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… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Jabulani Maluleke, secretary of the COSAS Soweto branch, disappears after allegedly being …

… Boutros-Ghali congratulates South Africa on the occasion of the country’s first democr …

… Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, is born in Hoyland, …

… Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in …

… time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 49 | Wallis, … The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after …

… Olof Martin(i) Bergh, secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, is …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o …

… Olof Martin(i) Bergh, secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, is …

… The Director of Education in the Transvaal, Dr John Adamson, opens the …

… Abraham Jacobus Kotzé de Klerk, missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ceylon, is born in Garies, …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter …

… Following the discovery of coelacanths in Jesser Canyon off Sodwana Bay, …

… Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA. …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6, p. 576. … Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town. …

… negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener …

… public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale. …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter …

… Leaders of the Neo-Destour (New Constitutional) Party, the Tunisian …

… Verwey: New Dictionary of South African Biography … Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in …

… in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’. …

… The National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and the South African …

… A summit meeting of nine southern African countries in Lusaka decide to form …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 360. … Service is established in Pretoria under the department of irrigation. C.M. Stewart becomes chief meteorologi …

… The Director of Education in the Transvaal, Dr John Adamson, opens the …

… country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting. …

… The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian …