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… An Ethiopian plane bombs an Eritrean village full of homeless people, killing at least five civilians and …

… martial law. Some 1 000 men are mobilised under command of Col D …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6, p. 513 … mechanical engineer who built ‘Long Cecil’ for the defence of Kimberley during the s …

… should retain sanctions against South Africa and warns of mass …

… The Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, discloses in Parliament that during …

… jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 578. … The South African Department of Home Affairs refuses to grant Breyten Breytenbach a visa …

… Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, leader of the opposition PFP, resigns from parliamentary politics …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … George Shabangu of KwaNdebele disappears, allegedly escaping from police …

… Sprigg forms his first ministry in the Cape at the request of the governor, Sir Bartle Frere. …

… for his country’s role in the 1961 assassination of then-Congolese leader Patr …

… The Goldstone Commission of Inquiry has its first hearing on the South African Defence …

… The International Court of Justice announces that in the South West Africa cases …

… Uys Krige, author, dramatist, poet and five times winner of the “Akademieprys” award for translated literature, is bor …

… Belgium grounds a planeload of President Mobutu Sese Seko’s newly printed money in a bid …

… Hausa and Yoruba rocks Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, killing 100 people and forcing thousands …

… Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, community leader, member of the Cape City Council (1904-1940) and Cape Provincial …

… diamond trader and auctioneer in Kimberley and discoverer of the coalfields near Vereeniging, is born in W …

… Rovina Petronella Pienaar, wife of the Afrikaans author Sangiro (A.A. Pienaar), is found …

… The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally …

… prescribed by Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the minister of health, for fig …

… Dr. Nicolaas Diederichs, minister of finance, is elected as the National Party’s candidate to …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Opening the first Legislative session of the Transkei-Legislative Assembly, President Swart says …

… Five days after Italy captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Mussolini annexes Ethiopia and announces that …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Chief Leabua Jonathan, leader of the Basutoland National Party, which is to form the …

… A combined force of British soldiers and armed Blacks attempts to surround …

… WWII: East Africa. Naval bases of Antsirañana and Diego Suarez, Madagascar are surrendered …

… The ‘Volksraad’ of the ZAR gathers for the last time in Pretoria and is …

… Helen Zille is elected with overwhelming majority as head of the country’s official opposition, the Democratic …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … London to begin a controversial twenty-two-match tour of South Africa and Rhodesia. …

… United States President Bill Clinton announces the doubling of $600 million United States assistance to South Africa over …