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Sir Henry Frere, governor of the Cape Colony, lays the corner stone of the present Dale College in King William’s Town.
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Schalk Willem Botha, vice-president of the ZAR and later acting state president upon President Paul Kruger’s departure for Euro
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Vladimir Putin, the Russian president arrives in Cape Town and addresses parliament on a first ever visit of a Russian leader t
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Swazi King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, has picked a 16-year-old girl, Miss Teen Swaziland as his new wife, brin
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Bill Keith (73), Springbok athlete, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya rejects an offer by the USA and England to try the two Pan-Am Lockerbie suspects in the Netherlan
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Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) dies of a heart attack at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta, India. Th
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At least 172 people are slain in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long,
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During the lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi apolo
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Seven Nigerian UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu.
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Seven Nigerian UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu.
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SA and Czechoslovakia resume diplomatic relations severed since 1963.
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Hundreds of thousands of Blacks begin two-day strike in SA on eve of segregated elections.
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Hundreds of thousands of Blacks begin two-day strike in SA on eve of segregated elections.
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KwaNdebele: Labour Regulations Repeal Act No 3 commences.
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KwaNdebele: Labour Regulations Repeal Act No 3 commences.
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P.W. Botha is unanimously elected to the post of Executive President by an Electoral College.
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The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.
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The trial of Commodore Dieter Gerhardt begins in the Cape Town Supreme Court on charges of spying for the Soviet Union.
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference
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The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader
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The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader
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The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p
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Prime Minister John Vorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry under Justice H.J. Potgieter, of The Appellate Division of the Sup
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Prime Minister John Vorster appoints a Commission of Inquiry under Justice H.J. Potgieter, of The Appellate Division of the Sup
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Ernest George Bock, SA cricket player in one test (1935/1936), dies in Springs.
ArchiveCongress demands : Release our leaders
White poster with red lettering. List of UDF leaders
ArchiveEnd apartheid
Black lettering on white background overprinted with very light grey printing. Words "South Africa must be free divest now". Large red map of Africa with black…
ArchiveSuid-Afrikaanse Polisie
White poster with black lettering. Coloured photo of policeman holding small girl, very upset, with long hair. Police badge at top of poster. Issued in two…
ArchiveNuclear South Africa
Title in white letters on black background. Outline of map of South Africa with major cities represented by large circles. Map surrounded by image of sea. List…