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… Violence erupts in the Black South African township of Sebokeng, 48 hours after police and troops swamped the area and made hun …

… In a precedent-setting judgment, a full Bench of the Cape High Court rules in favour of the SABC’s request to televise Mark Tha …

… The PAC appoints V. Make as its new chairman and H. Isaacs to replace the assassinated Mr. Sibeko as its Director of Foreign Af …

… United Nations (UN) forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking north …

… According to the Washington Post, South Africa is one of the countries most affected by HIV and AIDS. About 4.7 …

… Gen. Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, chief commandant of the Free State forces during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born on the farm Leeuwkop …

… SA signs treaty with Spain for the prevention of double taxation on income derived from the operation of ships or aircraft in i …

… The General Laws Amendment Bill of 1966 is published. The bill entitles police officers to detain up to fourteen …

… The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCL) states crime has gone far enough, and the government has to pull up its soc …

… The Directors of the Dutch East India Company (Heeren XVII or Lords Seventeen) …

… Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade’ by Kick Off for …

… Document 72 - “A landmark in South Africa’s History: The Sixth National Conference of the South African Communist Party”, International Bulletin, …

… FM Bekker and Lieutenant RM du Plooy, serving with the SAAF Cheetah Squadron in the Korean War, are killed in action …

… The ANC, in an emergency meeting, calls for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and …

… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … after attacks by armed impis leaving an Inkatha rally in the township. Coleman gives the num …

… Gas belching from the volcanic Lake Nyos in the remote mountains of Cameroon kills more than 1,200 people …

… The United States and Somalia sign an agreement giving US naval and air forces access to military facilities in the East Africa …

… of South West Africa, and subsequently charged with being the chairman of the Yu …

… Martins, artist known for her queer sculptures at the Owl House in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda dies in h …

… and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co …

… Friends Of The Earth offers to pay for Environment Minister Michael Meacher to attend the Earth Summit in South Africa after re …

… The first electric tram service in Cape Town is officially inaugurated by Lady Sivewright, when she starts the first tram on it …

… The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in …

… The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t …

… The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 …

… Herero Revolt: Von Estorff and Von der Heyde defeat the Ovaherero in the battle of Omatupa and prevent them from escaping in a …

… Germany apologises for the massacre of some 65 000 Hereros in South-West Africa (Namibia) by their soldiers during the 1904 reb …

… The first of the four Old Mutual Soweto Marathon Schools Challenge races …

… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2:  End of the ‘first De Wet hunt’. De Wet’s entire force crosses the unoccupied Olifants Nek Pass near Rusten …

… During a visit to Paraguay by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (13-18 Aug.), four agreements …