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South Africa’s first public bond issue since 1985, led by Deutsche Bank in Europe, was successful.
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South Africa’s first public bond issue since 1985, led by Deutsche Bank in Europe, was successful.
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John Papo Monyakalle, ANC Youth League leader, is found dead in the toilet of his home in Soweto.
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Political assassination: Joseph Twala (35), ANC official, is shot dead at his girlfriend’s home in Mbayi, Natal.
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Political assassination: Joseph Twala (35), ANC official, is shot dead at his girlfriend’s home in Mbayi, Natal.
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The government announces it is to appoint special units to investigate the previous week’s massacre at Denver station, Johannes
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The government announces it is to appoint special units to investigate the previous week’s massacre at Denver station, Johannes
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A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se
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A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se
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Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal, speaking at the opening of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in
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A Black teachers’ association, the Progressive Teachers’ Congress (PROTECO) is secretly launched in the Transvaal to fill the v
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Godfrey Thuso Phuso, high school pupil of Pimville, is shot dead by a passing motorist.
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Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, dies in exile in London.
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The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its
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The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Consolidation of the ‘Homelands’, Hennie van der Walt, speaking at the National
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Egypt’s cabinet unanimously approves President Anwar Sadat’s Camp David agreement to sign a peace treaty with Israel within thr
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The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) elects its first Black chairman, Ronnie Webb, at the Council’s annual congress
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The Coloured Persons’ Representative Council (CPRC) decides to reject the government’s constitutional proposals and call for a
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria to discuss majority ru
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While officially opening the Biennial Congress of the Coordinating Council of South African Trade Unions in Pretoria, the Minis
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The Prime Minister wishes the new Mozambique government well, but warns that South Africa will have to act in self-defence if M
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Four agreements are signed in Lisbon connected with the construction of the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique, the main one being
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Albert van de Sandt Centlivres (79), chief justice of SA (1950-1957), dies.
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. de Wet Nel, says that ‘Tswanaland’, a number of African reserves ski
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Yasmin Jessie Duarte, SA High Commissioner to Mozambique and previous Special Assistant to President Mandela in 1990, is born i
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J.G.N. Strauss is elected leader of the United Party in succession to General Jan Smuts, who died a few days earlier.
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Adv. Dirk Cornelius du Toit, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999
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Ingrid Jonker, SA poet whose poem ‘Die Kind’ was read by President Nelson Mandela during his first opening of parliament, is bo
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WWI: The Cape Corps, two infantry battalions of Cape Coloured men, captures Square Hill in Palestine.
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