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South African government announces it has joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.

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The Gemini succeeds in its search for the black box of the Helderberg in the sea near Mauritius, nearly a year after it crashed

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Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg.

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Helen Suzman, member of Parliament for Houghton, is elected as national president of the Progressive Federal Party.

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US President Ronald Reagan is in favour of covert aid for UNITA rebels in Angola.

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Abel Ngwenya, Daveyton, dies in police custody, allegedly from an epileptic fit, but the pathologist indicated violence involve

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Keith McFadden and Zwelakhe Nyanda, both ANC members, are shot dead by two gunmen in Manzini, Swaziland.

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The President’s Council, mandated to consider South Africa’s constitutional future, releases its final report.

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The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective

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Dr Robert Smit, National Party MP for Springs, and his wife, Jean-Cora, are murdered in their home in Springs. The TRC found in

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UN General Assembly gives the Palestine Liberation Organisation observer status.

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President Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea requests UN aid against invading Portuguese troops.

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Rhodesia leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.

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The first General Assembly in Transkei starts.

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Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever

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Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and China’s Chiang Kai-shek agree in Cairo, Egypt,

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WWII: SA troops in North Africa flee before the onslaught of Field-Marshall Erwin Rommel.

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World War 1: North Africa: German L59 Zeppelin starts flight from Bulgaria to Khartoum carrying much needed supplies to General

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The Rev. Willem Postma’s Afrikaans translation of the Bible book Titus is published.

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Instructions are issued to all magistrates in Zululand to assemble the chiefs in their areas, to explain the new poll-tax law.

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President Paul Kruger arrives in Marseille harbour, France, on board the Dutch cruiser Gelderland , sent by Queen Wilhelmina.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Willow Grange, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightnin

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Belgians suppress uprising of Arab slaveholders in Upper Congo.

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Andries Pretorius arrives in the Voortrekker laager on the bank of the “Klein Tugela”.

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François le Vaillant (71), explorer of the SA interior, dies in Cézanne, France.

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Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India.

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former financial adviser, Addy Moolman, is to finally start serving his four-year jail sentence, Pr

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Joyce Kgoali (54), chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, dies following complications after a minor operation.

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The Sunday Independent reports that at least 1,2 million Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa during the past three years, bri

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The SA Communist Party (SACP), following a weekend meeting of its augmented central committee, calls for an end to the Mugabe g

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South African government announces it has joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.

The Gemini succeeds in its search for the black box of the Helderberg in the sea near Mauritius, nearly a year after it crashed

Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg.

Helen Suzman, member of Parliament for Houghton, is elected as national president of the Progressive Federal Party.

US President Ronald Reagan is in favour of covert aid for UNITA rebels in Angola.

Abel Ngwenya, Daveyton, dies in police custody, allegedly from an epileptic fit, but the pathologist indicated violence involve

Keith McFadden and Zwelakhe Nyanda, both ANC members, are shot dead by two gunmen in Manzini, Swaziland.

The President’s Council, mandated to consider South Africa’s constitutional future, releases its final report.

The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective

Dr Robert Smit, National Party MP for Springs, and his wife, Jean-Cora, are murdered in their home in Springs. The TRC found in

UN General Assembly gives the Palestine Liberation Organisation observer status.

President Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea requests UN aid against invading Portuguese troops.

Rhodesia leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.

The first General Assembly in Transkei starts.

Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever

Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and China’s Chiang Kai-shek agree in Cairo, Egypt,

WWII: SA troops in North Africa flee before the onslaught of Field-Marshall Erwin Rommel.

World War 1: North Africa: German L59 Zeppelin starts flight from Bulgaria to Khartoum carrying much needed supplies to General

The Rev. Willem Postma’s Afrikaans translation of the Bible book Titus is published.

Instructions are issued to all magistrates in Zululand to assemble the chiefs in their areas, to explain the new poll-tax law.

President Paul Kruger arrives in Marseille harbour, France, on board the Dutch cruiser Gelderland , sent by Queen Wilhelmina.

Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Willow Grange, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightnin

Belgians suppress uprising of Arab slaveholders in Upper Congo.

Andries Pretorius arrives in the Voortrekker laager on the bank of the “Klein Tugela”.

François le Vaillant (71), explorer of the SA interior, dies in Cézanne, France.

Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope in his search for a route to India.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s former financial adviser, Addy Moolman, is to finally start serving his four-year jail sentence, Pr

Joyce Kgoali (54), chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, dies following complications after a minor operation.

The Sunday Independent reports that at least 1,2 million Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa during the past three years, bri

The SA Communist Party (SACP), following a weekend meeting of its augmented central committee, calls for an end to the Mugabe g