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… Piet Crous, junior heavyweight champion of SA, wins the World Boxing Association (WBA) title. …

… announce they have found fabulous treasures in the tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt. …

… Spanish troops are pushed out of Morocco by Abd el Krim. africanhistory.about.com …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Cross-border abductions (11/12 December) of Shadrack Mzeni, Grace Cele and Danger Nyoni. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … signs joint communiqué with Venezuela on the establishment of full diplomatic relations. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 10, p. 259 | … The Statute of Westminster is passed, under which British dominions gain …

… Carlos Cardoso, arguably the finest of post independence Mozambican journalists, is assassinated …

… Pretorius arrives in the Voortrekker laager on the bank of the “Klein Tugela”. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Mandela’s bodyguard, dies after a shoot-out in the centre of Johannesburg. …

… A fugitive murderer holds the Alexander family of the SA diplomatic corps in Taiwan hostage. …

… Joe Ndhlela is appointed as executive head of the South African Premier Soccer League. …

… Thomas Pringle (45), journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Zwelakhe Sisulu, editor of the New Nation newspaper, and six other detainees, are …

… Major-General Muhammadu Buhari is declared Head of State in Nigeria, following a military coup. …

… Manie Bredell retires as head adjunct-commissioner of the South African Police. …

… Dulcie Joyce Lind Howes, doyen of ballet in SA, is born in Mossel Bay. …

… Hayes, S. (ed) (2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball … Yunus Ismail Mahomed, attorney, businessman and chair of Kagiso Trust, is born in Johannesburg. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Ten people are killed in a retaliation attack on the kraal of an ANC supporter. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 235 … The name of the town Victoria in the Karoo is changed to Victoria West. …

… Louis Johannes Botha, administrator of the Orange Free State, is born in Reitz, OFS. …

… The Rev. John Browlee (80), founder of King William’s Town, dies in the town. …

… The United Nations General Assembly approves a series of resolutions demanding sanctions against South Africa. …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Mkhuseli R. Faku, Managing Director of Afric Oil since 1998, is born in Port Elizabeth. …

… The Security Council of the UN institutes an embargo on Rhodesian import and …

… his brother Hannes are captured at Nooitgedacht, district of Rustenburg, Tvl. …

… Women’s Liberation Must Be Part Of A New South Africa by SPEAK, March 1990, Johannesburg …

… The constitution of Tunisia, independent since 20 March 1956, is promulgated. …

… becomes a self-governing colony with the first meeting of its National Assembly. …

… The Rev. Andries Adriaan Louw, influential minister of the DRC, is born in Paarl. …

… Speech by Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa at the naming of the Albertina Sisulu Freeway …