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Ministers from 109 countries sign a 26,000-page world trade agreement known as the Uruguay Round accords in Morocco.
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Governments across the world apply United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destru
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EC lifts sanctions previously imposed on South Africa (1985) as goodwill gesture for promised improvements to a multi-racial so
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The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.
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Odirile Maponya of Umkhonto weSizwe is killed when a bomb, intended for the Sterland complex, Arcadia, Pretoria, explodes in hi
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US attempts an air strike at Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi’s home in Libya in the biggest US air strike since the Vietnam War. Libya
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South Africa’s Foreign Minister announces that South African troop withdrawal from Angola is to be completed within a week.
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Five people found guilty of Anwar Sadat’s assassination are executed.
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The fifteen-year rule of President Hamani Diori in Niger comes to end when he is deposed in a coup.
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Matthews “Loop en Val” Motshwareteu, the Black athlete who broke the national 5 000 m record in Stellenbosch, has, after only f
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SA formally implements the Montreal Protocol for the control of ozone-duplicating substances.
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Werner Swanepoel, rugby player of Free State, is born.
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Ugandan Prime Minister Milton Obote is declared president under a new constitution.
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André Joubert, Springbok rugby player, is born.
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O.H.M. Chabane, MRC for Public Works, Northern Province Provincial Government and founder member of AZASO, is born. He was arre
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Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15 commences. It contains banning powers over publications dee
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Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the African National Congress in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the Black
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The National Party of Dr D.F. Malan wins 94 of the 156 seats and the opposition 62 in the general election.
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Prof. Adriaan Francken, authority on painting and classic languages, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Italian forces occupy the Abyssinian town of Dessye, having advanced 125 miles in the last five days.
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Richard Owen Dudley, president of the New Unity Movement, 1985, and active campaigner against separate schooling based on colou
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A.G. Howard of the Union Weather Service issues the first weather forecast for the Union as a whole from the branch office in C
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Alexander John (Sandy) Bell, SA cricket player in sixteen test matches (1929-1935), is born in East London.
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The tobacco industry in Hekpoort and Magaliesburg is in full swing again. The crop since the war (Anglo-Boer War 2) has bee
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The Katanga Company is formed in Brussels to exploit copper deposits in the Katanga area of Central Africa.
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Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi
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William Govan Bennie, educationist and author, is born in Lovedale, Cape.
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Dutch is proclaimed “the chief language” in the Orange Free State.
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Prof. W.S. Logemann, professor in Dutch, French, German and history at the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, is born in Haarl
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