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… Graca Machel, widow of Samora Machel and third wife of former president Nelson Mandela, is born in Gaza, …

… Security Amendment Act No 22, prohibiting any meeting of more than twenty persons to be held without the permission of …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The main report of the Van Wyk de Vries Commission of Inquiry into Universities is tabled. It advances some …

… Libya expels 145 members of the Palestine Liberation Front, a radical faction of the PLO, and close four training bases used by …

… Steve Strydom, former chairman of the Free State rugby union and well-known SA rugby referee, dies of cancer in Bloemfontein. …

… Verwey:  New Dictionary of South African Biography | The Star, 27 October 2003. … D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v, 5, p. 351 | … Governor Henry Barkly of the Cape Colony annexes the territory east and west of the …

… At the request of the Government of India, the General Assembly decides to include in its …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … treaty on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space. Al …

… Rachel Isabella (Tibbie) Steyn, widow of President M.T. Steyn of the former Orange Free State Republic, is honoured by the …

… Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk announces curbs on universities in terms of which they can have their subsidies cu …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, p. 492 | Swart, M.J., … The two Voortrekker states, one east of the Drakensberg and one west, unite to form the Republic of Natalia.  Practical diffic …

… Transworld Oil Shipping, a major supplier of oil to South Africa, ends all oil shipments to the country because of the "ec …

… holds a mass meeting in Durban to launch a new phase of Passive Resistance Campaign in view of the stalem …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: A crowd of stranded Black mineworkers block part of Marshall Street, but at night time the police persuade th …

… Document 69 - We Must Learn New Methods of Work”, Congress Voice, issued by the Emergency Committee of the A.N.C., 2, 2, May 1960 …

… A Survey of the South African Debate on the Decline of Socialism in Eastern Europe by Z. Pallo Jordan, September …

… The Council of 17 decides at a meeting in Amsterdam that Mauritius be abandoned as a subordinate settlement to that of the Cape …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 154 … van Niekerk, commandant in the Anglo-Boer War 2 (one of only six persons to vote against the conclusion of p …

… Mark Thatcher, SA business man and son of Margaret Thatcher, is arrested by the Scorpions on the suspicion of providing about $ …

… La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the SACP and president of the South African Colo …

… Pieter Gert Wessel Grobler, director of the Land Bank, and Minister of Lands in the Hertzog cabinet, under whose auspices the S …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The French Minister of State for National Defence confirms the continued supply of French arms to South Africa, except for anti …

… Lovedale College embarked on a strike against the new Code of Conduct and the appointment of the new Headmaster who …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 271 … William Henry Bell, musician, composer and first director of the South African College of Music, known to his students as ‘Dadd …

… Douglas Fuchs (84), one of the first full-time Afrikaans broadcasters and former director general of the SABC, dies during a bo …

… Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of …

… Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of …

… Act No 29, providing for the control and monitoring of aliens, and for refusal of entry, commence …

… Act No 29, providing for the control and monitoring of aliens, and for refusal of entry, commence …

… Ruth Perry is chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia’s ruling council, thus becoming …