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… Dr Albert Jan Jurie Wessels, author and founder of the Toyota motor company in SA, is born in the district of Boshof, OFS.  …

… Mobutu Sese Seko (66), former president of Zaire, dies in exile in Rabat, Morocco, three months after the end of his nearly 32 …

… that his goal has been accomplished and on hearing reports of the approach of a str …

… Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony from 1854-1861, with the exception of a few months when he was recalled, dies in L …

… D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, pp. 345-347 … Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony from 1854-1861, with the exception of a few months when he was recalled, dies in L …

… Howard Carter examines the remains of Tutankamen when the lid of the sarcophagus is lifted for the first time in 3,300 …

… A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, …

… In the desperate hand to hand Battle of Abu Klea, the British under Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart repulse the Sudanese Camel Corp of …

… A bomb explodes in the elevator of the building in the centre of Cape Town, which houses the President’s Council. One man …

… Despite the official announcement of the end of the Shaba War by the Zairian government last year, …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … with Great Britain on the release from the bound margin of preference of ten percent ad valorem on certain pres …

… Jochem Willemse saves most of the crew of the Hoogergeest when it is wrecked, together with the …

… The Allied Forces land on the beach of Normandy in the largest sea and air operation in the military history of the world. …

… Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 24 May in …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Minister of Justice, C.R. Swart, serves two notices on Solly Sachs, the first ordering him to resign as an official of the Garm …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 103. … Sithembele Zokwe, detained in terms of the Transkei Public Security Act of 1977, is shot dead at his home in Nqamakwe by police …

… (47), parson in Tulbach, dies and is buried in front of the pulpit of the Dutch Reformed Church. …

… Death of Herman Albrecht, a South African soldier who fought on the side of the British during the S.A. War and who received th …

… Reply to The Toast by the Governer-General of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Atlantis Resort Hotel: Paradise Island, …

… Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the toast by the Governor-General of Canada, Rideau Hall, Ottawa: 3 November 2003. …

… The Red Sea port of Assab, Ethiopia, and the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, 400 miles away, are linked with the re-opening of …

… Rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army spend the first day of their first-ever visit to Sudan’s capital since the civil …

… President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the …

… Speech of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the …

… Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 4, p. 102 … Johanna Duminy, writer of the well-known Duminy journal in which she gives a vivid description of life at the Cape, is born in …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … A Bill on Separation of Races is passed, which includes the provision that no person could be classified White if one of his pa …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The government of Ghana imposes a total ban on the export of all produce to South Africa and South West Africa, as a …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Acting Prime Minister P.W. Botha says in the House of Assembly that the government has no objection to 158 of the 178 recommend …

… Reader's Digest. (1988). Illustrated History of South Africa: the real story, New York: Reader's Digest … Alleged date the Suppression of Communism Act, No 44 of 1950 is passed in parliament. 26 June is given in several …