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… phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc …

… Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Erasmus Commission exonerates P.W. Botha and all members of his government from having had any prior …

… The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Act 1 of 1999, comes into effect. It requires all State departments …

… in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of …

… in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa …

… Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion …

… The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping …

… An historic four hour meeting is held between the Council of Mining Unions, representing White miners; the NUM; Mr …

… WWII: East Africa. The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, takes Amba Alagi …

… British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack …

… Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the …

… The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri …

… War 2:  After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town. …

… Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa. …

… Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international …

… Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Petrus Vusi Mahlangu of Vlaklaagte No. 2 disappears after being shot at a taxi …

… A powerful bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Meadowlands, Soweto, …

… War, is born. Nurses in SA undertake to honour the oath of Florence Nighting …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … their respective territories are not to be used for acts of terrorism aga …

… new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica …

… Gunmen storm the military compound of President Eyadema in Loma, Togo, and kill his top military …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Dr. Connie Mulder, in effect, accuses President Vorster of lying and states that the decision to found and finance …

… Scores of people are believed injured when police fire teargas into …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 574 … Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 6, p. 310 … Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo.  He was born in …

… Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in …