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… Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at a concert organised by the …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Ellen Kate Kuzwayo, ANC politician and noted writer of Call me Woman (winner of CNA Award 1985 and translated into s …

… National Day of Protest and Mourning. The first national political strike called by the ANC as an act of national mourning and …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … in Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town an …

… announces that 123 persons have been banned as a result of the June 16 revolt. The minister of police im …

… Leonid Shvetsov of Russia sets a new recod of five hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds in winning the 2007 …

… Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province. …

… The 150th celebration of the founding of Pretoria (on 16 November 1855) is celebrated by more than …

… The University of Stellenbosch alumni decide not to ask for a review of the decision to confer an honorary doctorate on Bram Fi …

… Stephen Vukile (Steve) Tshwete, former minister of Sport and Recreation and from 1999 up to his death in 2002 minister of Safet …

… The Star reports that poor management of SANDF equipment and the theft of weapons that ended up in rebels’ hands are fuelling t …

… Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed) (1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC, p. 250. … Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT) …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 656. … Count Du Prè Alexander, Earl of Caledon (61), first civil governor of the Cape, is born in Ireland.  He instituted circuit co …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 205 … On his last voyage of discovery in the Resolution and the Discovery, Capt. James Cook finds a group of islands, which he named …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … SA Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha warns that SA will not tolerate the introduction of Cuban troops and will not hesitate …

… donned a SADF uniform and gained entry into the premises of the Wits Command to make a surveillance of …

… post by H.M. Stanley and named Leopoldville in honour of King Leopold II of Belgium. In 19 …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Eleven members of the ANC Youth League die in Nquthu in an IFP attack on the home of ANC supporting chief Molefe. …

… Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re …

… Judge M.T. (Theunie) Steyn, judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa, is born on the farm Onze …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Dr Lindiwe Mbambo, wife of an ANC official and member of Watville Concerned Residents Committee, is shot dead by …

… Police find 46kg of cocaine worth R21 million in a box in the cargo section of Johannesburg International Airport. A man with a …

… Six militants open fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing seventy-four people, sixty-one of them foreign tou …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Following the placing of an embargo on the supply of oil to South Africa from Arab countries, the Prime …

… Prof. Russel Botman is appointed as rector of the University of Stellenbosch. He is the first theologian and also the …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 101 … reports that Captain M. Hlela, state witness in the trial of six Ciskei police officers for the murder of Eric M …

… Joyce: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid … The conference of the ANC rejects the Bantu Authorities Act, which, it is stated, was intended to prevent the development of th …

… Million Dollar Golf Tournament at Sun City with a record of 263, five less that Colin Montgomery of …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … At the end of an eight-month trial a University lecturer, Eddie Webster and four White students are acquitted of all charges ag …