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… Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria …

… to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa …

… Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for April, p. 38851. … Africa, whilst Cote d’Ivoire announces the establishment of full dipl …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1 , Pretoria: HSRC, p. 241. … Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in …

… Frere meets the Transvaal Boers assembled in support of their claim to independence. He promises them complete …

… Zimbabwean vice-president whose son has recently died of HIV/AIDS, claims the disease is a "Whit …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Mahlangu, executed 6 April 1979 in Pretoria on two counts of murder and buried in Atteridgeville because police …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The Chairman of the opposition Democratic Party in the Transkei, K.M. …

… De Villebois-Mareuil with full military honours. 1500 men of the L …

… role in persuading Libya to hand over two suspects accused of placing a …

… Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.2 , Pretoria: Vista. … Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan …

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).  Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball … Maxwell Mamase, MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, is born in Peddie, …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 11. … The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Five members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are sentenced to …

… A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and …

… Tshwete, in co-operation with the National Commissioner of the SAPS, launches a …

… Author, educationist and social worker and later ANC member of parliament, Ellen Kuzwayo, becomes the first Black woman …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 199 … The battle of Gingindlovu during the Anglo-Zulu War takes place.   The …

… Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether …

… Africa’s corporate catering market, takes over the bulk of Telkom’s …

… Africa’s corporate catering market, takes over the bulk of Telkom’s …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 113. … the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a …

… Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria …

… is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa. …

… The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered …

… United Nations conference on poverty announces the launch of the World Trade University, a new university to give the …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Elvis Rathogwa, chair of FAWU shop stewards’ council, disappears in Wynberg. The …

… School start boycotting classes in protest against the use of Afrikaans in education. The unrest sp …

… The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the "young and …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 11, p. 163. … Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg, president of the ZAR for seven months, is born in the Uitenhage …