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It is announced that talks between Government officials and an ANC delegation led by Nelson Mandela will open in Cape Town on 1
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Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the
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A motor bomb explodes outside the magistrate’s court in Krugersdorp, killing two army members and a civilian, and injuring twen
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The International Commission of Jurists states in its report that security forces are torturing children.
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha and President Samora Machel of Mozambique sign the Nkomati Accord
Prime Minister P.W. Botha and President Samora Machel of Mozambique sign the Nkomati Accord at the common border on the banks of the Komati River a step hailed…
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In elections to the 100-member Lebowa National Assembly, Dr. Phatudi’s ruling Lebowa People’s Party wins more than three-quarte
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Dr. Connie Mulder, leader of the recently formed Nasionale Konservatiewe Party (NKP), foresees a new political alliance bringin
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The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p
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A warrant is issued for Dr Rhoodie’s arrest on a charge of fraud, with an alternative charge of theft.
EventBram Fischer is released from prison on health grounds
Abram “Bram” Fischer was a lawyer, chairman of the South African Communist Party and an anti-Apartheid activist. He joined the SACP, a close ally of the…
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Jan Ellis, SA actor, is born in Belville, Cape.
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The Head of the Security Police, General Venter, reports that nobody is still being held incommunicado under the Terrorism Act,
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Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls
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Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.
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Tito Mboweni, President of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen.
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Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 commences: Prohibits gatherings in open-air public places if the Minister of Justice considers th
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Prof. Izak Daniël Bosman (50), professor of history at the University of Pretoria, dies in Pretoria.
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Britain recognises Kingdom of Egypt under Fuad I, with joint Anglo-Egyptian sovereignty over Sudan.
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Alba Bouwer, South African author, is born.
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Helena Dorothea Strauss, singer, choir director and music teacher, is born on the farm “Terugkeer” in Wepener district, OFS.
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James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the ANC in 1949, is born in Th
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Dr Hans Merensky, discoverer of tin near Pretoria, platinum near Lydenburg, diamonds at Alexander Bay, chromium at Pietersburg
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Sen. William (Willie) Angus Hofmeyr, businessman and cultural leader, is born in Montagu, CC.
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Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, the Prince Imperial of France is born in Paris, France. He was killed in Zululand in the Ang
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Hendrik Potgieter and Andries Pretorius are reconciled at a meeting of the Volksraad in Rustenburg.
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Ernst Frederik de Swart opens the first coffee house in the Cape when permission is granted to him to serve refreshments to pas
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25% of the White population in the Cape die of smallpox. Hardest hit are the indigenous Khoisan people.
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Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for "blasphemous libels on Cape ladies" and is sentenced to beg thei
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The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t
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