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Clashes between pro-Inkatha hostel dwellers and residents continue in Soweto, with the death toll in the area rising to fifty-t
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Clashes between pro-Inkatha hostel dwellers and residents continue in Soweto, with the death toll in the area rising to fifty-t
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Disclosure of Foreign Funding Act No 26, providing for the regulation of foreign donations by or for certain organisations and
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At the National Party Annual Congress in Durban, President P.W. Botha rules out any possibility of a Black majority government
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At the National Party Annual Congress in Durban, President P.W. Botha rules out any possibility of a Black majority government
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Three managers of the African Bank are sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the biggest fraud case heard in South Afric
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Three managers of the African Bank are sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the biggest fraud case heard in South Afric
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Sudanese rebel group claims responsibility for shooting down Sudan Airways passenger plane in which all sixty people aboard wer
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Three Black men are found guilty of high treason and of having been involved in the sabotage of SASOL fuel installations and th
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Aliens and Travellers Control Act No 29, providing for the control and monitoring of aliens, and for refusal of entry, commence
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Aliens and Travellers Control Act No 29, providing for the control and monitoring of aliens, and for refusal of entry, commence
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Steve Biko is arrested for the last time at a roadblock near King William’s Town.
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The first four Bantu Affairs Administration Boards are gazetted. They are intended to facilitate centralised administrative con
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The father of Rosalind Ballingall, who got lost in the Knysna forest, arrives from Johannesburg to assist in the search for his
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Biafran separatists reject a Nigerian peace offer.
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ANC and ZAPU announce military alliance.
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South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.
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The first two Avro Shackleton Mk III anti-submarine aircraft arrive in SA.
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The SA rugby team loses the third test against New Zealand 10-17 in Christchurch.
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Samuel Ngibisa Mabela at the Birdhaven plantation in Illovo, Johannesburg, finds the corpse of murdered Bubbles Schroeder, miss
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An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during
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Born this day, Luc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causing AIDS, the disease with
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The Springbok rugby team beats New Zealand 11-6 in Port Elizabeth.
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Magdalena Jacomina (Minnie) Postma, early Afrikaans author, is born in Ficksburg, OFS.
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Fax Odendaal, the first chairman of PACT, is born.
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France annexes Madagascar.
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Dr Bertha Stoneman, SA botanist and educationist and appointed principal of the Huguenot University College in 1916, is born in
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The first ‘Staatskoerant’ is published in Pretoria.
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Jonker Afrikaner, chief of the Afrikaner tribe of Hottentots, dies in Okahandja, German West Africa. He was born c. 1790 in
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