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… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot …

… The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hert …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … United States black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam. Both state their opposi …

… The Cape High Court sets aside the department of environmental affairs’ decision to allow the construction of a pebble bed modu …

… African heads of state of the Monrovia Group, which includes Liberia, Togo, Nigeria …

… The former Minister of Information, Dr. Connie Mulder, resigns his seat in parliament at the insistence of the Prime Minister, …

… At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t …

… A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 303 … With the return of President Lucas Mangope to office after the short-lived coup, students at the University of Bophuthatswana d …

… Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people …

… Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Reader's Digest Illustrated History of South Africa : the real story, Pleasantville, New York: … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 34 | Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 371. …

… Commandant-General M.W. Pretorius installs Mpande as King of the Zulus after the power of Mpande’s brother, Dingane, is broken …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb …

… Athanase Seromba, a Roman Catholic priest accused of participating in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsi by ethnic Hutu in Rwanda, sur …

… At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants …

… An abridged version of the security report by Justice H.J. Potgieter’s Commission of Inquiry on State Security is submitted to …

… President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an …

… The official Commission of Inquiry into the media appointed in June 1980, under the chairmanship of Justice M. Steyn, tables it …

… Prime Minister P.W. Botha decides to invite leaders of the Black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a ‘statement of intent’ …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … African government decides to finance the first phase of the construction of a new railway line between Southern Mala …

… Addressing a joint sitting of two houses of the British Parliament, ANC president Nelson Mandela urges …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill is placed before the House of Assembly. The Conservative Party opposes it, while …

… Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan …

… After the abolition of the triumvirate, Paul Kruger is elected president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek for the first time. …

… Comdt Jan H. Theron, Danie Theron’s successor as commander of Theron’s Scouts, dies of gastric fever in the C …

… Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … Maggie Laubser, SA painter and receiver of several awards, is born on the farm Bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbu …

… Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami …

… William Richard Tolbert Jr., president of Liberia, is killed in a military coup. Samuel Kanyon Doe, the Chairman of the People’ …

… Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala. …

… Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala. …