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The Coloured Liberation Movement for the Advancement of Brown People, launched to generate the interest of South Africa’s Colou
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Statement of intent between the governments of South Africa and the United States to establish the South Africa-US Bi-national
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Three days before the 4 March deadline for registering parties, Chief Buthelezi announces in Durban that he is considering regi
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South Africa ends eighty-four years of control over Walvis Bay by handing the port over to Namibia.
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SA signs eight agreements with Namibia.
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A delegation of the Special Committee against Apartheid begins its ten-day visit to South Africa. The mission, who established
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State President F.W. de Klerk announces plans to bring covert operations by government agents under Cabinet control.
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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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