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… The former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere bows out of mainstream politics when he quits as chairman of the ruling CCM party …

… The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W …

… The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W …

… Fidel Castro, president of Cuba since 1976 who authorised the intervention of Cuban troops in the Angolan Civil War, is born. …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Elands River: One of Col. Hore’s men, having sneaked through the besieger’s …

… In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into SARFU A …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 162 … Johannes Jacobus Janse (Lang Hans) van Rensburg, leader of one of the early Voortrekker treks,  is born at the Sundays River, …

… A number of student leaders at the University of the Western Cape and other community leaders are arrested …

… Report on the proceedings of the Special Emergency Convention of the African National Congress in Umteteli wa Bantu, June …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo …

… the lake he discovers in Africa, Lake Victoria, in honour of Queen Victoria of th …

… Verwey: New Dictionary of South African Biography … La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the SACP and president of the South African Colo …

… The UN Security Council authorises an urgent airlift of food and medicine for Somalia and demands the cooperation of warring fa …

… The government of President Obote of Uganda is overthrown for the second time and replaced by a …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 313 … Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi of Persia, who abdicated in 1941 in favour of his son, dies in exile in Johannesburg, SA. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The Minister of Defence says that South Africa has become self-sufficient in the manufacture of arms. The country is considerin …

… The Grosvenor of the  English East India Company runs aground in bad weather near the mouth of the Umzimvubu River.   Althou …

… A Portuguese attempt at an invasion against the Moors of Morocco is thwarted at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Bantu Holomisa, former ruler of the Transkei, claims that President Mandela had told him that Sol Kerzner (former head of Sun I …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  Lord Roberts sends his Chief of Staff, Lord Kitchener, to take overall command of the forces engaged agains …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn. …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 100 … The body of Eric Mntonga, the Border co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … trial ends in the Natal Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg of five Africans all of whom have previous convictions for subver …

… A Day In The Life Of Mandela: Charm, Control, A Bit Of Acid by Bill Keller (The New York Times), 12 September 1994 …

… Document 16 - Joint Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All-African Convention and the African National …

… War 2:  Fort Prospect, about fifteen kilometres east of Itala, is defended by about 80 men under Captain Rowley of …

… Allan Boesak, one of the participants in the Rainbow Debate at a heritage festival in Eersterus where a large part of the debat …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Closure of more than seventy Black schools, mainly in the Cape … is ordered by the government following five months of …

… SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony, …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 70 … The Department of Native Affairs is renamed as the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, with its main aim to …