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The railway line between Johannesburg/Pretoria and Delagoa Bay is opened. The following source states that the opening wa
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The first synod is constituted in Cape Town, with delegates of twelve of the fourteen congregations attending.
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Maria van Riebeeck, wife of Jan van Riebeeck, dies of smallpox in Malacca.
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Botswana’s ruling party wins the country’s elections, handing President Festus Mogae a second and final term in office. http://
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P. Diddy charters two jets to fly 300 guests from New York to Marrakech (Marrakesh) to celebrate his 33rd birthday party in Mor
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The SA cricket team beats Zimbabwe with an innings and thirteen runs in the first five-day test in Bloemfontein.
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The National Library of South Africa Act, 1998 (Act 92 of 1998), comes into effect and creates the National Library of South Af
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The SA cricket team beats the West Indies in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with 4 wickets in a one-day International Cricket Council Wills
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Rwandan and Zairian forces bombard each another with artillery along the border, while rebels in Zaire, supported by Rwanda, cl
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South Africans vote in their first all-race local government elections and the African National Congress secures an impressive
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Angolan government forces take the oil-producing town of Soyo from the rebel group Unita, which captured it the year before.
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SA exchanges notes with Namibia on the joint administration of Walvis Bay and the offshore islands.
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Frederick Chiluba defeats President Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia’s first multi-party elections for twenty-three years.
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Minister of Justice Kobie Coetsee announces guidelines for the release of political prisoners and the return of exiles.
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According to W. Steenkamp in his book SA’s Border War 1966-1989, the final death toll at this date was as follows: 715 SA secur
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The government suspends the anti-apartheid alternative newspaper, The Weekly Mail, until 28 November.
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Despite discussions with the SA Rugby Board, the ANC asks the International Rugby Board to prohibit a SA tour of the World Rugb
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Chris Hani is appointed as the new chief-of-staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, to succeed Joe Slovo.
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The Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) is launched with the opening of its first office in Port El
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Government bans television coverage of unrest in Black townships in the thirty-eight magisterial districts where the State of E
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Labour Relations Amendment Act No 57 commences, redefining ‘employee’ to cover all Black workers, including local and foreign m
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Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers, lexicographer, educationist, author and member of several cultural organisations, dies in St
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A five-day strike called by militant students in the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC) meets with only limited res
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The QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status. Date is given as 25 October by news24.com.
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Anrich Herbst, SA actor, is born in Bloemfontein.
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Four Indians are convicted of conspiracy under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to a minimum of five years imprisonment. Their i
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The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh is found guilty on ten points of subversive act
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Act no 90 of 1967 commences, according to which the minister of mining no longer chairs the board on atomic energy. The Act sti
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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a fifty-four-nation resolution by 114 to 2 against (South Africa and Portugal) with
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