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… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Pedi Chief Sekhukhune’s followers send a force of 140 against Chief Kgolane and his followers in their …

… Rankin: Images of Wood, p. 114 … Probable birth date of Moses Kottler, SA sculptor, in Joniskis, Lithuania.   He …

… Etienne Leroux (Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux), SA author of, inter alia, ‘Magersfontein, o Magersfontein!’ is born in …

… Children’s Day celebrations are scheduled for a number of locations across the country today. President Thabo Mbeki …

… Moi becomes Kenya’s second president, following the death of Jomo Kenyatta on 22 August 1978. …

… from ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela to the people of South Africa 30 December 1991 …

… Volksraad passes a resolution deploring the decision of the Orange Free State Volksraad to reject proposals for a …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 467 … Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of NUMSA, and four others, are arrested for allegedly running …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 360 … Manpower Commission (NMC) starts hearing evidence as part of its investigation into the consolidation and amendmen …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … Transvaal, with seventeen defendants sharing a total of 147 years’ impri …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 218. … line in SA, between Durban and the Point, a distance of 3,2 km, is officially opened. …

… A Conference of Editors in Pretoria agrees to the terms for a voluntary …

… returns by boat to Natal after his ten-days horse-ride of 960km to Grahamstown. …

… Somalia’s foreign minister and a representative of the faction that controls the country’s capital sign an …

… Emzini Wezinsizwa actor Maxwell Mlilo (Ngconde), dies of diabetes in Helen Joseph Hospital, Johannesburg. (2006). Ml …

… Angola (UNITA, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebels and A …

… Under leadership of Dr Abel Coetzee, the Genootskap vir Afrikaanse Volkskunde …

… Verwey: New Dictionary of South African Biography … Cornelius, full-time organiser and general secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, dies in Johannesbu …

… Gerrit Adriaan Middelberg, pioneer in the field of railway systems in SA, is born in Boskoop, the Netherlands. …

… at a press conference in Pretoria, the need for a series of confidence-building measure …

… The plan of diamond smugglers to smuggle diamonds using a pigeon, is …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … rejects two crucial recommendations that employers of illegal labour, an …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  “Steinaecker’s Horse”, an irregular unit of about fifty mercenaries in British service, using Black …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Start of the ‘scorched earth’ policy.   Lord Roberts issues a …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … is inaugurated. The Council, under the Chairmanship of David Thehahadi, is given considerable powers.  …

… against Apartheid organised by the Workers’ Group of the ILO Governing Body, in cooperatio …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 645; Dictionary of South African Biography, v. 3, p. 423 … André Huguenet, stage-name of Gerhardus Petrus Borstlap, SA actor, producer and author, …

… Second Conference of Independent African States at Addis Ababa (15-21 June) …

… The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress adopts a resolution …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … At a meeting between President Nelson Mandela and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Yasser Arafat, the …