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… Reverend John Pender-Smith, chair of the SANBS board of directors of the SA National Blood Service apologises unconditionally t …

… Three leaders of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front (UDF) and two officials of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO …

… The Protocol to Amend the Conservation on Wetlands of International Importance …

… Relations and Development, relinquishes his leadership of the National Party in the …

… The government adopts powers enabling the Minister of Economic Affairs to compel companies to …

… The Star reports that construction workers have discovered a … mass grave containing human bones and ammunition 400m from the for …

… The Bafoken society brings an application in the Supreme Court of Bophuthatswana, Mmabatho, for an order …

… Prof. Carel W.H. Boshoff, former chairman of the South African Bureau of Race Relations and the Afrikanerbroederbond, is born i …

… Mauritania’s ruling president Maaouiya Ould Taya wins the first round of the presidential elections. BBC gives date as 7 Nove …

… The University of Transkei Amendment Act No 17, empowering the Transkei Minister of Education to veto, without giving …

… The National Party registers a landslide victory in a two-party by-election in Randburg, Johannesburg. The NP candidate wins wi …

… Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War. …

… The Rev. Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen (64), founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, dies in Paarl, Cape Colony. …

… Sam Ramsamy, president of the (NOCSA), announced South Africa’s acceptance of an invitation to participate in the Olympic Game …

… The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunited National Party), joining the followers of Dr. D.F. Malan and General J.B.M. Hertzog, is …

… The s (COSATU) calls a two-day nation-wide strike to demonstrate their opposition to the government’s intention to impose Value …

… An Ethiopian Airlines plane is hijacked over the Comoros Islands and crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 125 people. …

… The twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its …

… The first session of the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council is officially …

… A complete skeleton of a gorgonop, one of the most dangerous predatory carnivores that had inhabited the earth, is found near B …

… Students at the University of Bophuthatswana win a Supreme Court application to have hostels reopened, but the court rejects th …

… Ramaphosa, businessman and former secretary-general of the ANC and head of the Constitutional Assembly, is born …

… The controversial ANC manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality at Beaufort West, …

… James Read, missionary of the London Missionary Society who clashed repeatedly with the authorities and colonists, is born in A …

… The International Olympic Committee asks the federations that govern worldwide sports to bar any …

… The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against Brazil in a home game. (---(2004). ‘Footballer of the decade: Bafana Bafan …

… An explosion at the offices of the Department of Co-operation and Development in …

… Further banning orders are gazetted, including that of the former leader of the South African Indian Congress, Yusuf Cachalia w …

… The Transkei Legislative Assembly meets for the first time in Umtata and elects Chief Kaiser Matanzima as …

… Clarence Mlami Makwetu, former president of the Pan Africanist Congress, is born in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transke …