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South Africa signs treaty with Malawi relating to the employment and documentation of Malawi nationals in South Africa.
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South Africa announces it will sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and agree not to develop nuclear weapons.
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Dr Dadoo and Miss Asvat are sentenced to three months with hard labour under the Riotous Assemblies Act.
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India asks the UN General Assembly to consider the question of the treatment of Indians in South Africa.
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A Conference of Editors in Pretoria agrees to the terms for a voluntary censorship agreement with the government regarding mili
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The American president, Abraham Lincoln, extends official recognition to Liberia, who had declared itself independent on 26 Jul
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller enters Volksrust, the first town in the ZAR to fall into his hands.
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Chief Wessels Mota of the Tlokwa tribe becomes the first chief to accept the institution of a tribal authority.
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The plan of diamond smugglers to smuggle diamonds using a pigeon, is discovered when the police shoot the bird.
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Hendrik Hop (54), leader of the expedition to the north of the Orange River, dies in Paarl, CC.
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”I Appeal to the African Nation”. Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in Umteteli wa Bantu, November 10, 1934
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Petition to King Edward VII, from the Native United Political Associations of the Transvaal Colony, April 25, 1905
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Nelson Mandela requests the United Nations to send observers during the ANC demonstrations scheduled for the following week.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Marthinus Prinsloo surrenders in the Brandwater Basin, near Clarens. Some generals refuse to surrende
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Bantu Holomisa is dismissed as Deputy Environment and Tourism Minister. His responsibilities are assigned to former ANC Youth L
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Four men from the Japanese Red Army, a militant group dedicated to a worldwide communist revolution, hijack a Japan Airlines pl
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The Prime Minister announces that the government is establishing formal machinery to promote its concept of a ‘constellation of
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Israeli airliner bound for Israel from Rome with forty-eight people aboard is hijacked and diverted to Algeria.
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Minister of the Interior Theo Gerdener, indicates that the Public Service Commission will make a comprehensive study to create
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Government of India announces that in protest against the Union’s indifference to its representations, it was found necessary t
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An action committee called the Soweto Students’ Representative Council is formed to organise the demonstration, with two repres
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Zambian president Kenneth David Kaunda refuses to take part in UK-US discussions on majority rule in Rhodesia.
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The SA Agricultural Union changes its name on the union’s annual meeting in Rustenburg to Agri South Africa.
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Speech to the Foreign Policy Association by the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela Denmark, 17 February 1992
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New Year message from ANC President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela to the people of South Africa 30 December 1991
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The Transvaal Volksraad passes a resolution deploring the decision of the Orange Free State Volksraad to reject proposals for a
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Three British mercenaries, Andrew McKenzie, John Barker and Costas Georgiou and an American, Daniel Gearhert, are sentenced to
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In more than seventy townships, a further series of disturbances (20 July – 19 August) occur, leading to considerable destruc
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Anglo-Boer War 2. Lord Kitchener writes in a letter concerning the Ladies’ Commission sent out to investigate into conditions
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