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Meeting in a special session, the National Executive Committee of the ANC ratifies the Record of Understanding. It resolves to
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SA signs multilateral agreement with the governments of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei for the avoidance of double
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Iris Magwasa, ANC organiser, is shot dead at home in Ndedwe, Natal.
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The Citizen reports there were two bomb blasts in Umtata, Transkei, in September. The first was when police detonated a limpet
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President P.W. Botha instructs the Houses of Representatives and Delegates to vote on the controversial Group Areas Amendments
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Eight Black South Africans walk out of a New York conference on SA in protest against Pretoria’s refusal to issue passports to
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The ANC reports that it has been approached by an intermediary, acting for a SA cabinet minister, to talk about the possibility
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Edward Perkins is appointed as the first Black ambassador to South Africa.
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President Botha retires as leader of the Cape Division of the National Party.
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Egyptian court sentences 107 Muslim extremists to prison for attempting to set up Islamic regime after 1981 assassination of Pr
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The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein restores Ingwavuma to South Africa
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The sixth and final report of the Wiehahn Commission, inquiring into labour legislation, is tabled in Parliament. Dealing with
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Azapo (Azanian People’s Organisation) is established in Roodepoort for the second time, after the first founding in 1977 did no
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South Africa signs treaty with Japan on certain portions of land granted to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at Yokohama.
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Radclyffe M. Cadman is elected national leader of the New Republic Party (NRP).
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The Ciskei ‘homeland’ government proclaims the introduction of emergency powers, after violent incidents and rioting. The power
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The ban on open-air gatherings is further extended until 31 March 1978.
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The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Geneva, bans South Africa from further meetings of the organisation and is
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Winnie Mandela is released from her banning order and house arrest.
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The United Nations General Assembly asks the Security Council to review the relationship between the United Nations and South A
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A passenger train derails, killing forty-eight, at Rust Station, South Africa.
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It is officially announced that the British and South African naval units will engage in a month of joint manoeuvres in South A
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Justice G. Viljoen in the Pretoria Supreme Court sentences B.S. Ramotse to fifteen years imprisonment. He is found guilty of ta
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Botswana, previously known as Bechuanaland, achieves independence (within the Commonwealth) from Britain.
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Tanganyika formally ends all imports and exports, direct and indirect, from and to South Africa.
EventHestrie Cloete, world champion high jumper, is born
Hestrie Cloete was born in Germiston, East of Johannesburg on 26 August 1978. She began participating in sports at an early age. Her long-time coach, Martin…
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Chris Pope, SA Springbok rugby player, is born in Stellenbosch.
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The Berlin Airlift, which delivers 2m tons of food and fuel to West Berliners while circumventing a Soviet blockade, and in whi
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Stephen Gray, SA writer and academic, is born.
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