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The Mozambique-South Africa Joint Security Commission meets for the first time in Maputo, as further raids are carried out agai

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The Lesotho government accuses South Africa of launching raids into Lesotho. South Africa denies this.

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Eight political detainees are released. They will all appear as state witnesses in the ‘Barbara Hogan case’ on 30 April 1982.

This day in history

Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White Hous

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The opposition moves to impeach President Vorster for his controversial intervention. However it requires the signature of thir

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Senator Owen Horwood announces a 36% rise in proposed defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th

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William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a

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The Prime Minister of Swaziland visits Cape Town for talks with John Vorster and confirms that a policy of friendship and coope

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SA signs treaty with Portugal (for Mozambique), amending Article XXXII of the Mozambique Convention.

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On this date all Africans become citizens of their ethnic ‘homelands’. However, they will not become foreigners in the Republic

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South Africa signs an air transport agreement with Austria.

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Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.

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South African Indian Council Act No 31 commences. It establishes a Council consisting of 25 members appointed by the Minister o

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Three Bills dealing with the future of the Coloured population are introduced: the Prohibition of Improper Interference Bill; t

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Sheiks Mutondi Makhado, businessman and well-known leader in the area of Black economic empowerment, is born in Johannesburg. H

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American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The cattle looting expedition commanded by Gen. Bruce Hamilton, King Dinizulu and Chief Sikhobobo arrives bac

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Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World;

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Jackie Tindall, SA rugby Springbok is born in Stellenbosch.

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A proclamation is published in the Official Gazette of the ZAR, prohibiting the hunting of game in the area between the Crocodi

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Reinhold Gregorowski is appointed a judge in the Orange Free State at the age of 25.

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Sir Arnold Theiler, father of the research institute at Onderstepoort, Pretoria, is born in Frick, Switzerland.

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Christiaan Willem Hendrik van der Post, member of the Volksraad in the Free State, consul of the Netherlands and poet, is born

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Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, Free State commander and founder of the town Marquard, is born.

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British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res

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The first congregation of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Transvaal is instituted in Potchefstroom. The Rev. Daniel Lind

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The town of Wellington is founded.

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About $11.39m (about R69m) is stolen in a carefully planned robbery from an SAA plane at Johannesburg International Airport.

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The Griqua people gather in Philippolis (25-27 March) to celebrate with the theme “Griqua return to your heritage”. (News Bulle

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Pedestrian Week (25-31 March) during Alive Pedestrian Month starts, aiming to raise public awareness around pedestrian issues.

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The Mozambique-South Africa Joint Security Commission meets for the first time in Maputo, as further raids are carried out agai

The Lesotho government accuses South Africa of launching raids into Lesotho. South Africa denies this.

Eight political detainees are released. They will all appear as state witnesses in the ‘Barbara Hogan case’ on 30 April 1982.

Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White Hous

The opposition moves to impeach President Vorster for his controversial intervention. However it requires the signature of thir

Senator Owen Horwood announces a 36% rise in proposed defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th

William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a

The Prime Minister of Swaziland visits Cape Town for talks with John Vorster and confirms that a policy of friendship and coope

SA signs treaty with Portugal (for Mozambique), amending Article XXXII of the Mozambique Convention.

On this date all Africans become citizens of their ethnic ‘homelands’. However, they will not become foreigners in the Republic

South Africa signs an air transport agreement with Austria.

Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.

South African Indian Council Act No 31 commences. It establishes a Council consisting of 25 members appointed by the Minister o

Three Bills dealing with the future of the Coloured population are introduced: the Prohibition of Improper Interference Bill; t

Sheiks Mutondi Makhado, businessman and well-known leader in the area of Black economic empowerment, is born in Johannesburg. H

American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica

Anglo-Boer War 2: The cattle looting expedition commanded by Gen. Bruce Hamilton, King Dinizulu and Chief Sikhobobo arrives bac

Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World;

Jackie Tindall, SA rugby Springbok is born in Stellenbosch.

A proclamation is published in the Official Gazette of the ZAR, prohibiting the hunting of game in the area between the Crocodi

Reinhold Gregorowski is appointed a judge in the Orange Free State at the age of 25.

Sir Arnold Theiler, father of the research institute at Onderstepoort, Pretoria, is born in Frick, Switzerland.

Christiaan Willem Hendrik van der Post, member of the Volksraad in the Free State, consul of the Netherlands and poet, is born

Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, Free State commander and founder of the town Marquard, is born.

British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res

The first congregation of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Transvaal is instituted in Potchefstroom. The Rev. Daniel Lind

The town of Wellington is founded.

About $11.39m (about R69m) is stolen in a carefully planned robbery from an SAA plane at Johannesburg International Airport.

The Griqua people gather in Philippolis (25-27 March) to celebrate with the theme “Griqua return to your heritage”. (News Bulle

Pedestrian Week (25-31 March) during Alive Pedestrian Month starts, aiming to raise public awareness around pedestrian issues.