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… visits Algeria in an effort to improve relations between the two countries. It is the first off …

… The Indicator Project, based at the University of Natal, says more than 4000 people have died …

… An expedition of seventy-one under August F. Beutler leaves the Castle at the Cape with eleven wagons and thirty-seven soldiers …

… Mandela of South Africa and President Chissano of the Republic of Mozambique and the pre …

… More than 200 of the Transvaal National Party vote on either Dr. Treurnicht or Mr. Botha’s interpretation of Party policy. The …

… Seven Africans are detained in the Transkei on an allegation of conspiracy to commit murder. Five are opposition members of the …

… Sack, S. (1988). The Neglected Tradition , Johannesburg: Johannesburg Art … SA artist, is born in Randfontein, Transvaal.   He was the first full-time student in the fin …

… Julius Gottlieb Jeppe, founder of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company that planned the first Johannesburg suburbs, is born in Ros …

… The Minister of Justice and the Police, Jimmy Kruger, states that a full-scale judicial …

… Fietas, Johannesburg: The area is officially named Pageview in honour of the then Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. J.J. Page. Up to t …

… Mr Mxolisi Mswela, national organiser of the Azanian Students’ Movement (AZASM) is arrested at his home and held under the Inte …

… The fifteenth Annual Conference of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) alters its …

… A report is released in London about the disappearance of the Waratah between Durban and Cape Town with 211 passengers …

… Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in …

… The Citizen reports that released ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, … and his wife, Winnie, were granted passports to visit the ANC lea …

… Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into …

… The Job Creation Trust, aimed at raising millions for the relief of unemployment, is launched by SA’s three major …

… The body of seventeen year old stowaway, Samuel Benjamin, found in the wheel-well of a British Airways aircraft in Los Angeles …

… Top leadership officials of the United Democratic Front (UDF) are arrested. Of the thirteen detained, six are to be charged for …

… of Railways H.W. Moffat visits Cape Town to discuss the building of Beit Bridge over the Limpopo Ri …

… date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African …

… jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | Meer, F. (ed)(1993). The Codesa file . Durban: Madiba Publishers, p. 33 | … Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They …

… Prime Minister Botha announces that general elections to the House of Assembly and the Provincial Councils will be held on 29 A …

… Prof. Ben Marais (89), one of the first persons to denounce apartheid from within the Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Pretoria. …

… Louis Schmidt (62), ex Springbok, captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team and the original ‘Blou Bul’ (Blue Bull), dies in …

… In the House of Assembly, twelve new nominated members are sworn … in. They include Professor Owen Horwood, former Leader of the …

… For the fifth time in a row a South African driver has won the Rotax Grand Final World karting championship in …

… are put into operation to save 435 trapped mineworkers at the Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free Stat …

… A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in …

… Cloete, P.G. (2000). The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology, Pretoria: Lapa. | … Anglo-Boer War 2: The second British offensive begins with a British invasion of the Orange Free State when almost 50,000 men a …