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… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC | Wallis, F. … journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … It is officially conceded that the majority of members elected to the first Transkei Legislative …

… crashes into market stalls at Boende, Democratic Republic of Con …

… Gen. Magnus Malan and nineteen others with the murders of t …

… English archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the grave of Tutankamen, Egyptian king who died 3 276 years ago. In …

… Johannes Jacob van Tonder, founder of the FAK (Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge) is …

… President David Dacko of the Central African Republic is ousted in a military coup …

… Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 4, p. 310. … Franz (Hans) Endler, composer, director and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, is born in Mohrau, …

… leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to witness the final signing of a peace accord between t …

… The Nigerian civil government of President Shehu Shagari is overthrown in a fourth, …

… spokesman Yusuf Mohamad Ismail reports that the number of Somali’s killed by the tidal waves that battered …

… Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are …

… years and continues to be restricted to the small town of Brandfort. …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 291 | … leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen of the Chartered Comp …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball; CV … Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the “Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold” for his …

… Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Greylingstad takes place when Commandant Buys attacks the …

… Hendrik Swellengrebel (60), only governor of the Cape who was born at the Cape, dies in Utrecht, the …

… | Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed ., Pretoria: Academica, p. 23 … van Riebeeck writes in his diary that the first two pounds of butter was churned at the Cape. …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Tweefontein, (also Groenkop or Krismiskop) General De Wet …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 67. … Johannes (Piet) Potgieter, second son and sixth child of Andries Hendrik Potgieter and in 1853 elected chief …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, dies in Johannesb …

… Pieter Cornelis Schoonees, lexicographer and member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, is …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. … Advisor to the President’s Office (1999) and director of the Women’s Development Bank, is born i …

… strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances. …

… he is either suspending or forcibly retiring 23 officers of the South African Defence F …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Emmerich Felix Januarius (Olaf) Andresen, composer, mainly of light music, dies in Kempton Park, Tv …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 66. … Hendrik Potgieter, who led the trekkers at the Battle of Vegkop against the Matabele (Ndebele), and …

… Committee survive an assassination attempt in a bombing of the party headquarters in Harare. Sev …