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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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Despite US reservations, the Vatican establishes diplomatic relations with Libya.
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South African arms manufacturer Denel announces that it will unveil six new products at a United Arab Emirates weapons exhibiti
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South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.
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Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreats from his capital in the face of a popular uprising
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Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach against the fund
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Welcome Ncita, junior featherweight of SA, wins the International Boxing Federation title (IBF).
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The Venda administration unbans the ANC, PAC, SACP and Venda Independent Party.
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Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been
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SA signs an agreement concerning the status of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group to Namibia.
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The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr
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During the night the ANC mounts a sabotage attack on a petrol depot in which five storage tanks are damaged.
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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft
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Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat
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Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders sei
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that following Transkei’s land claims a thorough inqu
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In the Senate the United Party calls for the convening by the Prime Minister of a conference of all race groups to discuss a co
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All South African policemen in Rhodesia are being confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit
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The Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, meets John Vorster for talks of a confidential nature.
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Joshua Oupa Gqozo, former Ciskei military ruler, is born in Kroonstad, OFS.
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Victor Smith makes one of the first successful forced landings in South Africa, en route from Cape Town to London on a solo fli
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Michael Zondi, SA artist, is born in Msinga, Greytown, Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission
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Angry White workers, on strike since 28 December, storm and occupy police stations, railway installations and mines at the Rand
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Nationalists riot in Cairo following deportation from Egypt of Said Zaghul Pasha.
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