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… Joseph Kabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC. Kabila is the country’s first democratically elected president in over …

… The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s …

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

… Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials open the floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and …

… Brink, E. (1999). 1899: The Long March Home: a little-known incident in the Anglo-Boer War, Cape Town: Kwela | Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa. … Anglo-Boer War 2: After the closure of the mines more than 7 000 Black mineworkers, …

… Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki says the deadline for the new constitution will slip again, which leads to a new …

… Cosatu and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) are to table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Develo …

… Dr Desmond Tutu receives the Officer of the French Legion of Honour award from Pres. Jacques Chirac …

… SA, decide to implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern sectio …

… The SAPS becomes the first police force in Africa to launch a missing children …

… Nelson Mandela writes a letter in which he states the famous words: "The struggle is my life. I will co …

… In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime. The nation’s …

… International Conference on the Educational Needs of the Victims of Apartheid in South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris …

… Dr Izak David du Plessis, author, poet and chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Philipstown. …

… The Harmful Business Practices Act of 1988 is gazetted ‘to provide for the prohibition or control of certain business practices …

… African and some other delegates walk out of the International Labour Conference in Geneva when delegates of the Government and …

… Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to advise the dissatisfied burghers on how to be …

… The first joint debate involving all members of all three Houses of the tricameral Parliament takes place, when a joint sitting …

… Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1 …

… Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1 …

… WWII: The Second South African Division under Major-General H.B. Klopper surrenders and the German force under Gen. Rommel capt …

… Brink, E. (1999). 1899: The Long March Home: a little-known incident in the Anglo-Boer War, Cape Town: Kwela. … The Star newspaper mentions that hundreds of Black people are leaving the Witwatersrand, especially for Natal, and calls it an …

… The US shuts down its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, after a terrorist threat. The new embassy building opened March 3 2002, after …

… The government’s White Paper on the Riekert Report accepts that existing laws enforcing …

… Sam Kahn announces in Parliament that the Communist Party of South African has disbanded. The announcement is made a few days b …

… Barend Bartholomeus Keet, one of the first five translators of the Bible in Afrikaans, is born in Alice, Eastern Cape. …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2:  The hopes of certain Blacks that the harsher Republican laws affecting Blacks will be repealed …

… Renewed rioting occurs in the Cape (18-19 June). Criminal elements in the Coloured community are blamed. Official figures repor …

… The Minister of Justice and Police, J.T. Kruger, announces … his decision to appoint a one-man judicial commission in the person …

… On the anniversary of the Soweto uprising, police bar forty-seven local and …