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… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape. …

… United Nations (UN) General Assembly appoints Kofi Annan of Ghana to a five-year term as secretary-general, beginning …

… Southern African soccer team to win the African League of Champions, beating Ivory Coast’s AS …

… the UN special rapporteur on adequate housing, says most of those displaced by President Robert Mugabe’s May 20 …

… Rhodesia formally ends nearly ninety years of White minority rule and declares it will now be known as …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … in a White Paper plans to re-organise the administration of South-West Africa, which will give Pretori …

… Moslem, Jewish and Hindu faiths, decide at the end of …

… J.F. (Tom) Naudé (80), member of cabinet and acting SA state president in 1967 and 1968, …

… de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to …

… de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to …

… War 2: Pres. Kruger wires Pres. Steyn that only a handful of ZAR burghers are willing to continue the struggle. …

… annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, becomes a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. (Muller (ed): …

… Pretoria for Machadodorp, the newly declared capital of the ZAR.  He leaves his inva …

… The former United States of America (US) Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Cameron Hume, …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Head of the Security Police, General Venter, reports that nobody …

… gatherings in open-air public places if the Minister of Justice considers th …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 462 … first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t …

… The national department of transport launches the seven month Be Legal  campaign at …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v.10, p. 655. … The largest concentration of national monuments in the country, the thirty-two restored …

… in Africa (SCSA) asks the national Olympic committees of Belgium, Great Britain, Japan, the Neth …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 116 … Samuel Maharero, who succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 256 | The … the sea at Kayser’s Beach near East London, with the loss of twenty-five lives.  …

… Kat) Joubert, South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v.3, p. 585. … Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa. …

… to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been …

… Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports …

… Chief of the SA Air Force (SAAF) Lieutenant-General Carlo Gagiano …

… Joel Netshitenzhe confirms that Pretoria is still the name of the SA capital, not Tshwane. The metro counc …

… Robert McBride, high-ranking official in the SA Department of External Affairs, on the alleged ch …