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The Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the prime minister to investigate the activities of four organisations, amon
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South Africa signs a treaty with the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland amending the trade agreement of 16 May 1960.
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The SA Amendment Act abrogates the entrenched clauses protecting the Cape C Coloured voters.
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Robert Graeme Pollock, South African cricket player, is born in Durban.
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Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, member of the South African Communist party and prominent politician, goes on trial for making anti-war
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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To
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J.P. (Pieter) de Lange, chairman of the Afrikanerbroederbond, and head of the commission of the Human Sciences Research Council
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The Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.
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Several people are killed or arrested during the first skirmish between White labour and the government in the Rand Revolt.
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Johanna Catharina Jacoba Cornelius, full-time organiser and general secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union and sister of Heste
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C.M. van den Heever (Christiaan Maurits), Afrikaans novelist, is born in the concentration camp at Norvalspont.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: On the same day both the oldest and the youngest prisoners of war to be deported, are captured at Dwaalspruit
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Gen. Redvers Buller break through the Boer lines during the Battle of Pietershoogte.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer general Piet Cronje surrenders with 3 919 men (nearly 10% of the total republican fighting strength)
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The sovereignty of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is recognised by Britain with the signing of the Treaty of London, exactly t
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Anglo-Boer War 1: Boers defeat the British force at Majuba Hill, in the Anglo-Transvaal War. More than 200 British soldiers and
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A severe flood strikes Victoria West during the night after a cloudburst in the mountains to the south-west. More than sixt
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Britain annexes the Offshore Islands off the Namibian coast to the Cape of Good Hope.
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Bethlehem, OFS, is founded.
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Rijk Tulbagh, born in Utrecht, Holland, in 1699, becomes Governor of the Cape.
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Shortly before midnight five men drown and two are washed out to sea during what was supposed to be a routine baptism ceremony
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Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo
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A run-away truck wrecks havoc in Potgieter Street, Pretoria.
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A Sudanese military plane crashes in Sudan, killing all seventy passengers and crew on board.
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Adriaan Vlok, former apartheid era minister of law and order, applies to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty th
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Defence Minister Roelf Meyer (1991-1996) says that the ANC’s proposals on joint control of security forces and on a role for th
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Defence Minister General Magnus Malan says all activities of the clandestine Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB) have been suspende
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All 343 political prisoners on Robben Island begin a hunger strike, signalling the start of a nationwide campaign for the uncon
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Thousands of Namibians welcome the head of the UN task force, General Prem Chand, in Windhoek. Chand is in charge of the milita
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