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… The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October …

… state president of the Transvaal (1872), is reburied in Pretoria, nearly fourteen years after his death in Richmo …

… Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are …

… American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef …

… Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the …

… The military government in the Transkei lifts the state of emergency and banning orders on fifteen organisations in the territo …

… Lucas Mangope, Chief Minister of Bophuthatswana, held in Umtata in camera and attended by eight ‘ho …

… ANC member, and ANC Civic worker, Mr Nene, are killed in hit squad action in Ntuzuma, Natal.  …

… (70), board member of the Abraham Kriel Children’s Home in Langlaagte, Johannesburg, dies in Boksbur …

… Bikitshan, veteran journalist and story-teller is born in Mayfair, Johannesburg. He grows up in …

… Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea …

… Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where …

… Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during …

… Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured. …

… Bantu Holomisa, who became head of a military state in Transkei after a coup in December 1987, lifts martial law …

… Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town. …

… Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The …

… Adam Kok III (64), Griqua chief, dies in Griqualand East. Date is given as 31 December 1875 in another source. …

… The first private broadcasting station in South Africa is put up by the South African Railways in Johannesburg. The Scientific …

… Central African Republic, CAR, is sentenced to death while in exile in France. …

… Louis Washkansky (53), first heart transplant patient in the world, dies in Cape Town, eighteen days after receiving the heart …

… London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco …

… doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les …

… The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t …

… The largest concentration of national monuments in the country, the thirty-two restored buildings which had been damaged in the …

… succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His misadmini …

… children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri …

… and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in twenty-eight years in Sweden. …

… Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach …

… Mafikeng shuts down, and sporadic protests in the town and in neighbouring Mmabatho are halted by police and military …