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… The government of President Robert Mugabe will soon lay claim to half ownership of all the country’s privately owned mines, the …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Venda Independence Party (VIP) boycotts the opening of the Venda Parliament despite having won thirty-one of the forty-two …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … President Rafsanjani arrives in South Africa as part of a six-nation tour of Sub-Saharan Africa amid opposition to it w …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 155 … Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, is b …

… Sir Henry Frere, governor of the Cape Colony, lays the corner stone of the present Dale College in King William’s Town. …

… The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. …

… Speaking at the end of a two-day fact-finding mission by three ministers of the European Community (EC), United Kingdom Foreign …

… Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands from 1890 and throughout World Wars I (WWI) and II (WWII), abdicates in favour of her daug …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 424 … The Rev. Meent Borcherds, moderator of the synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1826, is born in Jengum, …

… A fistfight between parliamentarians of the ANC and National Party erupts in the parliament in Cape Town. Johnny de Lange of th …

… Samuel Bonnin Hobson, school inspector of the Cape Province and co-author with his brother, G.C. Hobson, of animal stories, is …

… D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 118 … Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Transvaal elected in 1857 and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Preto …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Proposals for the consolidation of ‘homelands’ in the Transvaal, which will have the effect of reducing twenty-six or twenty-se …

… His Majesty, the King of Malaysia, officially opens the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Teams of South Africa also take par …

… Keesing's Records of World Events, News Digest for September 1996, p 41255 | … (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) sign an …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Following unrest and rioting in the townships, the Minister of Law and Order prohibits all meetings of more than two persons, d …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The visit of the Ivory Coast’s Minister of Information, M.L. Dona-Fologo, to South Africa on a …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 4, p. 12 … Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, is born in Aliwal North district, CC. …

… Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and leader of the National Party from 1966 to 1978 and State Preside …

… Beyers Naude (89), an Afrikaner cleric who became one of the most important moral voices of the anti-apartheid movement, passes …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Dr. Zach de Beer, leader of the former Progressive Federal Party is elected as leader of the newly formed Democratic Party. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 5. … Lady Mary Bailey, daughter of Derrick Warner William Westenra and later wife of Sir Abe Bailey, Rand magnate and politician, di …

… Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … Ndamase, son of Pondo chief Faku and first paramount chief of Western Pondoland, dies. In 1869 Governor Sir Philip …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 158 | Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 223 | … Cetewayo (or Cetshwayo), last of the great Zulu kings, is captured by the British at the …

… with Morocco in an escalating dispute over the arrest of two Algerians accused of plotting to attack …

… A coup attempt fails in African nation of Chad. The government accuses Egypt of playing role in the attempt and breaks diplomat …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, … Court convicts former Police Colonel Eugene de Kock of six killings during his service as commander of a police uni …

… The number of people who discovered they were fraudulently married has risen to 779, according to the department of home affair …

… Troops allied with the government of Congo capture the strategic port town of Matadi from rebel forces trying to oust President …