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… Speech of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, at the National Assembly During the Debate on Budget Vote No. 2 10 JUNE 1997. …

… The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te …

… Prof. J.A. du Plessis, professor at the Potchefstroom Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in SA, is born in Rustenburg, …

… The Voortrekkers decide to call the first planned town in Natal, up to that time called …

… The Star, 21 October 2003. Milestones. … As a result of a crash on most of the world’s stock exchanges, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange overall index falls 328 …

… Lekganyane (first known as Talane Reuben), leader of the Zion Christian Church the Star with large support in u …

… is announced that Jacob Sello Selebi (Jackie) is appointed the new National Commissioner of the South African Police service …

… The new revised results of the 1996 census survey is announced, according to which SA …

… call for a national day of peaceful protest on the day of the coming municipal elect …

… Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in P …

… academic, ANC politician, Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, is bor …

… The Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel, which conducted the bulk of its work in 2000, identifies a number of …

… her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati …

… The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 …

… SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of …

… The Star, 30 October 2003. Milestones. … Heavy fighting breaks out in Luanda, Angola, between the government and Unita. The conflict rages for three days, claiming at l …

… Mr. James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, former President of the S.A. Coloured People’s Congress, dies at the Groote Schuur Hospital f …

… Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and troops push on towards the Suez canal, just twenty miles away. Israeli paratroopers …

… Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the Nama tribe in German South West Africa, dies in a skirmish with the Germans near Keetmanshoop, S …

… Gen. Constand Laubscher Viljoen, former head of the SADF and leader of the Vryheidsfront, is born in Standerton, Eastern Transv …

… The African National Congress Youth League is re-established in Soweto after a thirty-year absence from the South African polit …

… elections are held to elect segregated local authorities. The Black majority follow the call of anti-aparthe …

… The Attorney General of the Transvaal, Jacobus E. Nothling, announces that an inquest …

… The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid decides to issue an appeal to …

… Bishop Hamilton Mvumelwano, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and President of the SA Council of Chur …

… author J.M. Coetzee wins England’s prestige book prize, the Booker prize for fiction, for the second time, this t …

… jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | Kruger, S.J.P. (1902). The Memoirs of Paul Kruger: Four Times President of the South Africa-Republic, told by himself, ed. by … The siege of Makapan’s Cave takes place, after warriors of the Ndebele chief Makapan (Makôpane) murdered twenty-three …

… Nqetho, Qwabe chief, forces the Rev. J.W. Shepstone to abandon the Morley mission station. Nqetho was murdered in December …

… Col. Robert Gordon, explorer of the interior of South Africa, commits suicide because of his inability to prevent the British o …

… The Star, 24 October 2003. Milestones. … Union of Mineworkers’ leader Cyril Ramaphosa is awarded the Olof Palme prize for “courage and wisdom in the solidarity …