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… After years of bloody civil war the first multi-party elections in forty years takes place in the Democratic Republic of Congo …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Following decisions by the ‘Committee of 81’ on 16 July and 30 July 1980, Coloured students suspend their boycott of schools in …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 605 … The Sowetan reports that the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela was burned down allegedly by a group of school children, after an at …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The government is reported to have paid the family of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, R65, 000 in settlement of claims …

… The name of the Mid-City Library (Sammy Marks), city library of Pretoria, is changed to Eskia Mphahlele Library and the …

… Robert Van Tonder, founder of the Boerestaat Party in 1986 to fight for the restoration of the old Transvaal, Northern Natal an …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Dr. Motlana, on behalf of the ‘Committee of 10’, repeats the call for non-ethnic elections for an …

… In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their …

… Document 9 - Report of the proceedings of the Second National Anti-CAD Conference held at Banqueting …

… The UN Security Council bans sales of arms and fuel to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) because …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Captain R.D.C. Miers of the South African Constabulary is shot and killed under a flag of truce by Field-corn …

… A total of 1 004 persons consisting of 849 burghers and boys, 152 women and girls, two Coloureds …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Winnie Mandela is formally charged with four counts of kidnapping and of assault, and will stand trial with seven others in con …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … visit (22-23 September) to the Ivory Coast in pursuit of his policy of seeking dialogue with B …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Justice van Wyk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is appointed as a one-man Commission to …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The young Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands puts the Gelderland at the disposal of Pres. Paul Kruger to jou …

… The biggest gathering of world leaders in history takes place at the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York 150 heads of …

… Fear of civil war escalates in Lesotho on the second consecutive day of fighting between the police and soldiers in the streets …

… General Jan Smuts becomes prime minister of South Africa. This date is given as 31 August by Keesing’s Events of World Records. …

… Anglo-Egyptian War Lord [Sir Herbert] Kitchener’s force of 25,000 decisively defeats the Dervishes at the Battle of Omdu …

… Joachim Nikolaus von Dessin (57), secretary of the Orphan Chamber in Cape Town and collector of books and paintings, dies in Ca …

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

… Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo, …

… The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The caucus of the National Party elects as party leader, and thereby as Prime Minister, Pieter Willem Botha, the Minister of De …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 10 | … The chairman of the Central Road Board of the Cape Colony, P.B. Borcherds, opens Bain’s Kloof Pass …

… Bishop Desmond Tutu is consecrated as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the first Black head of South Africa’s Angli …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: Vista. … Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were …

… The Rev. J.F. Naudé (75), DRC minister and one of six delegates who voted against the signing of the peace agreement in …

… The SABC reports that former apartheid minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok has apologised to the director-general of the Pre …