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… Angola says its troops have withdrawn from Huambo after two months of fighting with rebels that …

… political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet …

… Bambata Rebellion: A message is received from Sigananda informing Col McKenzie that he wishes to …

… military museum, Pretoria, mainly illustrating the period from the Great Trek to 1902, is opened by Preside …

… Brand, aviation pioneer who completed the first flight from London to Cape Town with Sir Pierre …

… Ambrose Reeves, resigns after having been deported from South Africa in September 1960 for his stro …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders sei …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit …

… Hostel Dwellers Association, is gunned down after coming from a c …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … and Botswana agree to take steps preventing ANC operatives from using Botswana as a transit base into South Africa …

… and first mayor of Durban, is born in London.   He comes from a Huguenot family, origi …

… (O.B.)and world renowned wrestler, who escaped from police detention after …

… descendent of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England from 1 …

… ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die …

… Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the So …

… that Nelson Mandela will be released unconditionally from the Victor Verster prison in Paarl at 3 …

… Native Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is …

… Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally …

… the British Embassy in Luanda, Angola, seeking sanctuary from the A …

… the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an …

… extension are proposed at a conference of delegations from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Orange Fr …

… government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow …

… to the farm Goedgevonden where people who were removed from the land thirteen years ago …

… of the Gold Coast (becomes Ghana in March 1957) from Britain are approved by the Colonial Secretary. …

… Lindiwe Chibi (31), dies from pneumonia at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. The …

… Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to …

… Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to …

… Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan …

… Mrs Helen Suzman, PFP MP, announces her retirement from Parliament after having served as MP for Houghton, …

… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme …