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… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in …

… Nelson Mandela admits that members of the ANC had tortured dissident guerrillas, but said the …

… Jan van Riebeeck requests in a letter to the Council of XVII (Lords 17) a salary increase and express his …

… The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands, defines the 1 …

… police must bring an end to Black squatters’ occupations of White-owned farms. …

… who is killed. Felix Malloum takes over at the head of a seven- …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is …

… Plans for independence of the Gold Coast (becomes Ghana in March 1957) from Britain …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … 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 …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … By this deadline for the receipt of applications for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 139 … a new state president, Mr Frank Ravele, after the death of Chief Patrick Mphephu in April. …

… Frederick Beyers Naude, who resigned as moderator of the Southern Transvaal Dutch Reformed Synod to take up the …

… Hospital. The actress, who played the character of  Doob …

… Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African …

… Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African …

… United African National Council has won fifty-one of the seventy-two seats available to Black candida …

… 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 …