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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR calls up the South African Republican Burgher Force.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bloemfontein the OFS Volksraad requests the ZAR to continue to pursue a peaceful solution, failing which,

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Johannes Scheepers, founder member of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) and organising secretary of the Oss

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Henry Brown Marshall asks Kidger Tucker to plan a new residential area for Johannesburg even before the planning of the mining

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Gen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal.

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A British company obtains the monopoly for the slave trade from Africa.

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Cornelis van Quaelbergen succeeds Zacharias Wagenaer as commander of the Cape.

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Armed militiamen have surged into a border area near a western village, where some of the first Darfur refugees attempting to r

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In the Athens Paralympic Games Natalie du Toit wins her fifth gold medal, the 50m freestyle, in a world record 29.52sec, after

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Former president Nelson Mandela is declared the ‘Greatest South African’ in a TV show that had the country nominate their 100 f

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Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na

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An ocean ferry owned and operated by Senegal capsizes off the coast of Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the Senegalese

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The National Conventional Arms Control Committee for the sale of arms gives approval to Rwanda. Only ‘defensive arms’ are said

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Eugène de Kock alleges that the Swedish premier Olaf Palme was shot in 1986 by a South African secret agent.

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A bilateral summit between delegations of the ANC and the South African Government, led respectively by Nelson Mandela and Pres

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Eleven people die in Gengeshe, near Richmond, Natal, when about thirty unknown attackers open fire on residents. Mandlenkosi

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The Hiemstra Commission of Inquiry says the Johannesburg City Council spent R1,8-million of ratepayers’ money on the unlawful s

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The Star reports that Roelf Meyer, deputy minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, identified fourteen urban areas,

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Indian and Coloured members walk out of Parliament in protest against the draft Group Areas Amendment Bill, the Free Settlement

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A conference on the plight of children under apartheid begins in Harare.

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The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, to which SA is a party, is signed in

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Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted.

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The Prime Minister tells the Cape Congress of the National Party that he is prepared to consider constructive suggestions for r

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Leaders of five black African nations decline to accept plan presented by Rhodesia’s Prime Minister Ian Smith to achieve black

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The Organisation of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) condemns the South African government’s plan for Black works councils.

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Meeka, SA gospel singer, is born.

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The United Nations General Assembly’s Political Committee decides to grant observer status to the ANC and the PAC. The South Af

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR calls up the South African Republican Burgher Force.

Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bloemfontein the OFS Volksraad requests the ZAR to continue to pursue a peaceful solution, failing which,

Johannes Scheepers, founder member of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) and organising secretary of the Oss

Henry Brown Marshall asks Kidger Tucker to plan a new residential area for Johannesburg even before the planning of the mining

Gen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal.

A British company obtains the monopoly for the slave trade from Africa.

Cornelis van Quaelbergen succeeds Zacharias Wagenaer as commander of the Cape.

Armed militiamen have surged into a border area near a western village, where some of the first Darfur refugees attempting to r

In the Athens Paralympic Games Natalie du Toit wins her fifth gold medal, the 50m freestyle, in a world record 29.52sec, after

Former president Nelson Mandela is declared the ‘Greatest South African’ in a TV show that had the country nominate their 100 f

Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na

An ocean ferry owned and operated by Senegal capsizes off the coast of Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the Senegalese

The National Conventional Arms Control Committee for the sale of arms gives approval to Rwanda. Only ‘defensive arms’ are said

Eugène de Kock alleges that the Swedish premier Olaf Palme was shot in 1986 by a South African secret agent.

A bilateral summit between delegations of the ANC and the South African Government, led respectively by Nelson Mandela and Pres

Eleven people die in Gengeshe, near Richmond, Natal, when about thirty unknown attackers open fire on residents. Mandlenkosi

The Hiemstra Commission of Inquiry says the Johannesburg City Council spent R1,8-million of ratepayers’ money on the unlawful s

The Star reports that Roelf Meyer, deputy minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, identified fourteen urban areas,

Indian and Coloured members walk out of Parliament in protest against the draft Group Areas Amendment Bill, the Free Settlement

A conference on the plight of children under apartheid begins in Harare.

The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, to which SA is a party, is signed in

The Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident is signed in Vienna.

Defence Act No 17, establishing a Ciskei defence force, commences.

Schools re-open, but 93,000 pupils continue to boycott classes.

Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted.

The Prime Minister tells the Cape Congress of the National Party that he is prepared to consider constructive suggestions for r

Leaders of five black African nations decline to accept plan presented by Rhodesia’s Prime Minister Ian Smith to achieve black

The Organisation of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) condemns the South African government’s plan for Black works councils.

Meeka, SA gospel singer, is born.

The United Nations General Assembly’s Political Committee decides to grant observer status to the ANC and the PAC. The South Af