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Britain and France recognise independence of Zanzibar.
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The farm Lang Leegte (of which the suburb Langlaagte now forms part) where the first gold was discovered, is registered in the
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Christoffel Coetzee, compiler of SA genealogies, is born.
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Chief of the SA Air Force (SAAF) Lieutenant-General Carlo Gagiano announces Waterkloof air force base the country’s most promin
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Forty miners are trapped 2 400m underground after the earthquake at Stilfontein. One miner died and another is still missing.
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An earth tremor measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale strikes South Africa with its epicentre believed to be at the Hartebeesfonte
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Government spokesman Joel Netshitenzhe confirms that Pretoria is still the name of the SA capital, not Tshwane. The metro counc
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In response to a question by Mr R Jankielsohn (DP) in the National Assembly, President Mbeki replies that he spent 300 days in
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Dr Gideon Roos, former director-general of the SABC and founder member of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), dies
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The Mozambican police arrests Robert McBride, high-ranking official in the SA Department of External Affairs, on the alleged ch
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Mafikeng shuts down, and sporadic protests in the town and in neighbouring Mmabatho are halted by police and military troops.
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Widespread revolt grips Bophuthatswana as demonstrators which demand the re-incorporation of the nominally independent homeland
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Exchange of notes establishing diplomatic relations with Thailand.
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’Doctor’ Mkopidi Motsisi, witness to killing of an ANC activist, is shot dead in Sharpeville, PWV.
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Police seal all entrances to Alexandra township near Johannesburg after an Inkatha supporter is necklaced, at least nine people
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The Weekly Mail reports that, since the beginning of February 1990, thirty people have died in Bophuthatswana. Violence and sch
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Police announce that they have picked up twenty-five bodies from various parts of Katlehong township, mostly from the area arou
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Maropoli Mapalakanye, an organiser for MWASA, is reported missing. No reply is received from the minister of law and order to a
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Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C
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Proclamation R29 is gazetted, enabling Africans in towns on trust land to obtain full property rights, affecting and estimated
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A methane-gas explosion at Gencor’s Ermelo mines kills thirty-four miners and injures at least another sixteen.
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Venda Police Act No 4, creating a police service and granting policing powers of search and seizure, commences.
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Dr Andries Treurnicht is suspended from the National Party.
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Republic of Bophuthatswana Constitution Further Amendment Act No 21, providing for the detention of individuals ‘in the interes
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The government gives official notice that it has refused to allow the Herstigte Nasionale Party to be registered as a political
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Paramount Chief Stella Sigcau of Transkei tells the Assembly that legislation is to be introduced making it a capital offence t
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The United States declines to recognise the Republic of Rhodesia and closes its consulate in Salisbury.
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Lt Gen. Moneim Riad, chief of staff of Egypt’s armed forces, is killed during Israeli-Egyptian gun battle across Suez Canal.
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£100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban.
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