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Full list- A history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Hector Pieterson
- Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
- Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
- Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
- The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
- The Black Sash: A History of Transformation
- Khotso Seatlholo
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EventWinnie Mandela is banished to Brandfort
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
EventSouth Africa’s new constitution is approved
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
EventEmperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne
EventWorld Press Freedom Day
EventThe Congo Free State is established by King Leopold of Belgium
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
EventLeague of Nations is formed
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
EventANC leader, Oliver Tambo, dies after a long illness
EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
EventBambatha Rebellion
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
EventEarly jewellery, a set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old, is discovered in South Africa
EventJacob Zuma, Former President of South Africa and of the ANC, is born.
EventNelson Mandela admits to the torture of dissident guerrillas
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
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