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

… Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the brid …

… 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 …

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

… Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the brid …

… The constitution of the Orange Free State, which was largely influenced by the constitutions of the USA and the French Republic …

… Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for April, p. 37365 … was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif …

… Algerian Ahmed Ressam is convicted of terrorism for bringing a car loaded with explosives into the United States as part of an …

… The Human Rights Commission (HCR) of South Africa says that the level of violence in the country has reached unprecedented leve …

… Following the death of Lord Carnarvon in Egypt, owners of Egyptian antiquities swamp the British Museum in the hope …

… War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat …

… The shipwrecked sailors of the Nieuw-Haerlem leave the Cape with W.G. de Jongh after an enforced stay of nearly a year. …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 736 … independent African churches are the largest single group of churches in SA, accounting for a fifth of al …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 91 … As part of the consolidation process of homelands, Ndume (Ndumo?) Game Reserve is given to …

… Judge Pieter Combrinck finds the former commanding officer of the Vlakplaas unit of the police, Dirk Coetzee, as well as Almond …

… Lawrence George Green (72), SA author of mainly travel books, dies in Cape Town. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of Sou …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi …

… Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co …

… For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men …

… Following the proclamation of Abd al-Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, French and British citizens have been attacked by …

… Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Prime Minister of Swaziland visits Cape Town for talks with John Vorster and confirms that a policy of friendship and coope …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6, p. 476 | … A proclamation is published in the Official Gazette of the ZAR, prohibiting the hunting of game in the area between the Crocodi …

… The Oranje-Vrouevereniging (Association of Women in the Orange Free State) is founded on Onze Rust, farm of  former Pres. M.T. …

… Two pilots of SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting … the United Nations in the Korean War, blast a convoy of …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Mr H.R. Fox, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, after being made aware by Emily Hobhouse of the …

… policemen are to be charged with murder after the findings of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Sebokeng shooti …