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Fifteen English cricket players are prohibited to play for three years in England because of their rebel tour of South Africa

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Fifteen English cricket players are prohibited to play for three years in England because of their rebel tour of South Africa

President F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results

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President F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results

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The University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein

The Regeneration of Africa - speech by Pixley Seme 5 April 1906

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Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded

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Zimbabwe charges sixty-nine suspected mercenaries with conspiring to murder Nguema of Equatorial Guinea.

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The former United States of America (US) Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Cameron Hume, hands over specialised anti-terrorism equ

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Rwanda, with 125 000 suspects for 500 000 murders, begins mass trials for the country’s 1994 genocide.

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The Transitional Executive Council unveils South Africa’s new &quot;interim&quot; national flag and says Die Stem and Nkosi Sik

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It is announced that talks between Government officials and an ANC delegation led by Nelson Mandela will open in Cape Town on 1

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Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the

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A motor bomb explodes outside the magistrate’s court in Krugersdorp, killing two army members and a civilian, and injuring twen

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The International Commission of Jurists states in its report that security forces are torturing children.

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Prime Minister P.W. Botha and President Samora Machel of Mozambique sign the Nkomati Accord

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In elections to the 100-member Lebowa National Assembly, Dr. Phatudi’s ruling Lebowa People’s Party wins more than three-quarte

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Dr. Connie Mulder, leader of the recently formed Nasionale Konservatiewe Party (NKP), foresees a new political alliance bringin

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The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p

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A warrant is issued for Dr Rhoodie’s arrest on a charge of fraud, with an alternative charge of theft.

Bram Fischer is released from prison on health grounds

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Bram Fischer is released from prison on health grounds

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Jan Ellis, SA actor, is born in Belville, Cape.

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The Head of the Security Police, General Venter, reports that nobody is still being held incommunicado under the Terrorism Act,

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Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls

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Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.

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Tito Mboweni, President of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen.

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Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 commences: Prohibits gatherings in open-air public places if the Minister of Justice considers th

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Prof. Izak Daniël Bosman (50), professor of history at the University of Pretoria, dies in Pretoria.

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Britain recognises Kingdom of Egypt under Fuad I, with joint Anglo-Egyptian sovereignty over Sudan.

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Alba Bouwer, South African author, is born.

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Helena Dorothea Strauss, singer, choir director and music teacher, is born on the farm “Terugkeer” in Wepener district, OFS.

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James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the ANC in 1949, is born in Th