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The government gives its details of proposals to consolidate 157 ‘Black spots’ and sixty-eight Zulu areas into a homeland. Kwaz
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Andrew Harold Makope disappears in Mamelodi after being taken into a light blue combi a short distance from his home by armed m
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South Africa and Botswana agree to take steps preventing ANC operatives from using Botswana as a transit base into South Africa
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Free Burghers in the Cape receive their first agricultural plots. First legislation with regard to water rights come into actio
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The judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Activities of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) accuses it of pursuing s
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A new constitution with extended governmental power comes into operation in the Natal Colony when John Scott opens the first se
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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph
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The SAA Rietbok crashes into the sea at Kayser’s Beach near East London, with the loss of twenty-five lives.
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that a thorough inquiry into Transkei land claims has been made
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The Harms Commission, appointed in December 1989 by the F.W. de Klerk government to investigate into state involvement in polit
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In reaction to newspaper reports, Prime Minister P.W. Botha states through the media, that he will not be ‘blackmailed into a d
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Lichtenburg takes place. The British soldiers move their horses into the Dutch Reformed Church
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Twenty-five people are injured when 50 000 people attempt to squeeze into a 25 000-capacity soccer stadium in Antanan
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Soweto flares into violence again. An estimated £75,000 damage is caused. Incidents are also reported from Cape Town, Pretoria
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Nine people are killed on the N1 between Bloemfontein and Winburg when a lorry runs into the back of a stationary bus.
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Nine people are killed on the N1 between Bloemfontein and Winburg when a lorry runs into the back of a stationary bus.
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The Labour Relations Amendment Act, amending the Labour Relations Act of 1956, comes into force. The Black trade union movement
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Artist William Cornwallis starts his journey into the interior in Graaff-Reinet. He reached Kuruman, where he met missionary Ro
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The Commission of Inquiry into the 1986 Unrest and Alleged Mismanagement in KwaNdebele, originally to be headed by Mr Justice W
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The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Sub-Committee opens an inquiry into the South African operations of 320 Am
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The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Consolidation of the ‘Homelands’, Hennie van der Walt, speaking at the National
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A US cargo plane carrying 10 tons of food sweeps into Wajir, Kenya, to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa.
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Hansie Cronje (32), former SA cricket captain, is killed when a light plane in which he was travelling crashes into a mountain
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WWII: North Africa. Colonel General Erwin Rommel begins his third offensive to push the British back into Egypt: Operation ‘Ven
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The US expels the South African military attaché in response to raids by South African forces into Botswana, Zambia, and
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The Commission of Inquiry into the South African Press tables the second part of its report, severely criticising the reporting
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Mozambique rejects the findings of the Margo commission of inquiry into the air crash in which Mozambican leader Samora Machel
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An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill
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New constitution goes into effect in the British Gold Coast colony later Ghana becoming first British African colony with major
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