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ANC secretary-general Alfred Nzo and SA Communist Party general secretary Joe Slovo address a rally near Soweto. Slovo tells th
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P.W. Botha resigns from the National Party in protest against President F.W. de Klerk’s reform proposals.
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An ILO tripartite Conference on Action Against Apartheid, held in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 3-6 May, ends.
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The General Election results in 123 seats for the National Party, 22 for the Conservative Party, 19 for the Progressive Federal
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Andries Raditsela (29), COSATU, CWIU, dies of head injuries after being violently confronted by police while producing document
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The KwaNdebele Legislative Assembly passes a unanimous motion instructing the homeland’s Cabinet to begin independence negotiat
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Libyan nationals and diplomats are expelled from the US.
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A section of railway line is blown up near Hoedspruit, Northern Transvaal, in what is believed to be an ANC attack to coincide
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Black PEBCO activist Thozamile Botha breaks his banning order and escapes to Lesotho.
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The Advocate-General’s report confirms that the Herstigte Nasionale Party’s office telephones have been illegally tapped and ca
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South Africa is condemned by the United States of America for its recent raid into Angola.
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Eschel Rhoodie, the Secretary for Information, reveals that he has been operating a secret fund for which he was accountable on
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The government announces that its aim is to provide all Black children with free and compulsory education as soon as possible.
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The British Lions rugby team leaves London to begin a controversial twenty-two-match tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.
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South Africa passes the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill.
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Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies in Kilgetty, Pembrokeshire, England.
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United Nations representatives of the committee to investigate the conditions in South West Africa, Victorio Carpio (Philippine
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The notorious ‘Panga Man’, who robbed and raped numerous people, is arrested. He was later executed.
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Irene Charnley, Executive Director of Johnnic, trustee of several funds and winner of the Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000,
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The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency
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Margaret Rheeder, found guilty of poisoning her husband, Benjamin Fredenman, is hung in Pretoria.
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King Farouk of Egypt claims to be a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed.
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King Farouk of Egypt weds a seventeen-year-old commoner, Narriman Sadek.
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