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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the

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Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van

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Tumi Padi and Nokuzolo, both MK’s, are shot dead in Soweto. Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the rep

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The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the &quot;young and e

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WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o

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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi

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At a news conference, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu says it is difficult

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The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C

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The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent

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S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N

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Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea return to open war with fighting repor

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An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com

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A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven.

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The Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, tells Parliament that nearly 700 terrorists were arrested in 1977 an

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Urgent supplies, including tanks and aircraft arrive at the Egyptian port of Alexandria with the convoy, code-named ‘Tiger’. Ge

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie

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Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S

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Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.

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Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World;

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British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res

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US President Bill Clinton, on a visit to Rwanda, acknowledges that the United States and the world failed to protect Rwandans f

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William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the South African interior, reaches Graaff-Reinet, which he has left in January

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Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies

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Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences

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The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre

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Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn

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Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav

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Publication of declaration for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African Political Prisoners signed by over 4,0

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In Sharpeville sixty-nine Blacks are shot and 152 wounded by police during a demonstration. (The official report of the Commi

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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the

Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van

Tumi Padi and Nokuzolo, both MK’s, are shot dead in Soweto. Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the rep

The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the &amp;quot;young and e

WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o

Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi

At a news conference, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu says it is difficult

The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C

The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent

S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N

Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea return to open war with fighting repor

An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com

A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven.

The Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, tells Parliament that nearly 700 terrorists were arrested in 1977 an

Urgent supplies, including tanks and aircraft arrive at the Egyptian port of Alexandria with the convoy, code-named ‘Tiger’. Ge

Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche

Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie

Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S

Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.

Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World;

British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res

US President Bill Clinton, on a visit to Rwanda, acknowledges that the United States and the world failed to protect Rwandans f

William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the South African interior, reaches Graaff-Reinet, which he has left in January

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies

Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences

The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre

Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn

Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav

Publication of declaration for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African Political Prisoners signed by over 4,0

In Sharpeville sixty-nine Blacks are shot and 152 wounded by police during a demonstration. (The official report of the Commi

The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the "young and e