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’Peace and development in our region’, Speech by Oliver Tambo at “War on want” Conference, London, 2 June 1988

Speech by Oliver Tambo at the 50th session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the liberation of Africa, Harare, 13 May 1988

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Cabinet decides to replace the SAAF trainer Harvards by the Swiss-made Pilatus PC-7 MK2. The joint venture will include twelve

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Chad’s President Hissene Habre flees the country after Libyan-armed guerrillas march into the capital.

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Amos Khoza (18) falls to his death seven stories from a flat in Johannesburg where he is allegedly escorting police to identify

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Following the January meeting of health ministers in London, a decision is taken that December 1 become World Aids Day.http://w

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SA signs an agreement with the USA regarding co-operation in the development, building, installation and operation of an integr

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A Hammanskraal policeman, Richard Motasi, an alleged informer for the Zimbabwean security police, and his wife Irene is murdere

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The Appellate Division rejects the appeal of the &quot;Sharpeville Six&quot; against the death sentence imposed on them for the

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Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro and his wife Florence Barbara are gunned down in their courtyard. Policemen A.J.M. Joubert, P.J. Verster

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Greg Page knocks out SA Gerrie Coetzee in eight rounds for the WBA heavyweight boxing title.

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Piet Crous, junior heavyweight champion of SA, wins the World Boxing Association (WBA) title.

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Angola is admitted to the United Nations.

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The government extends the Erasmus Commission’s terms of reference to 30 May 1979.

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Transkei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies from a heart attack. Prime Minister K. Matanzima announces his r

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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and African nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo sign an agreement to start full constitutional n

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Bob Forster successfully defends his world lightweight title against SA challenger Pierre Fourie during the first-ever boxing c

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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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The Cape Argus changes its name to The Argus.

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SA signs agreement with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

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Patrice Lumumba is caught in the Congo.

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SA, together with eleven other countries, signs the Antarctic Treaty, proclaiming it a conservation area, in Washington.

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Central African Republic becomes an autonomous member of the French Commonwealth with Boganda as president. (Now a National Da

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Sonja Heroldt, SA singer, is born.

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The South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra), an independent non-profit-making organisation, is established with the twof

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Horace William Chapman (50), SA cricket player in two tests, dies in Durban.

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Col. J.F. Jordaan of the SA force captures Gen. Christiaan de Wet, on his way to German South West Africa at Waterbury, near Vr

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Sir Henry Bale (56), chief justice of Natal, dies in Pietermaritzburg.

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The SA rugby team beats Wales 11-0 in Swansea.

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George Lohmann, cricketer (in South Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies.