a rock in the vicinity of Walker Bay. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Council Bill is adopted, defining the functions and duties of the Bureau of State …

… In Sudan Ja’far Muhammad an-Numeiry, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council overthrows the government of Ismail al-A …

… The borders of the Afrikaner ‘volkstaat’ and the territory’s constitution is unveiled at an open session of the Afrikaner Volks …

… Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties the most representative gathering of South African political gr …

… envoy to the United Nations, Les Manley, storms out of a Security Council meeting after accusing the council of …

… A large cache of arms is discovered in a township near Springs, east of Johannesburg. Together with the buried arms are bundles …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 460 … The Sowetan reports that Amos Boshomane, a shop steward of the Steel, Engineering and Allied Workers’ Union of South …

… abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand. …

… Twenty-two members of parliament refuse to support a motion of confidence in Prime Minister P.W. Botha at a National …

… Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, becomes the Leader of Government Business in the Gold Coast A …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Keith Sandile Kunene, attorney Supreme Court of SA and chair or vice-chair of numerous companies and commissions, is born. …

… George Charles Gunn (Anton de Waal), composer of Afrikaans songs, co-worker of Danie Bosman and Nico Carstens, is born. …

… Four people, including Jerry Richardson, coach of the Mandela United Football Club, are arrested at the home of Winnie Mandela …

… The ANC national executive committee endorses the proposal of an interim government of national unity not more than five years …

… In a joint statement the leaders of seven Black ‘homelands’ set out the basis of a possible consensus solution for South Africa …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Dr Hasmukh Gajjar, medical practitioner, former chair of the Vodacom Group and managing director of various IT companies, is bo …

… Samuel Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in …