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The ANC sent a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end violent police action.
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WW1: The South African brigade is called to capture Delville Wood in France in a fierce two-day battle.
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General Constand Viljoen reassures RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama that the agreement between South Africa and Mozambique to sett
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The Volksraad of the Voortrekker Republic of Natal capitulates to Britain. Britain annexed the territory formally in 1843.
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Defence Minister J. Modise issues a statement that South Africa is to end the special relationship with Israel. Modise compares
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Defence Minister J. Modise issues a statement that South Africa is to end the special relationship with Israel. Modise compares
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The Johannesburg chief magistrate refuses permission for a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday. Twenty-five tho
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Letter from Paul R. Mosaka, Newly-elected Member of the Natives’ Representative Council, to Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 11, 1942
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The Green Book - Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the ANC National Executive Committee, August 1979
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Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
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Letter by Mr. A.M. Kathrada to the youth of South Africa after being banned by the government, 19541
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President Mbeki’s Comments on Zimbabwe: MDC Decision to pull out of Presidential run-off Election – 22 June 2008
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Remarks from President Mbeki to designated Heads of Mission at Credentials Ceremony, Presidential Guesthouse, Pretoria, 25 January 2008
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Notes following Briefing to media by President Thabo Mbeki Media Centre, Union Buildings, Pretoria Saturday 12 January 2008
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Presidential Address to the 42nd Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Queenstown, 18-20 December 1953
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South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission grants amnesty to apartheid death squad commander Eugene de Kock and other f
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The four former ministers sentenced to death for treason, murder, and an attempted coup by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s
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A bill to curtail land ownership and voting rights of Asians in South Africa is adopted by the government.
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Egypt announces it will not extend Suez Canal Company’s concession after expiration in 1956, leading to Suez Crisis.
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SA signs treaty with Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe relative to the establishment of the Limpopo Basin Permanent Technical C
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha persuades a combined gathering of the Provincial and Parliamentary caucuses of the National Party to
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Pasteur Bizimungu, Rwanda’s post-genocide president, is sentenced to fifteen years in jail for embezzlement and inciting violen
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Hundreds of foreigners, including three SA businessmen, flee from Eritrea after a frontier dispute with Ethiopia leads to bombi
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Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) march to Pretoria and call for a Volkstaat for the Afrikaner people.
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The Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the prime minister to investigate the activities of four organisations, amon
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The Minister of Interior, Mr S.L. Muller, grants a visa to Japanese jockey Sueo Masuzawa after first refusing it.
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A newspaper reports that the government has refused a visa application from the American Negro tennis player, Arthur Ashe, to v
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Pres. Jimmy Carter of America refuses further aid to Argentina, Uruguay and Ethiopia because of human rights violations.
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The first gold (61 ounces) is sent from Kromdraai in the Witwatersrand to the Standard Bank in Pretoria.
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