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President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt refuses to resume talks with Israel over the question of Palestinian autonomy.
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Abraham J. Kotzé, missionary in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), dies of pneumonia shortly before his return to SA.
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The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA
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Ninety-one people are arrested in Egypt as part of a purge of opposition to President Anwar el-Sadat
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Qaquawuli Godolozi, Sipho Hashe and Champion Galela, all of them activists, disappear after allegedly being escorted to a waiti
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John Vorster declares that he has personally authorised the Department of Information to use secret funds without Parliamentary
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The Minister for Bantu Administration and Development hands over the symbols of authority to the Kwazulu Legislative Authority.
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Robert Sobukwe, President of the Pan Africanist Congress, is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for incitement of Africans
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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u
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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u
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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u
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Prime Minister B.J. Vorster indicates that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves, once t
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The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces in Parliament that South Africa and Mozambique are to establish joint operational centre
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Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.
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Date of the implementation of United Nations Resolution 435 for Namibian independence, according to a four-point protocol signe
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A summit meeting of nine southern African countries in Lusaka decide to form the Southern African Development Coordination Conf
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Bantu Homelands Constitution Act (National States Constitutional Act) No 21, providing for the granting of increased powers to
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Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100
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Negotiations between Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to end violence in townships, fails.
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From 1 June 1981, holders of Zimbabwean passports will require visas to enter South Africa. The Zimbabwean government reciproca
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Referring to allegations that a vendetta is being conducted against churches and religious workers in SA, Prime Minister Vorste
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A UN program to feed two million Angolans resumes after the government lifts a three-month ban on food deliveries.
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O. R. Tambo leaves South Africa illegally on the instruction of the ANC to carry on work outside the country.
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General Jan Smuts, SA premier, makes a notable speech to members of the British parliament, suggesting that the responsibility
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Andries Pretorius is appointed Commandant-General of the Voortrekkers, to lead a commando two days later against the Zulu.
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SABC reports that to celebrate its 75th anniversary, the Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging (ATKV) (Afrikaans Language and Cul
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Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.
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The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective
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