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… Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … Eleven members of the ANC Youth League die in Nquthu in an IFP attack on the home of ANC supporting chief Molefe. …

… Disturbances break out in the Black townships of Port Elizabeth and police open fire on rioting crowds. Tensions rise in the ar …

… Judge M.T. (Theunie) Steyn, judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa, is born on the farm Onze …

… declaration of intent with Flanders; signs agreement with the government of France on co-operation in the fields of ed …

… The great tank battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa rages unabated in World War 2. The South Africans, outnumbered by their Ge …

… Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in …

… Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever …

… are issued to all magistrates in Zululand to assemble the chiefs in their areas, to explain the new poll-tax law. …

… Laban Nkete (36), member of the SA marathon team that competed in the IAAF World Championships in Edmonton, Canada in 2001, is …

… The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and …

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

… Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu …

… In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen …

… Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the brave Danie Theron scout corps in Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders …

… WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde …

… Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on …

… President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the …

… commanders are being investigated for sexual charges in the DRC by either the United Nation …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Salisbury, British premier, rejects the offer of Pres. McKinley of America to act as mediator in the war …

… (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of …

… The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to …

… and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C …

… £100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban. …

… Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt …

… Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, on board the Saint Gabriel, and tasked with finding a sea route to India and the Orient, dr …

… A protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, …

… Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure, …

… On a meeting, twelve days after the first one on which was decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name De Burger is decide …

… Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near …

… Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric …