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… ten months after Die Burger, and is the second publication of …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 10, p. 6 … The Rev. Erasmus Smit ordains himself as minister of the “reizende gemeente der Gereformeerde Kerk naar Port …

… Nasser threatens to close the Tiran Strait, on the Gulf of Aqaba, to Israeli shipping. …

… American Secretary of State Hay warns Moroccan authorities that Perdicaris must …

… Jaycox, announces that the Bank has $1 billion worth of development projects in the pipeline …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … are shot dead in a car outside Mbabane, Swaziland. Names of p …

… Legislation for three major components of the government’s plans to defuse Black grievances is …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The leadership of the Herstigte Nasionale Party is relinquished by its …

… premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev announces a loan of 227 million dollars to the United Arab Republic (Egypt and …

… is found guilty on all charges, including the murder of teenage activist …

… Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in …

… Pierre-Claver Rwangabo, the governor of Rwanda’s southern province Butare, is assassinated in an …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 383 … Enoch Mgijima, Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, dies in …

… A nationwide strike shuts down most of Zimbabwe’s economy and the government threatens to punish …

… President Samora Machel of Mozambique closes his frontier with Rhodesia, seizes all …

… on the Congo River, drowning at least 147 in the Republic of Congo. …

… Congress (ANC) elects Nelson Mandela as Deputy President of the organisation. It also announces its decisi …

… Effectively revalidates the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act, which has been cha …

… rebels, claiming they oppose American and British support of the Tutsi government in Rwanda, abduct eight foreign …

… A delegation of the Special Committee against Apartheid begins its ten-day …

… and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut  (AH …

… The Volksraad of the South African Republic  (ZAR) passes a law denying the …

… Certificates of citizenship in the ‘homelands’ are to be issued by seven …

… Coloured Persons Representative Council will be comprised of forty elected and tw …

… Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed after enlarging the Senate …

… in the first presidential elections after fifteen years of military rule, but the resu …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Amos Boshomane, unionist (SEAWU) of Germiston, is shot dead after having survived an earlier …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To …

… Amendment to the constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote. …