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… Sir Leander Starr Jameson, in charge of affairs in Rhodesia, refuses entry to 110 Trekkers of the Adendorff trek, who congregat …

… Louis Ernst Brandt (65), minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and champion of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War 2, die …

… Dr Essop Goolam Pahad, Minister in the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999 with specific responsibili …

… Following the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa (in 1925 by DF Malan), Afrikaner …

… Following the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa (in 1925 by DF Malan), Afrikaner …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … its Ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a grant of 100,000 …

… Namibian football player for Kaizer Chiefs who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 98/ …

… an agreement with Southern Rhodesia for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with res …

… Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban proclaims a broad belt of land between the Keiskamma and Buffalo Rivers as the Province of Queen …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Sporadic outbreaks of violence occur (15-16 June) as the anniversary of the Soweto, Sharpeville riots nears, but there are fewe …

… Johannes de Wet (80), champion for freedom of the press against Lord Charles Somerset and member of the Cape legislative assemb …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … SA signs agreement with Romania for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Four other members of the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council resign. This is seen as the first step in the destruction of …

… Howard Carter discovers the steps that lead to the grave of Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Tombs …

… Forces of the British South Africa Company force Matabele King Lobengula, son of Mzilikazi, to flee his Great Place in Bulawayo …

… Soweto’s chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga is arrested and charged on two counts of reckless and/or negligent driving and one …

… Two South Africans of Indian descent, including the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, are told they could not travel to New Delh …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 155 … Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, dies …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh is found guilty on ten points of subversive act …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Security Amendment Act No 22, prohibiting any meeting of more than twenty persons to be held without the permission of …

… A group of forty German travel agents are robbed at gunpoint of their handbags in their bus at Cape Town’s Khayelitsha …

… soldiers in Kinshasa, Congo, when he orders the arrest of one of his aides …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Prison authorities release thirty-four of the forty-two mercenaries involved in the hijacking of an Air India plane after the a …

… premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest …

… The UN Security Council chooses Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be the fifth secretary-general of the world body. …

… Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College (later Grey University College and still later the University of the Free State) dies in …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Rivonia Trial, concerning two charges of sabotage, one under the Suppression of Communism Act, and one under the General La …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … (Petrus) K. Masiza, teacher and later priest in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, dies in Tsomo, Eastern Cap …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 414 … Allister Mackintosh, pilot and ‘father’ of SA aviation dies in Port Elizabeth.  He earned a D.S.O. in the Battle of the Somme …

… Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for October 1993, P 39723. … Brigadier Joshua Oupa Qqozo, military leader of Ciskei homeland, goes on trial in the Ciskei Supreme Court. He faces charges of …