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… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … In a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the …

… Derek Louw and Franco Fruscurd, editor and cartoonist of the Wits Student, are arrested and detained overnight on charges of de …

… The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university …

… on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o …

… Dr Carel de Wet, grandson of Gen. C.R. de Wet, former minister of health and diplomat, is born in Memel, OFS. …

… Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, at one time governor of Natal and of the …

… In the British House of Commons the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Expenditure proposes an inquiry …

… The Rev. Evert Jean Jacques van der Horst, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and member of parliament for Wolmaransstad, is …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: A council of war at Poplar Grove, OFS, gives Danie Theron permission to form a Scout Corps consisting of abou …

… Statement of intent between the governments of South Africa and the United States to establish the South …

… More than 200 of the Transvaal National Party vote on either Dr. Treurnicht or Mr. Botha’s interpretation of Party policy. The …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 306 … security force soldiers raid the Allan Taylor residence of the University of Natal, three days after the bannin …

… Africans are detained in the Transkei on an allegation of conspiracy to commit murder. Five are opposition members of the …

… amended the emergency regulations to allow the minister of law and order to restrict the activities of orga …

… Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel announces during the reading of the budget in Parliament that his ministry and the Reserve …

… The Minister of Justice and the Police, Jimmy Kruger, states that a full-scale judicial commission of inquiry into deaths in de …

… The area is officially named Pageview in honour of the then Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. J.J. Page. Up to t …

… State Vierkleur is hoisted for the first time and the coat of arms of the republic is unveiled. …

… The fifteenth Annual Conference of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) alters its constitution in such a way …

… Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in …

… 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, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated …

… The body of seventeen year old stowaway, Samuel Benjamin, found in the wheel-well of a British Airways aircraft in Los Angeles …

… Top leadership officials of the United Democratic Front (UDF) are arrested. Of the thirteen detained, six are to be charged for …

… Southern Rhodesian Minister of Railways H.W. Moffat visits Cape Town to discuss the building of Beit Bridge over the Limpopo Ri …

… Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They …

… Letter written by the Lord Killanin of the IOC to Frank Braun president of the South African National Olympic Committee, 1967 …

… South Africa’s Ryk Neethling beat Igor Berezutsky of Russia by 22-hundredths of a second to win the 200-metre individual medley …

… The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope …

… Presley Chweneyagae, 22, star of the Oscar-winning movie Tsotsi  is arrested in Pretoria on a charge of fraud after being trap …

… (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … In the House of Assembly, twelve new nominated members are sworn in. They include Professor Owen Horwood, former Leader of the …