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The South African Journal, with Thomas Pringle as editor, and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift are established in Cape Town.

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Georg Schmidt, first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in SA, who established a mission station under the Hottentots (K

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More than eighty million Africans may die from Aids by 2025, the United Nations says in Addis Ababa. The numbers could soar t

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Four striking truckers are shot and wounded by a security guard when about 150 protesters storm the gates of Cargo Carriers in

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President Mandela visits Togo for a few hours. He and Togolese President Eyadema review the situation in West Africa.

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General Constand Viljoen registers a new party, the Freedom Front (Vryheidsfront), for the forthcoming April election. Date is

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Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k

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Ciskei’s President Lennox Sebe is overthrown in a coup. The homeland’s new military leader, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, announces tha

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Several hundred political prisoners begin a hunger strike at Robben Island, the country’s highest-security prison, to demand th

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A two day workers’ summit starts attended by fifteen COSATU affiliates, eleven NACTU affiliates (representing only part of NACT

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The South African Government says it is ready to implement the United Nations plan for the independence of Namibia as set out i

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Twelve people are killed and twenty-five injured in an explosion in a mosque in Morocco.

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Four senior newspaper editors are found guilty on between one and three counts under the 1982 Protection of Information Act, an

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ZANU-PF under Robert Mugabe wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe becomes president. http://www.news24.

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Iran breaks off diplomatic, political, economic and military ties with South Africa, and will no longer supply oil to this coun

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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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In the House of Assembly, the Prime Minister criticizes Mozambique’s action of closing its border with Rhodesia. He warns of th

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In the British House of Commons the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Expenditure proposes an inquiry

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The largest single construction work undertaken in South Africa, the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam (now Gariep Dam) on the Orange River,

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Dr. Basil Moore, Johannesburg Methodist Minister, staff member of the Christian Institute and acting Secretary of the Universit

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The Rhodesian Supreme Court rejects Queen Elizabeth’s ‘reprieve’ of two Rhodesian Black men sentenced to death.

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Daryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.

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Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd, discloses that the restriction on Seretse Khama, now Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, visiting Sou

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Walter Sisulu, former secretary-general of the African National Congress is convicted of having incited African workers to stri

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Mines and Works Act No 27 commences.

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Criminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences, making civil disobedience punishable by a three-year gaol sentence. It also effect

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Public Safety Act No 3 commences. This Act, passed in response to the ANC’s civil disobedience campaign, provides for a state o

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Carel Trichardt, SA actor, is born.

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Sandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born

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Jack Meckler, an athlete who won the Comrades Marathon five times, is born in Johannesburg.

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The South African Journal, with Thomas Pringle as editor, and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift are established in Cape Town.

Georg Schmidt, first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in SA, who established a mission station under the Hottentots (K

More than eighty million Africans may die from Aids by 2025, the United Nations says in Addis Ababa. The numbers could soar t

Four striking truckers are shot and wounded by a security guard when about 150 protesters storm the gates of Cargo Carriers in

President Mandela visits Togo for a few hours. He and Togolese President Eyadema review the situation in West Africa.

General Constand Viljoen registers a new party, the Freedom Front (Vryheidsfront), for the forthcoming April election. Date is

Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k

Ciskei’s President Lennox Sebe is overthrown in a coup. The homeland’s new military leader, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, announces tha

Several hundred political prisoners begin a hunger strike at Robben Island, the country’s highest-security prison, to demand th

A two day workers’ summit starts attended by fifteen COSATU affiliates, eleven NACTU affiliates (representing only part of NACT

The South African Government says it is ready to implement the United Nations plan for the independence of Namibia as set out i

Twelve people are killed and twenty-five injured in an explosion in a mosque in Morocco.

Four senior newspaper editors are found guilty on between one and three counts under the 1982 Protection of Information Act, an

ZANU-PF under Robert Mugabe wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe becomes president. http://www.news24.

Iran breaks off diplomatic, political, economic and military ties with South Africa, and will no longer supply oil to this coun

In reaction to newspaper reports, Prime Minister P.W. Botha states through the media, that he will not be ‘blackmailed into a d

In the House of Assembly, the Prime Minister criticizes Mozambique’s action of closing its border with Rhodesia. He warns of th

In the British House of Commons the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Expenditure proposes an inquiry

The largest single construction work undertaken in South Africa, the Hendrik Verwoerd Dam (now Gariep Dam) on the Orange River,

Dr. Basil Moore, Johannesburg Methodist Minister, staff member of the Christian Institute and acting Secretary of the Universit

The Rhodesian Supreme Court rejects Queen Elizabeth’s ‘reprieve’ of two Rhodesian Black men sentenced to death.

Daryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.

Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd, discloses that the restriction on Seretse Khama, now Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, visiting Sou

Walter Sisulu, former secretary-general of the African National Congress is convicted of having incited African workers to stri

Mines and Works Act No 27 commences.

Criminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences, making civil disobedience punishable by a three-year gaol sentence. It also effect

Public Safety Act No 3 commences. This Act, passed in response to the ANC’s civil disobedience campaign, provides for a state o

Carel Trichardt, SA actor, is born.

Sandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born

Jack Meckler, an athlete who won the Comrades Marathon five times, is born in Johannesburg.