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… Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Britain says the regime is illegal. …

… Chief George Matanzima (82), a former prime minister of Transkei, dies at the Frontier Hospital in Queenstown. …

… The Rev. Daniël Stephanus Botha (75), moderator of the Cape Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Stellenbosch. …

… protests at the closing by President Paul Kruger of the Vaal River drifts. …

… Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo is appointed head of state following a non-commissioned officers coup in …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … relating to the basic conditions governing the seconding of judges. …

… A group of ultra right Whites storm 300 Black children in a park in …

… Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for October 1994, P 37033. … President F. W. de Klerk announces the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … (SAFF) is exposed as a government front financed out of public funds. …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: Vista. … Thombisile Ka Dinuzulu (Princess Constance), daughter of Zulu King Dinuzulu and …

… Human & Rousseau | Mayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, SA painter and mother of actress Jana Celliers, is born in Rustenburg, Tvl. …

… Kromdraai on the Witwatersrand as a digging by request of fifty-one diggers. …

… Act, 1998, providing for the expeditious adjudication of disputes concerning military institutions …

… military coup, Jerry Rawlings overthrows the government of President Hilla Limann in Ghana. …

… Commandant Andreas Theodorus Spies, founder of the short-lived Klip River Republic and Utrecht Republic, …

… 5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egypt …

… Lucas Manyane Mangope, president of the former homeland Bophuthatswana, is born in Motswedi, …

… Annual Conference of African National Congress (ANC) asks its National …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Ten people are killed in two attacks on homes of IFP supporting Lushaba and Cele families. …

… popular radio and TV sport commentator and actor, dies of cancer. …

… Jan F.E. Cilliers (70), SA poet of “Die Vlakte” and other poems, dies in Harrismith, OFS. …

… first civilian president in fifteen years, ending a string of disastrous military regimes. …

… de Villiers, organist and first South African composer of importance, is born in Paarl. …

… Dr Fred du Plessis, chairman of Sanlam, is killed in a motor accident in the Western Cape. …

… Jacob Theodoor Beelaerts van Blokland (54), co-founder of the Nederlandsch Zuid-Afrikaansche Vereeniging, dies. …

… SA signs an agreement concerning the status of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group to Namibia. …

… under Lord Roberts conquers the Boers in the battle of Driefontein. …

… as demonstrators which demand the re-incorporation of the nominally independent homeland …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … ’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV. …

… 4, creating a police service and granting policing powers of search and seizure, commences. …