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Britain announces it will unilaterally lift ban on new investments in South Africa.

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The Citizen reports that released ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, and his wife, Winnie, were granted passports to visit the ANC lea

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The Star reports that President P.W. Botha, opening the QwaQwa Legislative assembly, said that the non-independent homelands ha

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Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,

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At the end of the third meeting between Mozambique and South Africa, in Maputo, a joint statement is released announcing that t

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Prime Minister P.W. Botha describes the National Party policy of inter-racial consultation and joint responsibility, as ‘a form

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Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that the Ciskei will become fully independent on 4 December 1981.

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The Minister of Labour announces instructions to the Wage Board to revise certain determinations applying to unskilled labourer

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Joost van der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born.

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Morocco and Algeria sign accord to end border conflict which resulted in troop clashes.

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South Africa signs treaty amending the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

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The Population Registration Bill, read for the first time in Cape Town, recognises three race classifications: Whites, Coloured

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A Day of Prayer, called by NIC, is observed very widely. Indian businesses are closed at 1 pm, and many Indians take a resistan

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The Totius festival reaches a climax as 2 500 people gather in the Bloemfontein City Hall.

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A serious epidemic of measles breaks out among the White community of Cape Town.

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General Louis Botha’s Het Volk Party wins the general election in the Transvaal Colony.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. C.W. Park, commanding three columns and accompanied by about 300 National Scouts and a commando of armed

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Emile Hullebroeck, Afrikaans song writer, is born in Flanders.

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Prof. Adriaan Francken, professor in Dutch and French at Grey University College in Bloemfontein and founding member of the Onz

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The farm Turffontein in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is registered in the name of Abraham Smit. In the following sixteen yea

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Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.

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Lord Charles Somerset (64), former governor at the Cape and direct descendent of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England from 1

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De Grundel, a ninety-ton coastal vessel of the Dutch East India Company, is wrecked near Cape Hangklip. No lives are lost. The

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Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 78, and his son Gerard Ntakirutimana, 45, a doctor, are convicted of geno

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Masibulela Makepula, SA junior flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) title.

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The Job Creation Trust, aimed at raising millions for the relief of unemployment, is launched by SA’s three major trade union f

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The Presidents of South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet in Cape Town. The five leaders exchange views on

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The World Health Organisation confirms that Ebola virus killed thirteen villagers in Gabon.

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The ANC and the South African government make further concessions in an attempt to draw the FA into an inclusive constitutional

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Gunmen kill eighteen young ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal, the first major act of violence in a Zulu anti-election campaign.

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Britain announces it will unilaterally lift ban on new investments in South Africa.

The Citizen reports that released ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, and his wife, Winnie, were granted passports to visit the ANC lea

The Star reports that President P.W. Botha, opening the QwaQwa Legislative assembly, said that the non-independent homelands ha

Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,

At the end of the third meeting between Mozambique and South Africa, in Maputo, a joint statement is released announcing that t

Prime Minister P.W. Botha describes the National Party policy of inter-racial consultation and joint responsibility, as ‘a form

Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that the Ciskei will become fully independent on 4 December 1981.

The Minister of Labour announces instructions to the Wage Board to revise certain determinations applying to unskilled labourer

Joost van der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born.

Morocco and Algeria sign accord to end border conflict which resulted in troop clashes.

South Africa signs treaty amending the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Population Registration Bill, read for the first time in Cape Town, recognises three race classifications: Whites, Coloured

A Day of Prayer, called by NIC, is observed very widely. Indian businesses are closed at 1 pm, and many Indians take a resistan

The Totius festival reaches a climax as 2 500 people gather in the Bloemfontein City Hall.

A serious epidemic of measles breaks out among the White community of Cape Town.

General Louis Botha’s Het Volk Party wins the general election in the Transvaal Colony.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. C.W. Park, commanding three columns and accompanied by about 300 National Scouts and a commando of armed

Emile Hullebroeck, Afrikaans song writer, is born in Flanders.

Prof. Adriaan Francken, professor in Dutch and French at Grey University College in Bloemfontein and founding member of the Onz

The farm Turffontein in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is registered in the name of Abraham Smit. In the following sixteen yea

Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.

Lord Charles Somerset (64), former governor at the Cape and direct descendent of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England from 1

De Grundel, a ninety-ton coastal vessel of the Dutch East India Company, is wrecked near Cape Hangklip. No lives are lost. The

Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 78, and his son Gerard Ntakirutimana, 45, a doctor, are convicted of geno

Masibulela Makepula, SA junior flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) title.

The Job Creation Trust, aimed at raising millions for the relief of unemployment, is launched by SA’s three major trade union f

The Presidents of South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet in Cape Town. The five leaders exchange views on

The World Health Organisation confirms that Ebola virus killed thirteen villagers in Gabon.

The ANC and the South African government make further concessions in an attempt to draw the FA into an inclusive constitutional

Gunmen kill eighteen young ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal, the first major act of violence in a Zulu anti-election campaign.