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The National Party’s Roelf Meyer meets with Bantu Holomisa to discuss the formation of a new political movement.
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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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Sir Bartle Frere is named British High Commissioner of South Africa with instructions to work toward federation.
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha, whose portfolio now includes the South African Information Services, promises to give opposition
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The Mandela document: A document presented by Nelson Mandela to P.W. Botha before their meeting on 5 July 1989
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South African President P. W. Botha grants reprieves to the "Sharpeville Six", the six Black South Africans who were
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Petrus van der Spuy, the first clergyman to be born in SA, is born in Cape Town.
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SA signs agreement with the government of Switzerland concerning support to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).
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The Bophuthatswana Legislative Assembly concludes a two-day Special Session during which it formally votes to open negotiations
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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution declaring that the constitutional proposals are contrary to the princip
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The United Nations establishes a special committee to deal with South West Africa, with Victorio Carpio as chairman.
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A consortium of philanthropic foundations announces an initiative to provide treatment for an estimated 2.5 million pregnant wo
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Multi-Party negotiators agree to the re-incorporation of the TBVC states (Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda).
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Twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death in Kenya for their part in the Lari massacre.
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Internal Security Amendment Act No 39, empowering the president to close certain educational institutions in certain circumstan
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It is revealed that the government of President de Klerk donated money to the Inkatha Freedom Party.
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According the Safety and Security Minister , replies to a parliamentary question posed by the Democratic Alliance, that 1 
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South Africa signs multilateral treaty on consent to marriage, minimum age for marriage and registration of marriages.
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The Prime Minister appoints a judicial commission to investigate the allegations of corruption. Its three members, Justice R.P.
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The government withdraws three controversial Parliamentary Bills, relating to freedom of movement of the Black population, for
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A Pilate aeroplane crashes into a mountain close to Nairobi, Kenya. Nine South Africans, including the aviation photographer He
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Students at the University of Bophuthatswana celebrate the coup to topple Bophuthatswana’s president, Lucas Mangope, taking ove
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The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference decides to uphold the rights of conscientious objectors, expresses its pertur
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Danish farmers donate 12 000 boxes of butter to British troops in South Africa.
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Pres. Mugabe announces that he will not renounce his decision to expropriate the farms of 1 503 farmers.
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According to Jane’s Defence Weekly, Armscor, the South African armaments producer, is the country’s largest single exporter.
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Julius Kambarage Nyerere, Tanganyikan president, resigns because of opposition to his policies. He spends the year converting t
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Twenty-two Black South Africans appear in the Delmas Court for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government.
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First Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announces the establishment of an independent judicial inquiry to investigate alle
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