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UN General Assembly approves $416m for UN’s one-year plan to free Namibia from seventy-four years of South African rule.
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A bus service replaces the train commuter service between Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, and the Pretoria city centre. Commut
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In his first public meeting since his appointment as leader of the National Party, F.W. de Klerk calls for a "Great Indaba
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The Bophuthatswana administration offers a reward of R50 000 for information leading to the arrest of Malebane-Metsing.
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The South African government introduces a bill to outlaw foreign funding of political activity.
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An 18-seater plane, owned by Bop Air and chartered to Comair, explodes in mid-air near Germiston, killing all seventeen people
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The British Anti-Apartheid Movement launches an international boycott of the Shell corporation.
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Drs Andries Treurnicht and Ferdi Hartzenberg resign from their positions in the National Party Government. Date is also given a
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Dr M.S. (Tinie) Louw, SA businessman and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut (AH
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KwaZulu: Black Taxation Amendment Act No 13 commences.
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Jody Scheckter wins the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in his Tyrrell Cosworth. He is only the second South African-born d
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Palestinian terrorists invade diplomatic reception in Khartoum, Sudan, and capture five diplomats.
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The first academic year of the University of Port Elizabeth begins with the registration of 320 students. The first Principal o
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Sam Nujoma escapes from South-West Africa (now Namibia) to Botswana.
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Pilots Doug McKellar and "Dizzy" Deans of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the UN in the
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Thomas Mandlenkosi (Mshengu) Shabalala, IFP National Council member, is born in Ekuphumuleni, Ladysmith, Natal.
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The University College, Johannesburg, attains full university status under the name The University of the Witwatersrand, Johann
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Belgium cedes Rwanda, East Africa, to Britain.
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Archibald Jacob Gumede, Secretary of the Natal African Congress, 1951-60, and President of the United Democratic Front, 1983, i
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The Volksraad of the South African Republic (ZAR) passes a law denying the judicature the right to test Volksraad resolutions
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Ethiopian forces defeat Italians at Adwa, northern Ethiopia, ending Italy’s quest to create a substantial African colony.
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A.G. Visser, teacher, medical doctor and Afrikaans poet, is born in Fraserburg.
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Abraham Kriel, founder of the Abraham Kriel Orphanage in Langlaagte, is born in Franschhoek, CC.
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The Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating.
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Gaslights appear in Cape Town for the first time.
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On order of the Batavian Republic General Jacob Uitenhage de Mist installs J.W. Janssens as new governor of the Cape of Good
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Thousands of Cape Peninsula train commuters are left stranded when the deliberate destruction of a major cable throws the train
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President Teodoro Obiang Nguema thanks SA and Angola for warning him of the plot to overthrow his government and says it was fu
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South Africa wins the third cricket test match against Pakistan in Port Elizabeth, Fanie de Villiers’ last match, with 259 runs
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