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Mr Mlungiseleli Venkile and Mr Zwelinjani Tshandu, ANC members, are shot while asleep by unknown gunmen.

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SA signs an agreement with Hungary on the abolition of visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and service passports.

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Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab

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Six ANC members are gunned down by a group of men in Folweni, Natal.

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The Goldstone Commission of Inquiry has its first hearing on the South African Defence Force’s involvement in promoting Black o

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Algeria’s president proposes new national constitution, dropping references to socialism and opening the door to a multiparty s

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Addressing several thousand of National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members at a rally at the University of the Witwatersrand, N

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As the rent boycott continues, The Star suggests that there are four categories of people not paying rent: those refusing to pa

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Paramount chief in KwaNdebele, Chief David Mabhoko, is restricted to his kraal shortly before he was due to address thousands o

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Transkei police kill three men, one of who is Mr Zolile Sangoni, when they fire on the occupants of a car outside Umtata, while

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State President P.W. Botha outlines a new economic policy in his opening of Parliament speech, centred on privatisation, deregu

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Comic Relief is launched to combat famine in Africa.

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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha accuses Botswana of harbouring ANC guerrillas.

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Neil Aggett, South African worker’s union leader, commits suicide while in detention, allegedly by hanging himself with a scarf

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Police announce the arrest of a number of Whites in connection with sabotage acts for which the Wit Kommando has claimed respon

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The official opposition Progressive Federal Party refuses to congratulate John Vorster on his appointment as State President on

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The government, for the first time, releases the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Int

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The Defence Amendment Bill, making provision for the employment of South African conscripted troops anywhere outside South Afri

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Dr. Albert Stals (71), SA Minister of Health, dies in Cape Town.

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Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part

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In protest against anti-US campaigns in Ghana, the US recalls its ambassador.

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The South African government informs the United Nations Secretary-General that it is unable to agree to a visit by the group of

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A White family is killed in their caravan whilst camping on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei. Forty African

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France’s President Charles de Gaulle calls for independence for Algeria.

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Gamel Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.

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Joachim Paulus Sch&ouml;nfeldt, SA sculptor, is born in Pretoria.

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Nine Mau Mau prisoners, serving life sentences, escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria.

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Theo Wendt (76), first conductor of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, first musical director of the Broadcasting Organisation a

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The Rev. Mr Josephus Johannes Kuhn, poet and versifier of the first Afrikaans Psalms, dies.

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Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (Jannie), Chief of the South African Defence Force, 1985, and Member of the State Security Council,

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Mr Mlungiseleli Venkile and Mr Zwelinjani Tshandu, ANC members, are shot while asleep by unknown gunmen.

SA signs an agreement with Hungary on the abolition of visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and service passports.

Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab

Six ANC members are gunned down by a group of men in Folweni, Natal.

The Goldstone Commission of Inquiry has its first hearing on the South African Defence Force’s involvement in promoting Black o

Algeria’s president proposes new national constitution, dropping references to socialism and opening the door to a multiparty s

Addressing several thousand of National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members at a rally at the University of the Witwatersrand, N

As the rent boycott continues, The Star suggests that there are four categories of people not paying rent: those refusing to pa

Paramount chief in KwaNdebele, Chief David Mabhoko, is restricted to his kraal shortly before he was due to address thousands o

Transkei police kill three men, one of who is Mr Zolile Sangoni, when they fire on the occupants of a car outside Umtata, while

State President P.W. Botha outlines a new economic policy in his opening of Parliament speech, centred on privatisation, deregu

Comic Relief is launched to combat famine in Africa.

Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha accuses Botswana of harbouring ANC guerrillas.

Neil Aggett, South African worker’s union leader, commits suicide while in detention, allegedly by hanging himself with a scarf

Police announce the arrest of a number of Whites in connection with sabotage acts for which the Wit Kommando has claimed respon

The official opposition Progressive Federal Party refuses to congratulate John Vorster on his appointment as State President on

The government, for the first time, releases the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Int

The Defence Amendment Bill, making provision for the employment of South African conscripted troops anywhere outside South Afri

Dr. Albert Stals (71), SA Minister of Health, dies in Cape Town.

Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part

In protest against anti-US campaigns in Ghana, the US recalls its ambassador.

The South African government informs the United Nations Secretary-General that it is unable to agree to a visit by the group of

A White family is killed in their caravan whilst camping on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei. Forty African

France’s President Charles de Gaulle calls for independence for Algeria.

Gamel Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.

Joachim Paulus Sch&amp;ouml;nfeldt, SA sculptor, is born in Pretoria.

Nine Mau Mau prisoners, serving life sentences, escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria.

Theo Wendt (76), first conductor of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, first musical director of the Broadcasting Organisation a

The Rev. Mr Josephus Johannes Kuhn, poet and versifier of the first Afrikaans Psalms, dies.

Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (Jannie), Chief of the South African Defence Force, 1985, and Member of the State Security Council,

Joachim Paulus Schönfeldt, SA sculptor, is born in Pretoria.