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… Laurie Nathan, national organiser of the End Conscription Campaign, 1984-86, is born in Sea …

… rights to all races. It incorporates the broad principles of t …

… A freak storm, one of the worst in living memory, hits Johannesburg …

… Application in Venda of Certain South African Laws Relating to Transition to …

… Commander Simon van der Stel camps on the bank of the Eerste River and calls the place Stellenbosch. …

… Albert Camus, French philosopher and receiver of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, is born in Algeria. …

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

… by the General Assembly under resolution 1761 (XVII) of November 6, 1962 …

… Institutions Act No 135, providing for the establishment of a National Peace Secretariat and local dispute resol …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 166 | … Andries Pretorius is appointed Commandant-General of the Voortrekkers, to lead a commando two days later …

… Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian …

… Forces of the White Rhodesian government attacks nationalist …

… Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.   …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective …

… Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … a front organisation founded by the former Department of Inf …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … It is announced that all Cabinet Ministers on the boards of newspaper groups are to resign their directorships. …

… Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Thomas Mtobi Mapikela, businessman, politician and speaker of the African National Congress (ANC) who was the first …

… Olof Martini Bergh (63), secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … elections to the forty-five seats for elected members of the Transkei Legislative Assembly take place. …

… Nadine Gordimer, SA author and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, is born in Springs. …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, is born in …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 380. … General Lucas Johannes Meyer, later president of the New Republic (Nieuwe Republiek) established on …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Ten MK members are killed when an alleged member of MK pulls a grenade at a party in Sebokeng, PWV. …

… V calls for the "total and unconditional" withdrawal of US military bases, and French and Spanish troop …

… launches the National Craft Development Initiative as part of its National Development Strategy …

… president, Liamine Zeroual, is proclaimed winner of the November 16 election, boycotted by most ma …

… assembly chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing into sexual harassm …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: President Paul Kruger of the ZAR and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession …