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… Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, dies …

… Nicholas Edward Brown (85), expert on SA plants, dies in Surrey, England. He never visited SA because of poor …

… announces it will join with the African National Congress in opposing the White-led gove …

… Dr Jean Benjamin, Deputy Minister of Social Development in the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born. …

… Hiemstra opens the Castle of Good Hope military museum in Cape Town, reflecting various aspects of military history s …

… are plunged into darkness when an electrical sub-station in Hursthill near the Helen Joseph Hospi …

… kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later. …

… Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as …

… seventy-third birthday that the South African Ambassador in London, Dr. Hilgard Mulle …

… The General Assembly, in resolution 2505 (XXIV), welcomes the Lusaka Manifesto on …

… officers standing trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house in Bulawayo are sentenced to death. …

… government explaining the need for concentration camps in South Afr …

… Party officially comes into being at a one-day conference in Johannesburg attended by some 200 delegates from th …

… Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, announces in the House of Commons that the British government has …

… The Security Council, in resolution 182(1963), calls upon all States "to cease …

… bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were …

… rejects President Paul Kruger’s pleas for official aid in South Africa against the British. …

… effort to allow American singer Paul Simon to testify in the Allan Boesak trial fails, because of a legal loophole. …

… expressing the opinion that the treatment of Indians in Sou …

… The Transitional Executive Council has its first meeting in Cape Town and adopts a resolution of the Multi-party …

… opens the first emergency session of Parliament to be held in peacetime and promises action against any …

… is the country’s first democratically elected president in over fo …

… President Nelson Mandela arrives in the United Arabian Emirates as guest of honour at the …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 267. … Twelve people are killed in Kathlehong, East Rand, as a result of the bloody feud …

… of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen …

… Britain grants self-government to the Transvaal Colony in South Africa. Several sources state that the Orange River …

… of Whaling (as amended), to which SA is a party, is signed in Washington, USA. …

… offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in South Africa …

… Six injured South African survivors of the tsunami in Thailand arrive at Lanseria airport on board a rescue …

… Justice Coetzee in the Rand Supreme Court refuses to lift an order barring …