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… Taliep Petersen, one of South Africa’s most popular theatre personalities, is shot …

… The United Nations General Assembly adopts a total of eighteen resolutions on the situation in South Africa and …

… The General Assembly appeals for assistance to families of persons persecuted by the South African Government for …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 529. … Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) commits its first acts of violence, when several buildings in Durban, Port Elizabeth …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The second Republican invasion of the Cape Colony starts under Commandant P.H. Kritzinger …

… William Bews, SA botanist and expert on different species of grass, is born on the Orkney Islands. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Three offices of the PFP are petrol-bombed in Johannesburg. The South …

… Robert Gordon, who named the Orange River after the Prince of Orange in 1779, arrives in South Africa. …

… rugby team beats the Lions in the first test match of the series on Newlands 26-22. …

… rugby team beats the Lions in the first test match of the series on Newlands 26-22. …

… first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes …

… Union of South Africa | https://africanhistory.about.com/ | … is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, …

… Marines evacuate 900 civilians from Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, wracked by looting and violence after a …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Minister of Justice announces that the Christian Institute has been …

… warplanes bomb a military airstrip on the outskirts of Asmara, taking its 2-week-old offensive to the Eritrean …

… ’A Document To Create a Climate of Understanding’, Document forwarded by Nelson Mandela to …

… Youth, Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League. 10 September 1944 …

… A Woman’s Place Is In Her Organisation by members of the United Women’s Congress (SPEAK), 11 – 13 August 1989, …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Evidence of the government’s complicity in the abortive coup plot …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of SA’s greatest working-class martyrs, is arrested …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 578 | … Lord Selborne (William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selbourne) is appointed High Commissioner for South Africa …

… figure in Transvaal history and commander-in-chief of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, is born ne …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Council censures South Africa for its flagrant defiance of Council Resolution 245 (1968) calling fo …

… with Swaziland on the establishment and functioning of the joint Water Commission and the developme …

… his first padrao (stone cross) at Kwaaihoek near the mouth of the Bushman’s River …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Paramount Chief Stella Sigcau of Transkei tells the Assembly that legislation is to be …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 655. … Five rebels of the Slachter’s Nek Rebellion, Cornelius Faber, Hendrik …

… in Equatorial Guinea, including the alleged leader of the advance party, Nick du Toi …

… the United Nations Security Council, following the banning of organisa …

… ”The City of Pretoria no longer exists”, a spokesman for the African …