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… Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of adventure books (i.e. King Solomon’s Mines) who worked in …

… is proclaimed as a public gold field after the discovery of gold in the Sela …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 5, p. 524. … King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops.   Another …

… South Africa enters the ranks of the world’s oil-producing countries when oil for …

… Napier annexes Natal for Britain. It became a district of the Cape Colony on 31 May 1844. (Muller: 500 Years: a hist …

… The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, …

… The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act is passed by the British Parliament. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the …

… as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … banned as an unlawful organisation under the Suppression of Communism Act. It is an autonomous Sout …

… South African Institute of Race Relations. (1990). Race Relations Survey 1989/90 , Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, p. 89 | https://www.news24.co.za … Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The …

… 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, is born in Newton Stewart, Ireland …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d …

… finds Sisulu and other accused not guilty on a charge of High Treason, in the special court in Pretoria They are …

… the British under Baden-Powell because he was found guilty of stea …

… About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in …

… Hanning Speke, British explorer who discovered the origin of the Nile and the first European to see Lake Victoria, is …

… held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 2 …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 221. … Pieter Gysbert van Noodt  (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted …

… Secretary for War, St. John Broderick, tells the House of Commons that every effort is being made …

… The three villages clustered about the mouth of the Buffalo: East London West Bank; East London East Bank, …

… Dr Anita Worrall, wife of Democratic Party co-leader Denis Worrall, and fifty-four …

… In return for the release of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kenyan African National Union (ZANU) …

… General Jan Christiaan Smuts, in charge of British, South African and Indian troops in Kenya, finally …

… What is officially described as the first meeting of its kind, the Prime Minister holds a one-day conference …

… empty white school places: In 1986 there was a shortage of 193,000 places in black schools. …

… Draft position paper on the ideologies of Pan Africanism and Black Consciousness as they have …

… Our call is theological: Address to the National Summit of the Historic Black Churches, Howard Inn, Washington DC on …