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The Minister amends the regulations to the Employment Equity Act, 1998, to i.a. simplify requirements for employers who employ
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Sarel Hayward, former SA minister of agriculture, dies.
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Janusz Walus, convicted murderer of Chris Hani, leader of the SA Communist Party, is divorced from his wife of twenty-two years
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Britain announces a decision to write off the debt of six African countries, a package of millions of pounds.
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Muziwendoda Mdluli of the National Intelligence Agency is found shot dead in his car in Silverton, Pretoria. He was investigati
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The Netherlands announces partial lifting of sports sanctions; SA sportspersons will no longer require visas.
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SA Foreign Minister R.F. (Pik) Botha visits Beijing. Date is given as 4 October in some sources.
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SA signs an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees governing the legal status, privileges and immunit
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Political assassination: Three guards of an ANC lawyer are shot dead by eight men in Durban.
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Political assassination: Nic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement, is
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After the Conversion of Iscor Act was passed on 17 May 1989, Iscor shares are sold on the stock market, realising R3,7bn.
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President Reagan’s decision not to impose sanctions on South Africa is overridden by Senate veto, 78 votes to 21, and the US in
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The death toll in rioting and clashes with police has risen to over sixty. The Government took the leader of South Africa’s mos
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KwaZulu: Police Amendment Act No 11 commences.
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The Prime Minister appoints fifty-six members to the President’s Council, comprising forty-one Whites, seven Coloureds, seven I
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The South African Barbarians rugby team completes its controversial tour of Britain with minimal disruption but against a backg
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The Transkei will resist the government’s plan for a mass removal of nearly 20,000 Blacks from the Crossroads settlement near C
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Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces in Umtata that the Transkei will become fully independent on 26 October 1976.
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Lebowa is proclaimed a self-governing territory. The Northern Sotho ‘homeland’ Lebowa becomes the fourth ‘bantustan’, with Bhes
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Kuwait breaks off diplomatic relations with South Africa and all Kuwaiti air and seaports are closed to South African aircraft
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Guinée Française achieves independence from France as Guinea with Ahmed Sékou Touré as president.
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Humphrey Mbuyiseni Khoza, current chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other compani
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A national congress, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church starts in Bloemfontein, to discuss the serious poor White prob
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Die Volksblad, Afrikaans newspaper, is published in Bloemfontein for the first time.
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Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and politician, is born in Maseru, Basutoland (Lesotho).
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Hymne Weiss, SA author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, is born in Rouxville, OFS.
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James Cameron (75), SA educationist and minister of religion, dies in Bournemouth England.
EventIgnatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA satirical poet, is born in Durban.
Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell was born in Durban, Natal, and was considered one of South Africa’s most esteemed English poets. The son of Dr Samuel…
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Abraham Makgothi Moletsane (Molitsane, Makhothi), chief of the Taung born about 1788, dies in Makwais (Maboloka) Mountain nea
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