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The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and
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How the man and his marriage will forever be remembered | Ruth First paid tribute to the couple: Walter and Albertina
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Dr Cornelius Gerhardus Stephanus (Con) de Villiers (83), author and authority on zoology and church music, dies in Ceres, CP.
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Four children die and two policemen are critically injured when a police vehicle smashed into a minibus taxi and they both burs
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Barend Hendrik Strydom, a former right-wing member, massacres seven Blacks and an Indian and wounds sixteen in Pretoria city ce
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Cabinet is reshuffled, and the head of the mining house Gencor, Derek Keys, is appointed Minister of Trade and Industry.
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Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during
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Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen
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At the end of a two-day preparatory meeting chaired by Judge Ismail Mohammed and Judge Petrus Schabort, nineteen political and
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The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park announce a consumer boycott of Boksburg. The boycott by Coloured and Black resid
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Nigeria’s deputy head of state, Lieut. Gen. Oladipo Diya, and eleven others are arrested and accused of plotting to overthrow G
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The General Assembly terminated the mandate of the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petrol
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SA signs agreement with the UN and the Commission of the European Union concerning the legal status, privileges and immunities
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Josef Johannes (Jopie) Fourie, scout and dispatch-rider during Anglo-Boer War 2, and rebel commando leader during the 1914 Rebe
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The ANC confirms it has forwarded 300 applications from its members to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and expects to s
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The three ships, Drommedaris, Reijger and Goede Hoop, carrying Jan van Riebeeck and his party, leave Texel, the Netherlands, on
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Christopher Nceba Faku, political activist and prisoner and mayor of Port Elizabeth for several terms, is born in New Brighton,
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Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London
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Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t
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A second series of meetings is held between South Africa and Mozambique in Pretoria and Maputo. Four working groups discuss sec
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Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.
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Nine Israeli tourists and two Egyptian guards are killed and twenty tourists wounded when masked assailants open fire on a bus
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In Algiers, an assassin shoots and kills the leader of Algeria’s largest labour union a key presidential ally and an opponent o
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Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air and fo
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The third Annual Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the SADCC and representatives of donor countries and organisations, hel
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The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc
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Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near
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Richard Ishmail, former ANC MK and managing director of Big Issue, a publication for the homeless, is accosted by a burglar and
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Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act in South Africa
This article was written by Brooke Lane and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
Zambia, the ANC and the struggle against apartheid 1964-1990
A short dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Magister Artium in History in the Faculty of Arts, at the Rand…