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… The General Assembly, in resolution 3324 E (XXIX) recommended that "the South African regime should be totally excluded fr …

… Justice R.J. Goldstone, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, exp …

… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … Maziya (wife), Zwelakhe and Elizabeth (all relatives of the chairperson of the Vosloorus Crisis Committee, Ali Maziya), …

… Festivities to mark the twentieth anniversary of the South African Republic reach a climax with a massive …

… Africa is declared a republic, independent and outside the Commonwealth. C.R. Swart, the former Governor-General, is swor …

… Africa is declared a republic, independent and outside the Commonwealth. C.R. Swart, the former Governor-General, is swor …

… The leader of the Basutoland National Party, Chief Leabua Jonathan, …

… Zairian rebels take control of Kisangani, the last government stronghold in the east and Zaire’s third largest city. …

… The Defence Minister, J.J. Fouché, gives the Senate details of South Africa’s defence programme and …

… The Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg is consecrated and Erasmus Smit …

… Sir Joseph Banks, zoologist and botanist, describes the Kompanjiestuin and small zoo at the Cape in his diary. …

… President Mangope extends the state of emergency, declared in four districts on 7 March, to the whole Bophuthatswana homeland. …

… Struggle hero Dullah Omar and SA transport minister dies in the Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in the Western Cape. …

… The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions submits a memorandum to the UN General Assembly calling for economic sanct …

… During the night the ANC mounts a sabotage attack on a petrol depot in which …

… Constitution Further Amendment Act No 21, providing for the detention of individuals ‘in the interes …

… South Africa is represented, for the first time, officially at a meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) w …

… A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals. …

… A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals. …

… Moses Mauane (Malume) Kotane, political functionary of the South African Communist Party and compositor of the communist newspa …

… Ex-president Pierre Mendés-France resigns from the French Cabinet in disgust over the current crackdown in Algeria. …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the Orange Free State. Lord Roberts changes the name to Orange River Colony. …

… Amnesty International marks forty years of activism. The organisation, which won the Nobel Prize in 1 …

… The Weekend Star, Saturday 5 March 1994 | … Cricket might become a national sport. The ANC recognises sport as the single biggest "healer" in a country torn apar …

… having overthrown President Sebe’s administration on the previous day, declares a state of emergency in the Ci …

… South Africa signs a multilateral declaration on the provisional accession of Iceland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and T …

… Stalin dies. Some 2 000 people are crushed to death in the crowd during the funeral.  …

… Moore, Johannesburg Methodist Minister, staff member of the Christian Institute and acting Secretary of the Universit …

… The US government approves a screening test for Aids that detects antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood …

… A bus service replaces the train commuter service between Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, and the Pretoria city centre. Commut …