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South African President F.W. de Klerk declares a state of emergency in Natal and orders army into the Zulu stronghold.

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Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) by the Goldstone Commission, Presiden

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UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused o

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South Africa deports self-confessed CCB agent Donald Acheson to London. Irish-born Acheson was implicated in the assassination

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The ANC decides not to hold talks with the South African government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d

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Chris Heunis, minister of Constitutional Development and Planning says that R555m is owing in rent arrears, of which R452m is o

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Johan Papenfus, a SA Defence Force rifleman captured in Angola nearly a year previously, returns to South Africa from Cuba. His

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Mthabatha Seema PAC member disappears, last seen first in the company of a policeman at the Seshego magistrate’s court and late

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A Defence White Paper analyses South Africa’s defence requirements in the context of the Soviet and Cuban intervention in Angol

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Bantu Homelands Constitution Act (National States Constitutional Act) No 21, providing for the granting of increased powers to

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Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd’s Nationalist Party wins election in South Africa.

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The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid publishes a report recommending that the Security Council call on South Afric

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South Africa signs treaty with Denmark, Norway and Sweden on the temporary amendment of 1958 air agreements.

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Four more regiments of the Citizens’ Force are mobilised. Legal authorities in Johannesburg state the emergency regulations cre

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6000 Indians march in Durban to protest against the Asiatic Bill, and support the South African Indian Congress resolution for

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Germans launch counteroffensive in North Africa in World War II.

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John Christoffel Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in

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General JBM Hertzog, as prime minister, forms the first Nationalist government.

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Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Christiaan de Wet and his men, in a battle that marks the first of the guerrilla phase of the Second

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Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr

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Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions to work toward federation.

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John Stephen Curlewis, chief judge of the appeal court (1936-1938), is born in Paarl.

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Building on the railway station in Wellington starts. The first train from the Cape arrives 4 years later.

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Petrus van den Burg, organist of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Pretoria and composer, is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlan

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Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100

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The Rev. Daniel Lindley institutes the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes it

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Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.

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Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions to work toward federation.

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The expedition under August F. Beutler into the interior of the country, finds survivors of the French ship Le Nécessair

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South African President F.W. de Klerk declares a state of emergency in Natal and orders army into the Zulu stronghold.

Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) by the Goldstone Commission, Presiden

UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused o

South Africa deports self-confessed CCB agent Donald Acheson to London. Irish-born Acheson was implicated in the assassination

The ANC decides not to hold talks with the South African government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d

Chris Heunis, minister of Constitutional Development and Planning says that R555m is owing in rent arrears, of which R452m is o

Johan Papenfus, a SA Defence Force rifleman captured in Angola nearly a year previously, returns to South Africa from Cuba. His

Mthabatha Seema PAC member disappears, last seen first in the company of a policeman at the Seshego magistrate’s court and late

A Defence White Paper analyses South Africa’s defence requirements in the context of the Soviet and Cuban intervention in Angol

Bantu Homelands Constitution Act (National States Constitutional Act) No 21, providing for the granting of increased powers to

Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd’s Nationalist Party wins election in South Africa.

The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid publishes a report recommending that the Security Council call on South Afric

South Africa signs treaty with Denmark, Norway and Sweden on the temporary amendment of 1958 air agreements.

Four more regiments of the Citizens’ Force are mobilised. Legal authorities in Johannesburg state the emergency regulations cre

6000 Indians march in Durban to protest against the Asiatic Bill, and support the South African Indian Congress resolution for

Germans launch counteroffensive in North Africa in World War II.

John Christoffel Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in

General JBM Hertzog, as prime minister, forms the first Nationalist government.

Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.

Anglo-Boer War 2: General Christiaan de Wet and his men, in a battle that marks the first of the guerrilla phase of the Second

Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr

Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions to work toward federation.

John Stephen Curlewis, chief judge of the appeal court (1936-1938), is born in Paarl.

Building on the railway station in Wellington starts. The first train from the Cape arrives 4 years later.

Petrus van den Burg, organist of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Pretoria and composer, is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlan

Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100

The Rev. Daniel Lindley institutes the first congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State, which makes it

Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.

Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions to work toward federation.

The expedition under August F. Beutler into the interior of the country, finds survivors of the French ship Le Nécessair