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… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … In a cabinet reshuffle, Louis le Grange, Minister of Law and Order, is replaced by Adriaan Vlok, Deputy Minister of Defence and …

… Botha, Afrikaans literary critic and former president of the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SA Academy of Scien …

… is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of …

… The discovery of the oldest complete fossilised hominid or human-like skeleton in South Africa by Dr Ron Clarke of Witwatersran …

… News 24 reports that an outbreak of Ebola virus in north-western Republic of Congo has killed 5 000 gorillas, helping to …

… A proclamation giving self-government to the Union of South Africa is read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, announces the suspension, from 11 January 1965, of the clause in the General Law Amendme …

… The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France. …

… John Ayliff jr, missionary, private secretary of governor Sir George Grey and postmaster-general of Natal, dies on board the Da …

… The General Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 371. … The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, …

… The Public Service employs 1 042 392 people – a decrease of 23 607 from December 1999. Seventy-one per cent of employees are …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Frederick and Clifford Nissen, brothers of the ANC assistant secretary of the Western Cape, the Rev. Chris Nissen, is shot dead …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 531 … A total of twenty-one people are serving life sentences for offences against the security of the state, according to the minist …

… Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door …

… Dr Hilgard Muller apologises to Zambia for the actions of five members of the South African police detained on …

… Alleged date of death of Makana by drowning while trying to escape from Robben …

… we Sizwe (MK), formed since June 1961 under leadership of Nelson Mandela, performs its first acts of sabotage by attac …

… Ferdi Barnard, former member of the CCB (Civil Cooperation Bureau) is found guilty of the murder in Johannesburg on the activis …

… Mozambique’s southern province of Inhambane warns that 100 000 people in the province are at risk of starvation because poor ra …

… Verwey: New Dictionary of South African Biography … Annie) Tempo, community and social worker and founder of ‘Nanny House’ for destitute girls on the streets of Cape …

… are prohibited to play for three years in England because of their rebel tour of South Africa …

… Four people, believed to be members of the ANC, are arrested in Gaborone, Botswana, and charged with the illegal possession of …

… Protests by thousands of farmers around the country against land reform legislation and loss of tax rebates, and against the go …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … A court in Pretoria sentences nine Blacks to terms of imprisonment from five to seven years on charges of training as guerrilla …

… Andries Dreyer, archivist of the Dutch Reformed Church, is ordained as missionary of the congregation in Cape Town for the Hano …

… Lt Gen. Moneim Riad, chief of staff of Egypt’s armed forces, is killed during Israeli-Egyptian …

… Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan …

… ferry capsizes on Lake Victoria near the western town of Mwanza. Of the est …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … A full bench of eleven judges of the Appeal Court upholds an appeal against a conviction …