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… The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month, …

… South Africa’s envoy to the United Nations, Les Manley, storms out of a Security Council meeting after accusing the council of …

… John Brebier, Presbyterian minister and a founder of the educational system in the Orange Free State, is born in Spurriemuir in …

… The Sowetan reports that Amos Boshomane, a shop steward of the Steel, Engineering and Allied Workers’ Union of South …

… Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been …

… Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from detention, together with nine …

… is arrested by magistrate Starrenburg because he compiled the petition for the Cape burghers against Governor W.A. van …

… Burne, J. (ed)(1989). Chronicle of the World, (Sl): Longman Chronicle | Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa | SA … History. (1999). Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902, Johannesburg: The Museum. … Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer general Piet Cronje surrenders with 3 919 men …

… An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead with Robert Salmond as captain, carrying reinforcements for the 8th Frontier War, runs …

… Condom use and multiple-drug "cocktails" have slowed the spread of Aids cases in certain African countries, the 12th …

… US scientists announce at the 12th annual Conference on Retrovirus and Opportunistic Infections in Boston the discovery of a ke …

… first prime minister and later president of Ghana, becomes the Leader of Government Business in the Gold Coast A …

… Dr Diederichs receives the unanimous vote of the Electoral College, consisting of members of both Houses …

… At the end of the third meeting between Mozambique and South Africa, in …

… Lord Charles Somerset (64), former governor at the Cape and direct descendent of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England from 1 …

… The Presidents of South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet in Cape Town. The five leaders exchange views on …

… Four people, including Jerry Richardson, coach of the Mandela United Football Club, are arrested at the home of Winnie Mandela …

… President Lennox Sebe of the Ciskei escapes an assassination attempt by elements in the Transkei Defence Force in an attempted …

… The Star, 18 Feb 2004. Milestones … The ANC national executive committee endorses the proposal of an interim government of national unity not …

… In a joint statement the leaders of seven Black ‘homelands’ set out the basis of a possible consensus solution for South Africa …

… Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in the par …

… The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its …

… Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot …

… The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hert …

… Joyce: The rise and fall of Apartheid … A newspaper reports that the South African government told the World Court in a letter that it is prepared to hold a …

… Several newspapers report that the University of Stellenbosch opened its two hostels on the Tygerberg campus to medical and den …

… (2005). Milestones, The Star , 26 January | Pakenham, T. (1991). The Scramble for Africa, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball | … The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc …

… SA signs protocol on cooperation between the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and the Ministry of External Affairs …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse, English nurse who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free Sate Republics during the South Afric …

… At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t …