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… IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi reveals at the funeral of his daughter, Princess Mandisi Sibukakonke, that she died …

… Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … is announced in Pretoria (7-8 August) by the Minister of Bantu Administration and by the Minister o …

… War 2:   Lord Kitchener publishes his most famous of what the Boers call his ‘paper bombs’, proclaiming that …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Tygerpoort (Venterskroon) takes place between the British …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 636 … The Battle of Muizenberg takes place during the Napoleontic War when …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: Remnants of the notorious Steinaecker’s Horse, led by Capt. Francis …

… Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that …

… magnitude 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou …

… magnitude 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou …

… meetings between the SAG and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), broad agreement was reached that could lead …

… Security at the march is tight following threats of a right …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 10, p. 312 … SA botanist and educationist and appointed principal of the Huguenot University College in 1916, is born in …

… and declares null and void the new racist constitution of South Africa. It urges governments and o …

… and declares null and void the new racist constitution of South Africa. It urges governments and o …

… World War 2: East Africa. The Italian invasion of British Somaliland, which began on August 4, is complete. …

… The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen …

… as acting state president after the resignation of Pres. Botha the previous day. S …

… Nyangolo Nkomo, considered by many to be the true hero of the Zimbabwean independence struggle, returns to Harar …

… (Hennie) Roux, Afrikaans cultural leader and co-founder of the Rapportryersbeweging, is born on the farm La Mot …

… and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Hand …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 183 … Christiaan Afrikaner, son of Jonker Afrikaner and Nama chief, is killed in battle at …

… The SA rugby team wins their last Tri-Nations match of the season against Australia 10-9 in Newlands, Cape Town. …

… jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau | https://www.century-of-flight.net/ | https://www.andibradley.com/ … bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil …

… Charles Frederick Morris Saint, first professor of surgery at the Medical school in Cape Town, is born in …

… airline, Sun Air, discontinues its service and thousands of disappointed passengers have to acquire seats on ot …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Commission of Inquiry into Certain Organisations submits its final …

… African mineworkers’ strike, led by J.B. Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers’ Union, starts. About 60 000 …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  The rearguard of the Boer forces under De Wet fights a running battle with …

… SA author, i.a. “Die Stem”, advocate and editor of Het Zuid-Westen, is born in Ladismith, C.P. …