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The government launches &quot;Operation Iron Fist&quot;, imposing curfews, roadblocks, house-to-house searches and fencing off

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President P.W. Botha admits in Parliament that he personally phoned the SA Broadcasting Corporation and intervened to change a

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Black Communities Development Amendment Act No 74 commences.

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France returns the deposit paid by South Africa for two corvettes and two submarines.

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The South African government begins removing 45 000 Bakalobeng tribesmen from a Transvaal area into the Bophuthatswana homeland

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Some 200,000 Coloured workers stay away from work (15 – 16 September) in the Cape Town area. The extent of the strike is unex

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Egyptian commander in six-day war with Israel, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, commits suicide.

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Augustine Makalakalane, SA Bafana soccer player, is born.

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South Africa signs agreement with Portugal (for Mozambique), Northern Rhodesia, and Malawi on postal services.

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Sandra Prinsloo, SA actress, is born.

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Mike Proctor, SA cricket player, is born.

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Bruce Murray Arnott, S.A. artist is born in Highflats, Ixopo District, Natal.

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The Johannesburg Empire Exhibition opens at Milner Park.

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Boer leader General Koos de la Rey, en route to Potchefstroom with general Beyers, is shot dead when his chauffeur-driven car f

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Gen. C.F. Beyers, Commandant-General of SA, resigns his commission in protest against the resolution of the government to enter

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The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Fifteen members of the notorious special British unit called the Bushveld Carbineers send a petition to Colon

International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement by Robert Jackson Alexander

A Life’s Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala by Phyllis Ntantala

The Individual, Auto/biography and History in South Africa by Ciraj Shahid Rassool

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The 75th anniversary celebration of the Voortrekkers (an Afrikaans youth organisation) ends at the Voortrekker Monument.

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Mbekiattend celebrations at Durban’s Kingsmead Cricket Stadium to commemorat

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The United Nations begins the deployment in Liberia of its biggest peacekeeping mission.

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President Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front party wins a majority in the parliamentary elections. It is the nation’s first

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Up to this date the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights has awarded land to 115 194 beneficiaries and financial compensati

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President Thabo Mbeki’s state visit (1-3 October) to Nigeria starts.

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SA’s first commercial service television station depending solely on advertising, e.tv, starts broadcasting.

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Inkatha agrees to return to the Constitutional Assembly, after an eighteen-month absence, but withdraws again on 7 October 1996

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A US federal jury finds Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others guilty of plotting to blow up the World Trade

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SA exchanges notes with Swaziland on the establishment of diplomatic relations.