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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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Six people die and twenty five are critically injured in a road accident on the R70 between Polokwane and Giyani when the truck
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A recount of Namibia’s parliamentary elections has ended with officials confirming the original results of the November polls.
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Jan Egeland, the United Nations’ relief co-ordinator, announces in Geneva that conflict and preventable disease have triggered
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National Library Week (17-22 March) starts.
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About 500 members of a doomsday cult die in a church fire in a remote part of southwestern Uganda. Mass graves containing 4
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Start of the first lottery in SA.
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Prof. Hans Roosenschoon, director of the conservatory in Stellenbosch, informs the members of the university choir that the cho
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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is found guilty in the Cape Supreme Court of embezzling
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Denel says no deal has been reached over the sale of arms to Syria.
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Allan Boesak appears in a Cape Town court to face nine charges of fraud and twenty-one charges of theft involving more than $80
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Mugabe is re-elected as president in Zimbabwe with 92.7% of the vote but the opposition contests the results.
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Hundreds of police in Assiut, Egypt storm two buildings where bomb-throwing extremists are holed up. At least eleven people are
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White voters in a referendum overwhelmingly support reforms towards ending apartheid in South Africa.
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More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The
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Business Day reports that the Soweto delegation for ending the rent boycott has released a report, drawn up by Planact, a priva
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The condition of Donsie Khumalo, on a hunger strike since 9 March with other unionists in support of the release of all detaine
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A car bomb explodes outside the Krugersdorp magistrate’s court, killing three people and wounding 22.
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The ‘Sharpeville Six’ win a one-day stay of execution in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The stay is granted a day before
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A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel
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It is reported that during February 1979, Dr. Eschel Rhoodie has claimed in interviews in Quito, Ecador, that he was the initia
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Angolan troops invading Zaire take important copper-mining centre of Kolwezi.
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Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut
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President Fouché pays a state visit to Malawi (17-24 March) and appeals for peaceful co-existence and cooperation betwee
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