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… Boeing 727 with 158 people aboard crashes near the town of Souk al-Sabt, near Tripoli, killing all 158 people. (Mail & …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7, p. 485 … Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 654 … for the first time in South Africa, after the repeal of the law se …

… Verwey: New Dictionary of South African Biography … Johannes Nkosi, martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa, whose death is annually commemorated by the …

… During the night of 18-19 December, four explosions occur at the Koeberg …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 553. … gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement …

… Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently …

… A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the ANC in 1949, is born in Th …

… (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f …

… Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of …

… Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … In the wake of strikes in Natal in February, The Guardian publishes a …

… The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to …

… Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in …

… The farm Lang Leegte (of which the suburb Langlaagte now forms part) where the …

… £100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which …

… Frans Erasmus (38), Springbok prop of Eastern Province, is killed in a car accident, 100 m from …

… The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in …

… measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … pays a two-day visit to South Africa at the invitation of Har …

… being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr …

… being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr …

… Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm …

… Victoria is born in London at Kensington Palace. As queen of the British Empire, she reigned over the colonies in …