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The bodies of two Swedish tourists are discovered in their luxury holiday flat in Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal.
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Joint statement of intent by President Mandela of South Africa and President Chissano of the Republic of Mozambique and the pre
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Signs treaty with the government of Namibia regarding Walvis Bay and the off-shore islands.
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South Africa and the Russian Federation establish full diplomatic relations.
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South Africa agrees to negotiate the future of the control of the enclave of Walvis Bay and several islands off the coast of Na
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South African commandos raid Gaborone, Botswana, in search of ANC members.
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Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated on a street in Stockholm. Christer Pettersson (42) later alleged that SA was
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More than 200 of the Transvaal National Party vote on either Dr. Treurnicht or Mr. Botha’s interpretation of Party policy. The
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An Anglican priest, the Reverend David Russell, is sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defying his banning order and attendin
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Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist, community leader and a keen athlete, dies in Orlando West, Soweto.
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The Minister of Justice announces that detainees held under security laws will soon be allowed to have monthly visits from doct
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US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after seven-year breach.
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The Ivory Coast Foreign Minister urges African nations to seek dialogue with South Africa.
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Prime Minister Vorster announces that the new Coloured Persons Representative Council will be comprised of forty elected and tw
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The electoral college elects T.E. Donges as the next State President by 163 votes to fifty-two, cast for Major van der Byl.
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Fholisane Sydney Mufamadi, SA Minister for Provincial and Local Government since June 1999, is born.
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Susan Shabangu, SA Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy and member of the ANC Steering Committee, is born.
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Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed after enlarging the Senate and the Appellate Court. It removes Coloure
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Dr Monwabisi Bevan Goqwana, MEC for Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and former specialist physician at Umtata Hospi
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Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog announces in Parliament the final coalition agreement with Gen. J.C. Smuts.
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The Rand mineworkers’ revolt intensifies when three mineworkers are shot and killed outside the prison in Boksburg.
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Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist, community leader and a keen athlete, is born in Engcobo, Transkei.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Abortive Middelburg peace talks between Lord Kitchener and Commandant-General Louis Botha takes place during
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite his age and a painful eye infection, President Kruger leaves Pretoria by train for the Natal Front
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British relieves Ladysmith after a siege of four months when reinforcements under Buller arrive.
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Johannes J. Fagan, SA composer of mainly orchestral music, is born in Tulbach, Cape.
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Stephanus J. Roos is shot on patrol in the Middelburg district, eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), some months after Comdt.
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Henri Edouard Prosper Breuli, archaeologist attached to the University of the Witwatersrand, is born in Mortain, France.
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Sytzke Wopkes Wierda, designer of the Raadsaal on Church Square, Pretoria, Paardekraal monument in Krugersdorp and a number of
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