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In announcing the 1982 Defence Budget, Owen Horwood reaffirms that the government’s highest priority remains that of giving Sou
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The leader of the NRP, Vause Raw, states that the country’s major parties are divided and in disarray and that the NRP could la
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Dr. C.P. Mulder, speaking for the National Conservative Party (NCP) discloses that his party has reached an understanding with
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Dr. Connie Mulder, in effect, accuses President Vorster of lying and states that the decision to found and finance ‘The Citizen
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SA signs multilateral treaty for the modification and further extension of the Wheat Trade Convention.
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SA signs amendment with Great Britain to the agreement on civil air services signed on 26 October 1945.
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Dorette Potgieter, SA actress, is born in Stellenbosch.
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All-in African Conference (25-26 March) with 1,400 delegates from 145 religious, cultural, peasant, intellectual and political
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Frederick William Fitzsimons (80), Director of the Port Elizabeth Museum, dies in Grahamstown.
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Johannes van der Walt, SA wrestler who was known as the ‘Gemaskerde Wonder’ (Masked Wonder), dies in Johannesburg after being w
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The Oranje-Vrouevereniging (Association of Women in the Orange Free State) is founded on Onze Rust, farm of former Pres. M.T.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British military authorities declare martial law in the Zululand districts north of the Tugela.
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The Waif strands at Plettenberg Bay.
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The battle of Koranaberg takes place during the Orange Free State-Basuto War.
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The Rev. Wilhelm Adolph Alheit, army chaplain for the Boer forces and minister in Colesberg, Dordrecht and Ceres, is born.
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Latters Patent issued, creating a constitution for the Orange River sovereignty.
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Durban pioneer Captain Allen Gardiner establishes the first educational institution in Natal when a school for Black children o
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William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the South African interior, reaches Graaff-Reinet, which he has left in January
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The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act is passed by the British Parliament. It outlaws the slave trade within the British Em
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Pieter Hackius (also Hakkius) succeeds Jacob Borghorst as commander at the Cape. This date appears to be the correct one, not 2
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Cape slavery may be dated from this date, (or 28 March, as given in two other sources) when the Amersfoort , with some 170 slav
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The Chamber of XVII in Amsterdam orders that the Drommedaris, the Goede Hoop and the Reijger be fitted out for the proposed jou
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The Dutch Indiaman, Nieuw-Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay.
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The Dutch East India Company orders Henry Hudson to try again to find a northwestern sea route to India.
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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to eight years in gaol on charges of fraud
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At least thirty-two people die and 100 are injured when a train between Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya derails.
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An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge
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President FW de Klerk tells parliament that South Africa constructed six nuclear fission devices but these had been dismantled
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The Mali opposition says government troops killed nearly 150 people in three days of pro-democracy protests.
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