General South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977 on the humanitarian conduct of war. 1980 29 November, At a National Party rally in Ladysmith … tells the National Assembly that Lesotho is faced with a war with South Africa. 1983 13 April, A Defence Amendment … African Defence Force in its biggest exercise since World War II, which, the Times contends in a separate article, will …