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… D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v.7, p.324 … Martin Melck, donator of the stand and builder of the Lutheran church on it, now a national monument, is …

… African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who …

… D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 626. … Mpande, king of the Zulu people and half-brother of Dingane, dies in Zululand. Another source gives the date …

… Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) …

… A photo exhibition is opened in the studio of Samuel Barnard in Adderley Street, Cape Town, in which the work of several local …

… Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, dies in Stellenbosch. She was known for her promotion of the arts and as an …

… Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) …

… Andrew Barnard (45), colonial secretary of the Cape and husband of Lady Ann Barnard, dies on a farm near Cape Town after …

… In a precedent-setting judgment, a full Bench of the Cape High Court rules in favour of the SABC’s request to televise Mark Tha …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 612. … Air services is inaugurated in SA with the amalgamation of a London-based company and a SA-based company under the name of the …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed) (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC, p. 241. … Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Molepo, east of …

… D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, p. 277 gives date as … Francis William Reitz, former president of the OFS and now Secretary of State in the ZAR, hands the ultimatum, which result in …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … SA signs treaty with Spain for the prevention of double taxation on income derived from the operation of ships or aircraft in i …

… Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (who died on 28 September of a heart attack) as president of Egypt. Date is giv …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … The mutilated body of Toto Dweba, UDF and member of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee, is found at the Natal …

… The Chamber of 17, executive body of the Dutch East India Company decides to establish a …

… Gen. Constand Viljoen is re-elected as leader of the Vryheidsfront with a bare majority of one when he receives twenty-two vote …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Dr. K.G. Abrahams is arrested in Gobabis area of South West Africa, and subsequently charged with being the chairman of the Yu …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  At Buffelshoek, a council of war adopts De Wet’s proposal to reduce the number of wagons to one per twenty- …

… The government and the ANC meet for their second round of talks and agree upon the Pretoria Minute, concerning release of polit …

… George Adamson (83), naturalist and husband of Joy, who wrote Born Free, and two of his assistants are killed by Somali poacher …

… The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in South Africa to help end violence …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations. … In his presidential address to the South African Institute of Race Relations, Rev. Dr Stanley Mogoba said that in spite …

… The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was …

… 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent …

… Hundreds of Burundians and a few foreigners pack the airport to catch the last commercial flights out of the country as the wor …

… This day saw R2 million worth of damage in 36 hours of fighting. Langa and Guguletu residents stop employees …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 528 Swart: … Broadcasting Corporation is inaugurated, set up in terms of the Broadcasting Act (Act no 22 of 1936). It broa …

… At the end of a damaging six-day strike of cabin crew and ground staff, SOUTH African Airways (SAA) …