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… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … An International Commission of Jurists report alleges the widespread use of force and torture by security forces on anti-aparth …

… Gert Oosthuizen, Deputy Minister of Sport and Recreation in the Republic of South Africa since 10 May 2004, is born. …

… Mandela is elected unopposed as first Black President of South Africa in the first session of the National Assembly. …

… Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, marries Ina Joubert, ex-journalist of the SABC, on his birthday in Pretoria. …

… Eleven days after the killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the siege of the Libyan embassy ends and thirty Libyans (d …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Winnie Mandela, former wife of President Mandela, is overwhelmingly re-elected as president of the ANC’s Women’s League by 656 …

… WWII: North Africa: Following the fall of the Halfaya Pass, three columns of Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps have crossed the b …

… The Chief of Staff (Operations) says that the development of South Africa’s defence has made the country completely …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Chief of Staff (Operations) says that the development of South Africa’s defence has made the country completely …

… 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. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … that Clarence Makwetu has been suspended as chairman of the party pending the outcome of a disciplinary heari …

… genocide trials begin in Kigali, Rwanda, against some of the 30 000 majority Hutus accused of killing Tutsis. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Saul Mkheze, leader of a Black farming community, is shot dead during a protest meeting at Driefontein, 200 miles east of Johan …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 718 … A silent procession of nearly 1000 people, led by religious leaders, file through the streets of Durban to express their opposi …

… JARIC, voted best support unit of the SA Air Force 2003, is established as a section of the Central Phototechnical Establishmen …

… The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 521 … Former information officer of the SADF, Brig. J. Bosman, reveals in Parliament that one third of the 3 000 troops involved in S …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Minister of Justice banns all protest meetings in the centre of Cape Town, following student protests. Several arrests are …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Commission of Inquiry into the South African Press tables the second part of its report, severely criticising the reporting …

… disintegrated. Patrice Lumumba is now in control of much of the country. …

… Thousands of Liberian war refugees, many ill after a week at sea, are refused admission to the Ghanaian port of Takoradi. …

… The district of Albert (Burgersdorp), submits a petition to parliament in which the use of Dutch, jointly with English, is requ …

… Mozambique rejects the findings of the Margo commission of inquiry into the air crash in which Mozambican leader …

… A Bill prohibiting demonstrations near the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town is passed with the support of the opposition Unite …

… War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie …

… Mr Piet Clase, Minister of Education for Whites, announces that the government has decided to abandon the principle of segregat …

… Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World; …

… Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies …