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… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investig …

… The defence minister, J.J. Fouché, announces in the House of Assembly that he intends to increase the strength of the pe …

… Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor …

… A scientist by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most …

… General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I. …

… The leader of the South African opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, agrees with the government that the composition of the prop …

… Figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197 …

… Sen. Tommy Boydell, member of the Labour Party and ex-minister in the coalition cabinet of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, assaults J.S. M …

… Police announce the arrest of a number of Whites in connection with sabotage acts for which the Wit …

… government, for the first time, releases the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Int …

… Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils …

… Mahomed Lakhi is appointed lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University College for Indians (now Unive …

… Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulating the right of any person t …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th …

… Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba …

… High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … F. W. de Klerk announces plans to revise some provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1982. He also offers to incl …

… Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po …

… The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general …

… A special committee of the United Nations accepts an invitation by South Africa to send two of its members, Dr Victorio Carpio …

… Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people …

… Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai …

… Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He is officially ina …

… Alwyn Petrus Burger, founder of the charity service of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal, is born in …

… Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas …

… Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the …

… Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the …

… Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well …

… Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a …