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… Prof. Jan Kamp, literary critic and editor of Het Westen, is born in the Netherlands. …

… SA Department of Justice announces that more than 1 000 ANC members have …

… Speech by Sam Shilowa, General Secretary of COSATU, at the SACP 75th Anniversary Rally …

… Jacob Ludwig Döhne, missionary and translator of the Zulu Bible, is born in Zierenberg, Germany. …

… Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi signs a package of reforms aimed at making Kenya a multiparty democracy. …

… Gen. David Joubert (Ou Kat), explorer and leader of expeditions to East Africa, is born. …

… Rodney Petersen (12) of Clanwilliam, Western Province, dies during a cricket game …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Felix Mvelase, son of IFP Transvaal chair Vitus Mvelasi, is killed by gunmen in …

… in Southern Rhodesia is overwhelmingly in support of Ian Smith’s proposal for independence. …

… Gary Kirsten, SA cricket player and stepbrother of Peter Kirsten, is born in Cape Town. …

… Abdelkader Hachani, a moderate leader of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front, is fatally shot …

… Tom Vraalsen, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, visits South Africa (22 November …

… US President Ronald Reagan is in favour of covert aid for UNITA rebels in Angola. …

… WWII: SA troops in North Africa flee before the onslaught of Field-Marshall Erwin Rommel. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 627 … Mpande, Zulu chief and half-brother of Dingane, dies at his kraal Nodwengu in Zululand.  …

… The National Working Committee of the ANC adopts a discussion document entitled …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Restitution of Land Rights Bill is passed by President Mandela and signed …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 566. … A ban on the publication of military involvements in Angola is imposed on South …

… The civilian government of Sudan is overthrown by the military; Ibrahim Abboud …

… Dr Theo Schumann, director of the Fuel Research Institute and the Weather Bureau, is …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 112 … Bophuthatswana’s minister of Health and Social Welfare, Mr L.G. Holela, resigns from …

… Johannes Henricus Brand, fourth president of the Orange Free State, is born in Cape Town. …

… Aid agencies are stripped by gunmen in Somalia on the eve of US troop arrival. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 157 … The regular railway service between the capital of the ZAR, Pretoria, and Lourenço Marques starts. …

… Gen. Jan Kemp (74), SA warrior, politician and minister of defence, dies in Piet Retief. …

… SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa. …

… Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland (now Malawi) to secede from the Central African …

… This day sees the start of the first Test Cricket match between Zimbabwe and England. …

… is inaugurated, exactly eleven years after the laying of the corner stone. …

… Schalk Burger opens the Voortrekker Museum in the Church of the Covenant in Pietermaritzburg. …