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The Department of Health declines the offer of a large donation of HIV test kits made by Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporate
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Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million
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The World Health Organisation reports that without urgent action against tuberculosis, 1-billion people will be infected and 70
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Israel freezes military contracts and imposes cultural and tourism sanctions on South Africa.
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The Five Freedoms Forum an alliance of White anti-apartheid organisations is launched in Johannesburg.
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The PAC announces in Dan es Salaam that it has reinstated seventy-two members expelled from the movement in July 1978.
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The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages
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President Marien Ngouabi of the Congo is assassinated in a military coup and replaced by Colonel Yhombi-Opango.
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Herbert Chitepo, 52, ZANU leader, is killed in Lusaka when his car blows up in an explosion.
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All activities of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) are suspended until further notice.
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The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been b
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The Deputy Leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is committed for trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on
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Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, attends the launching in France of the first of three Daphne class submarines being built for
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The Defence and Aid Fund is banned as an unlawful organisation under the Suppression of Communism Act. It is an autonomous Sout
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The nuclear reactor Safari at Pelindaba goes critical – and South Africa enters the nuclear age.
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War of independence is launched against Portugal in Guinea-Bissau.
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French and Algerian rebel delegations in Evian-les-Baine, France, sign ceasefire agreement in Algerian War.
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The University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein.
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Mahatma Gandhi sends a telegram to Field Marshal Smuts asking him to withdraw the Asiatic Bill. He also issues a press statemen
EventThe North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is founded.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation was formed at the end of World War II. European countries needed insurance and security against The Soviet Union…
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini hold a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agrees to join in German
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on 18 March 1936. de Klerk grew up in a political family. He later studied law and practiced as a lawyer in…
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The strike by mineworkers on the Witwatersrand, also known as the Rand Revolt, ends. More than 200 people were killed durin
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The railway line from Cape Town reaches Stellenbosch.
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The Sand River Convention, recognising the independence of emigrant farmers north of the Vaal River, is ratified by the Volksra
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Maria Koopmans-De Wet, linguist, art lover and cultural leader, is born in Cape Town.
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Janet Soga (neé Burnside) is born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland. She married Tito Yoga, the first Black man to be
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Dr James Barry (allegedly a lady, Miranda Stuart) is appointed by Lord Charles Somerset as medical inspector of the Colony in t
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In a record-breaking performance, Herschel Gibbs scores 6 sixes in a row against Holland during a 221-run World Cup win over
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