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… A volcano erupts in eastern Zaire, spewing a plume of ash and lava into the …

… Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat, former president of Egypt, is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt. Date is given as 24 December by …

… is unveiled at the site of the Battle of Blood River in 1838. The Monument was opened on 26 November …

… (MK) is formed to "hit back by all means within our power in defence of our people, our future and our fr …

… Empress Eugenie keeps an all-night vigil at the spot in Zululand where her son, the Prince Imperial of France, was …

… the 22 year old Prince Imperial of France, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War when he and a Bri …

… In Egypt, a 32-year-old housewife is the first woman to file …

… Ciskei, claims to have put down the second coup attempt in the space of two weeks, with the assistance …

… a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make thei …

… hurl rocks at US forces and set tyre barricades ablaze in the belief that American troops shot to death …

… Rudolph de Wet (67), well-known leader of Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2, dies on his farm.  He was given …

… to the British Empire.   This date is given as 19 May in anothe …

… frees more than 22 000 detainees, most of whom were held in connection with the 1994 massacre of some 800 000 ethnic …

… The first 90-day detainees are held in South Africa. Some sources say that the first detainees …

… of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im …

… An amount of R1.3m is paid out in compensation to thirty-two South African seamen who lost …

… The ANC leader in the Kwazulu Natal midlands Sifiso Nkabinde is expelled …

… The house of Paul Kruger in Church Street West is declared a national monument. At the …

… assets of about R86bn, opens its first African branch in Joh …

… states that the country’s major parties are divided and in disarray and that the NRP could la …

… may be dated from this date, (or 28 March, as given in two other sources) when the Amersfoort , with some 170 slav …

… Pope John Paul II issues the 11th encyclical of his papacy in which he condemns abortion and euthanasia as crimes that …

… All twenty-three mineworkers in a lift of the Vaal Reefs gold mine are killed when they …

… Napier wants to cut off the Voortrekkers from the harbour in Port Natal and sends Capt. Smith with 125 men by land …

… of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im …

… The Union Jack is lowered for the last time in Africa on this day when the embattled ex-British colony of …

… At a summit meeting in Lusaka (14-16 April) the leaders of East and Central …

… Minutes of Plenary Meetings held in Geneva between 2 and 5 August 1988 between a South African …

… Tutu and Joseph Wing (honorary life Vice-President of the SA Council of Churches), of the Commission of Inquiry into … the SACC, including its management and functions, the ways in whih finance is obtained, for what purpose the money or …

… Party (SACP), Charles Nqakula, was born to a poor family in the Eastern Cape. Nqakula, like his peers,  developed political consciousness in the 1970's when he became political reporter for Imvo …