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… The first Regional Dispute Resolution Committee was established in Natal in terms of the National Peace Accord signed on 14 Sep …

… College (later Grey University College and still later the University of the Free State) dies in …

… Peter (Petrus) K. Masiza, teacher and later priest in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, dies in Tsomo, Eastern Cap …

… Angola gains independence from the colonial ruler Portugal with Dr Agostinho Neto as president and is known as the People’s Rep …

… The Minister of Finance, Senator Owen Horwood, announces the government is to spend an additional R250 m. on low-cost …

… SA aviation dies in Port Elizabeth.  He earned a D.S.O. in the Battle of the Somme …

… Nigerian officials warn the United States not to try to capture ousted Liberian leader Charles Taylor, thought to be the target …

… The multilateral Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in Their Natural State, …

… King Hassan launches the ‘Green March’ with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran, crossing into Weste …

… rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns in an attack on the luxury cruise liner Seabourn Spirit off the coast …

… The amending bill on the control of tobacco products is approved in SA, making it …

… The Sunday Independent reports that at least 1,2 million Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa during the past three years, bri …

… The Free State cricket team achieves the highest fourth innings ever in SA provincial cricket by …

… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … Ten people die in an attack by the IFP on the launching of an ANC branch in Appelbosch, Natal North …

… Pandemonium breaks out inside the Big Top Arena at Carnival City when angry boxing fans protest the dubious verdict, which favo …

… Breyton Paulse is included after first being omitted in the Springbok team for the test against England on 20 November, after a …

… The P.K. le Roux Dam (now Vanderkloof Dam), an integral part of the Orange River development project to provide electric …

… Long, Herbert Hull and David Lewis, strikers during the revolt, are hung in the Central Prison in Pretori …

… Sir Andrew Smith, explorer and founder of the museum now known as the South African Museum, is born in Roxburgshire, England. …

… The Defence Minister denies that South Africa has sent troops to Malawi to quell the security threat on Malawi’s southern borde …

… (2004). Milestones, The Star, 4 December. … R.C. Dryer is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of …

… The discovery of the oldest complete fossilised hominid or human-like skeleton …

… border post opens. Tourists can now travel through the Kruger National Park to Mozambique. The border post is part of …

… The government moves ANC leader Nelson Mandela from the private clinic in Cape Town, where he has been recovering …

… The US state department says it hopes South Africa’s withdrawal from Angola will be followed by the withdrawal of all foreign f …

… Gé Korsten, popular SA singer, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to SA at the age of nine years. …

… Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (later …

… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) … celebrates its 18th anniversary with a goal to become the first union forma …

… The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a …

… starts celebrating World Aids Day, to be marked on the first of December each year, when the Department …