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… South Africa’s Ryk Neethling beat Igor Berezutsky of Russia by 22-hundredths of a second to win the 200-metre individual medley …

… The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope …

… Presley Chweneyagae, 22, star of the Oscar-winning movie Tsotsi  is arrested in Pretoria on a charge of fraud after being trap …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … In the House of Assembly, twelve new nominated members are sworn in. They include Professor Owen Horwood, former Leader of the …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investig …

… The defence minister, J.J. Fouché, announces in the House of Assembly that he intends to increase the strength of the pe …

… Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor …

… A scientist by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most …

… General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I. …

… The leader of the South African opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, agrees with the government that the composition of the prop …

… Figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197 …

… Sen. Tommy Boydell, member of the Labour Party and ex-minister in the coalition cabinet of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, assaults J.S. M …

… Police announce the arrest of a number of Whites in connection with sabotage acts for which the Wit …

… government, for the first time, releases the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Int …

… Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils …

… Mahomed Lakhi is appointed lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University College for Indians (now Unive …

… Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulating the right of any person t …

… The government of South Africa and the African National Congress announce an agreement on terms of the ANC’s decision to suspen …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th …

… Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba …

… High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … F. W. de Klerk announces plans to revise some provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1982. He also offers to incl …

… Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po …

… The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 453 … The Star reports that delegates at the annual congress of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) were urged by …

… A special committee of the United Nations accepts an invitation by South Africa to send two of its members, Dr Victorio Carpio …

… Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people …

… Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai …

… Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He is officially ina …