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… The first Union Parliament of SA opens, with James Molteno as speaker and F.W. Reitz as president of the Senate.  The first Un …

… Speech by Oliver Tambo at the 50th session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the liberation of Africa, Harare, 13 May 1988 …

… The first group of 120 exiles returning to South Africa under the agreement reached in August by UNHCR and the South African au …

… Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa | Wallis, F. … Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Methuen attempt to advance and are defeated by the Boers under Cronje as the Battle of Mage …

… The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the …

… The Star quotes the Lesotho foreign minister, Mr Mooki Molapo, as having said that at a meeting he had with the minister of for …

… Rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army spend the first day of their first-ever visit to Sudan’s capital since the civil wa …

… from whose poem President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the …

… The head of the United Nations (UN) commission on Rwanda concludes that genocide in the country in this year cost 500,000 lives …

… The four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel, …

… of some 12 000 Western Xhosas, led by Makoma (Maqoma), the leader of the Gaika tribe, sweeps into the Cape Colony …

… Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel lays the first bricks of an octagonal church, the tower of which still forms part of the G …

… WWII: According to an entry in the squadron’s diary, 28 Squadron of the SA Air Force is formed as a transport squadron at the S …

… Second sale of land in Johannesburg takes place, on the site of the now-abandoned mining claims in the central city area. See: …

… D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo …

… Joyce, Peter: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid … D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo …

… The incidence of new HIV infections appears to have stabilised for the first time in the 25-year history of Aids, according to …

… The UN Security Council declares the Congo River open again after two years and six months of war. The closure has affected foo …

… Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa … Anglo-Boer War 2: On the same day both the oldest and the youngest prisoners of war to be deported, are captured at …

… Thousands of Namibians welcome the head of the UN task force, General Prem Chand, in Windhoek. Chand is in charge of the milita …

… Walter Benson Rubusana, founder member of the ANC, is born at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His …

… Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid … Mr Denis Howell, the British Minister dealing with sport, says in the House of Commons that if the MCC selects Basil D’Oliviera …

… The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on …

… Maguire, R. (2004). 'Irvin Khoza: Personality of the Decade,' Kick Off 1994-2004, Special Edition, p. 38. | … Dr Irvin Khoza (The Iron Duke) who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Personality of the Decade for his contribution to SA …

… The British (no 1) supply column moving up the North Coast towards Eshowe is attacked by about 5000 Zulus as they cross the Nye …

… Gen. J.C. Smuts is elected as premier in the fourth general election of the Union of South Africa. Burne: Chronicle of the Wo …

… South Africa beats the West Indies with 50 runs in the seventh one-day cricket match at Centurion Park, to clinch the series 6- …

… The Venda Attorney General announces he has ordered an inquiry into the death of Mr. Muffle to be held in the Sibasa Magistrate …

… The Minister of Foreign Affairs, ‘Pik’ Botha, says in the House of Assembly that the Biko affair has done endless harm to South …

… The South Korean businessman Yong Koo Kwong, head of the Daewoo motor company in South Africa, is shot in the driveway of his h …