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The Hoexter Commission presents its fifth and final report to Parliament, recommending major reforms in the judicial system and
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A US State Department report says Israel, France and Italy have continued to maintain and upgrade a major weapons systems for S
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Gen. P.J. Joubert, politician and Commandant-General of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and political opponent of Pres. Paul Kr
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Dumisani Henry Makhaye, ANC politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander and trainer, is born in KwaMashu, Natal. He represented
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Anton Ackerman, SA actor and member of the theatrical company of Wena Naudé and Willem van Zyl, is born.
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Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, businessman and former secretary-general of the ANC and head of the Constitutional Assembly, is born
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Adam Ismail Ebrahim, economist and managing director and portfolio manager of Oasis Asset Management, is born in Cape Town.
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Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo, Zulu choirmaster and composer who was a founder member and first secretary of the Bantu Social
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Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, scientist and industrialist who founded the South African Iron and Steel Industrial Corporati
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The trial of twenty-two Africans, accused of pro-Communist and subversive activities, of instigating guerrilla warfare and of o
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Egypt’s foreign minister urges America and other nations to help halt Mideast violence, and says the international community ha
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Two explosions in Bisho, the Ciskei’s capital, damage the Pick ‘n Pay shopping centre and a garage and injure one person.
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George Sammy Shane Maluleke, attorney and member of several law-related Boards and Commissions, is born in Wallmannstal, near P
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Allina Ndebele (born Khumalo), SA artist and master weaver who returned to her father’s village and established a small worksho
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The former South African defence minister, General Magnus Malan, and several former high-ranking officials are arrested and cha
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Pieter Johannes (Piet) Potgieter, second son and sixth child of Andries Hendrik Potgieter and in 1853 elected chief commandant
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Dorothy Ruth Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, dies in Johannesb
ArchiveDiscussions between the South African and American delegations on matters concerning Southern Africa: Vienna 19 and 20 May 1977
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Ouneas (Pakes) Dikgetsi, MEC for Housing and Local Government, Northern Cape Provincial Government and founder member of the Un
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Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology and ANC Women’s League president Winnie Mandela is accused of misusing
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Exchange of notes with Namibia takes place. It concerns formal school and technical college instructional programmes and the pe
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The student activists Porta Shabangu, Thabo Mohale and Derrick Mashobane are ambushed and shot in Swaziland by a Vlakplaas divi
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The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal
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The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruct
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Riots between ethnic Hausa and Yoruba rocks Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, killing 100 people and forcing thousands
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George William Stow, diamond trader and auctioneer in Kimberley and discoverer of the coalfields near Vereeniging, is born in W
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South African Airways is inaugurated and takes over the passenger and goods air services hitherto operated by Union Airways.
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Nineteen people die and six are injured in a head on collision on the road between Standerton and Embalenhle, Mpumalanga.
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Brassmen attack Royal Niger Company’s station at Akassa, West Africa, and kill and eat forty-three captives. Christian chiefs o
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