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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).

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At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i

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Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They

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Linda Brakvis of Heldemoed, OFS, UDF member, is found stabbed three days after release from detention.

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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup

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Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the “Stellenbosch-boerorkes”, dies.

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Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.

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The Durban College of Education is started in the backyard of the Durban Girls’ High School.

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The first violence caused by apartheid occurs in Johannesburg.

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WW2: German and Italian forces take Benghazi, Libya.

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The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hert

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Brassmen attack Royal Niger Company’s station at Akassa, West Africa, and kill and eat forty-three captives. Christian chiefs o

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Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, national co-ordinator of The Gift Of The Givers Foundation, announces in Johannesburg that the foundation i

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A plane brings nineteen sick and weak-looking adolescents home to Uganda after months or possibly years -of captivity under Uga

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Nine people are hurt in an explosion in front of the Cape-Central police offices (previously Caledon Plain).

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In Algiers, an assassin shoots and kills the leader of Algeria’s largest labour union a key presidential ally and an opponent o

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirms newspaper reports that five former security police officers have confessed to

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President Mandela meets United States black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam. Both state their opposi

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In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k

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SA signs joint communiqué concerning the development of bilateral relations with Jordan.

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Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador.

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Leadership of National Liberation Front, which won Algeria’s independence and ruled for three decades, resigns.

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Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and nine other members are arrested for staging a riot o

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The ANC announces that it has given President de Klerk a list of police officers believed to have participated in township viol

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Mthunzi Njakazi, ANC member of Durban, is shot dead on street.

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Farmers march in protest through Pretoria streets and disrupt traffic.

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A group of dissatisfied members of the AWB (Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging) break away and start the BVB (Boere-Vryheidsbeweging)

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United States Secretary of State, George Shultz, meets ANC leader, Oliver Tambo, in Washington, D.C.

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SA signs loan agreement with Lesotho.

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The Security Police arrest Major A.M. Kozlov, a senior officer in the Soviet KGB, during his third visit to South Africa in 198

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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).

At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i

Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They

Linda Brakvis of Heldemoed, OFS, UDF member, is found stabbed three days after release from detention.

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup

Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the “Stellenbosch-boerorkes”, dies.

Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.

The Durban College of Education is started in the backyard of the Durban Girls’ High School.

The first violence caused by apartheid occurs in Johannesburg.

WW2: German and Italian forces take Benghazi, Libya.

The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hert

Brassmen attack Royal Niger Company’s station at Akassa, West Africa, and kill and eat forty-three captives. Christian chiefs o

Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, national co-ordinator of The Gift Of The Givers Foundation, announces in Johannesburg that the foundation i

A plane brings nineteen sick and weak-looking adolescents home to Uganda after months or possibly years -of captivity under Uga

Nine people are hurt in an explosion in front of the Cape-Central police offices (previously Caledon Plain).

In Algiers, an assassin shoots and kills the leader of Algeria’s largest labour union a key presidential ally and an opponent o

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirms newspaper reports that five former security police officers have confessed to

President Mandela meets United States black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam. Both state their opposi

In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k

SA signs joint communiqué concerning the development of bilateral relations with Jordan.

Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador.

Leadership of National Liberation Front, which won Algeria’s independence and ruled for three decades, resigns.

Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and nine other members are arrested for staging a riot o

The ANC announces that it has given President de Klerk a list of police officers believed to have participated in township viol

Mthunzi Njakazi, ANC member of Durban, is shot dead on street.

Farmers march in protest through Pretoria streets and disrupt traffic.

A group of dissatisfied members of the AWB (Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging) break away and start the BVB (Boere-Vryheidsbeweging)

United States Secretary of State, George Shultz, meets ANC leader, Oliver Tambo, in Washington, D.C.

SA signs loan agreement with Lesotho.

The Security Police arrest Major A.M. Kozlov, a senior officer in the Soviet KGB, during his third visit to South Africa in 198