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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo

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Ministers from 109 countries sign a 26,000-page world trade agreement known as the Uruguay Round accords in Morocco.

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Governments across the world apply United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destru

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EC lifts sanctions previously imposed on South Africa (1985) as goodwill gesture for promised improvements to a multi-racial so

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The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.

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Odirile Maponya of Umkhonto weSizwe is killed when a bomb, intended for the Sterland complex, Arcadia, Pretoria, explodes in hi

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US attempts an air strike at Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi’s home in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya

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South Africa’s Foreign Minister announces that South African troop withdrawal from Angola is to be completed within a week.

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Five people found guilty of Anwar Sadat’s assassination are executed.

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The fifteen-year rule of President Hamani Diori in Niger comes to end when he is deposed in a coup.

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Matthews “Loop en Val” Motshwareteu, the Black athlete who broke the national 5 000 m record in Stellenbosch, has, after only f

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SA formally implements the Montreal Protocol for the control of ozone-duplicating substances.

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Werner Swanepoel, rugby player of Free State, is born.

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Ugandan Prime Minister Milton Obote is declared president under a new constitution.

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André Joubert, Springbok rugby player, is born.

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O.H.M. Chabane, MRC for Public Works, Northern Province Provincial Government and founder member of AZASO, is born. He was arre

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Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15 commences. It contains banning powers over publications dee

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Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the African National Congress in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the Black

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The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general election.

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Prof. Adriaan Francken, authority on painting and classic languages, dies in Bloemfontein.

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Italian forces occupy the Abyssinian town of Dessye, having advanced 125 miles in the last five days.

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Richard Owen Dudley, president of the New Unity Movement, 1985, and active campaigner against separate schooling based on colou

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A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service issues the first weather forecast for the Union as a whole from the branch office in C

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Alexander John (Sandy) Bell, SA cricket player in sixteen test matches (1929-1935), is born in East London.

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The tobacco industry in Hekpoort and Magaliesburg is in full swing again. The crop since the war (Anglo-Boer War 2) has bee

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The Katanga Company is formed in Brussels to exploit copper deposits in the Katanga area of Central Africa.

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Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi

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William Govan Bennie, educationist and author, is born in Lovedale, Cape.

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Dutch is proclaimed “the chief language” in the Orange Free State.

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Prof. W.S. Logemann, professor in Dutch, French, German and history at the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, is born in Haarl

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo

Ministers from 109 countries sign a 26,000-page world trade agreement known as the Uruguay Round accords in Morocco.

Governments across the world apply United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destru

EC lifts sanctions previously imposed on South Africa (1985) as goodwill gesture for promised improvements to a multi-racial so

The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.

Odirile Maponya of Umkhonto weSizwe is killed when a bomb, intended for the Sterland complex, Arcadia, Pretoria, explodes in hi

US attempts an air strike at Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi’s home in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya

South Africa’s Foreign Minister announces that South African troop withdrawal from Angola is to be completed within a week.

Five people found guilty of Anwar Sadat’s assassination are executed.

The fifteen-year rule of President Hamani Diori in Niger comes to end when he is deposed in a coup.

Matthews “Loop en Val” Motshwareteu, the Black athlete who broke the national 5 000 m record in Stellenbosch, has, after only f

SA formally implements the Montreal Protocol for the control of ozone-duplicating substances.

Werner Swanepoel, rugby player of Free State, is born.

Ugandan Prime Minister Milton Obote is declared president under a new constitution.

André Joubert, Springbok rugby player, is born.

O.H.M. Chabane, MRC for Public Works, Northern Province Provincial Government and founder member of AZASO, is born. He was arre

Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15 commences. It contains banning powers over publications dee

Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the African National Congress in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the Black

The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general election.

Prof. Adriaan Francken, authority on painting and classic languages, dies in Bloemfontein.

Italian forces occupy the Abyssinian town of Dessye, having advanced 125 miles in the last five days.

Richard Owen Dudley, president of the New Unity Movement, 1985, and active campaigner against separate schooling based on colou

A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service issues the first weather forecast for the Union as a whole from the branch office in C

Alexander John (Sandy) Bell, SA cricket player in sixteen test matches (1929-1935), is born in East London.

The tobacco industry in Hekpoort and Magaliesburg is in full swing again. The crop since the war (Anglo-Boer War 2) has bee

The Katanga Company is formed in Brussels to exploit copper deposits in the Katanga area of Central Africa.

Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi

William Govan Bennie, educationist and author, is born in Lovedale, Cape.

Dutch is proclaimed “the chief language” in the Orange Free State.

Prof. W.S. Logemann, professor in Dutch, French, German and history at the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, is born in Haarl