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James Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry who strove to improve the image and administration
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The Universities Amendment Act and the Extension of University Education Amendment Act give the Minister of Education, Arts and
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Local elections are finally held in Kwazulu Natal. Thousands of additional police and troops are deployed and voting proceeds p
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President Mbeki appoints Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, minister of minerals and energy and wife of former head of national prosecutin
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Willem Jacobus du Plooy Erlank (Eitemal), poet and professor in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of Stellenbosc
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ANC and SACP stalwart, teacher and chief ANC Whip in the provincial KwaZulu-Natal legislature, Harry Themba (Mphephethwa) Gwala
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ILO General Conference in Geneva condemns apartheid as degrading, criminal and inhuman, and decides to give assistance to South
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’Rekord’ announces that Robert Liefeldt, men’s gymnastics coach and seasoned judge of the All Africa Games and Commonwealth Gam
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The Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration and Education, Punt Janson, invites guidance in humanising the pass laws and influx
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The Rev. Stephanus Johannes Gerhardus Hofmeyr, missionary in the Soutpansberg and Rhodesia and later amongst Whites, dies at th
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Murdered Free State official Noby Ngombane’s wife, Nokwanda, and two of her sisters, Vuyokasi Mlambo, 26, and Thanthiswa Mlambo
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Representatives of the South African authorities, business and religious leaders, as well as ANC and IFP, meet in Johannesburg
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The Department of Information is to be disbanded and replaced by a Bureau for National and International Communications, for wh
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The Post Office Amendment Bill provides for the interception of mail and telephone and other communications where necessary in
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Jama Makhosi, ANC, SACP and Alexandra Civic Organisation activist and Fihlokwakhe Nxumalo, relative of chair of local IFP branc
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Lindiwe Emmerentia Kuzwayo, successful fashion designer and judge at fashion shows in SA and overseas, is born in Durban.
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The SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman (Herman Malan), shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a qua
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Zahi Hawass and fellow Egyptologists announce the discovery of a workers’ cemetery and village just beyond Heit el-Shorab (the
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Johanna Catharina Jacoba Cornelius, full-time organiser and general secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union and sister of Heste
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Eighty people die and 500 are injured in a collision between a goods train and a train carrying dynamite in Braamfontein, Johan
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The Most Reverend Janani Luwum, Anglican archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Boga-Zaïre and two government ministers ar
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At least thirty-two people die and 100 are injured when a train between Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya derails.
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Twelve people including a policeman and two children are killed and thirty-eight injured as violence breaks out between police,
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The political power struggle continues between President P.W. Botha and F.W. de Klerk and a compromise is reached between the t
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President Fouché pays a state visit to Malawi (17-24 March) and appeals for peaceful co-existence and cooperation betwee
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The Gauteng Academy of Sport, in conjunction with the universities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand and Vaal Uni
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South Africa signs treaties with Swaziland on the establishment and functioning of the joint Water Commission and the developme
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Five rebels of the Slachter’s Nek Rebellion, Cornelius Faber, Hendrik Prinsloo, Theunis de Klerk, and brothers Stefanus and Abr
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Dr. Andries Treurnicht resigns as Minister of State Administration and of Statistics and announces the formation of the Conserv
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