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… Gottlieb Wilhelm Anthonie van der Lingen (64), founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, dies in Paarl, Cape Colony. …

… Party (Reunited National Party), joining the followers of Dr. D.F. Malan and General J.B.M. Hertzog, is …

… Sir John Kotze, appointed Chief Justice of the South African Republic (ZAR) in 1881, is born in Cape …

… maize, now SA’s staple food, from the native population of Cuba. …

… his refusal to apologise to Britain for the assassination of Gener …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) (1999) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2, Pretoria: Vista. … activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde …

… President Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets with a group of Haitian legislators to negotiate an end to Haiti’s consti …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its …

… The Rev. Robert Shand, controversial Scottish clergyman of Tulbach, dies on the farm Rhenosterfontein at the Breede …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The first session of the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council is officially …

… Nearly 60% of South Africans think race relations are improving, …

… sex-slaves are freed. Superintendent Andre Neethling, head of the child protection unit in Gauteng, announces police have …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Minister of Justice, J.T. Kruger, says the PAC has launched two …

… Leaders of twenty political parties at the Multi-party Negotiating …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 304 … Students at the University of Bophuthatswana win a Supreme Court application to have …

… The controversial ANC manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality at Beaufort West, …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 253. … James Read, missionary of the London Missionary Society who clashed repeatedly with …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … and composer who was a founder member and first secretary of the Bantu Social …

… Briefing the media on the outcomes of the cabinet meeting on 7 December, government spokesperson …

… in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees. The team was delayed in …

… Sir De Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party opposition in SA, is born in Sea Point, …

… 1-2 against Brazil in a home game. (---(2004). ‘Footballer of the decade: Bafana Bafan …

… Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 268. … Beit (65), financier, philanthropist and younger brother of Alfred Beit, dies on his birthday in London. …

… together with John Edwards and T. Jenkins on the purchase of land at Thaba ‘ …

… Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi …

… Clarence Mlami Makwetu, former president of the Pan Africanist Congress, is born in Hoyita, in the …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 80 … Chief George Matanzima and former Transkei minister of finance, Mr Sidney Qaba, appear together in the Transkei …

… South Africa is expelled from the annual General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency, meeting in New …

… The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 616(VII) establishing …