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The government decides to disband the Foreign Affairs Association, a front organisation founded by the former Department of Inf
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It is announced that all Cabinet Ministers on the boards of newspaper groups are to resign their directorships.
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Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS.
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The first elections to the forty-five seats for elected members of the Transkei Legislative Assembly take place.
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SA signs Protocol IV to the treaty on the Lesotho Highlands Water Project including supplementary arrangements regarding Phase
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The Burundian president and the CNDD/FDD rebel leader mark formal end to the ten-year civil war.
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European Union ambassadors approve a total arms embargo to punish Nigeria’s military regime for the execution of nine political
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The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) White Paper, put before parliament, calls for an expeditious programme to en
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Britain announces intention to intervene in the Congo Free State if Belgian and German atrocities against natives continues.
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Egypt brokers an understanding to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence and move toward a peace accord, announced just hours after
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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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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and African nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo sign an agreement to start full constitutional n
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The International Convention on Civil liability for Oil Pollution Damage, as well as the International Convention Relating to I
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President Swart appoints a one-man commission, Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, to inquire into the riots in Paarl, CP.
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Dr Verwoerd intimates that the government proposes to introduces legislation providing for the extension of the territorial sea
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Security Clearance Act No 40, requiring security clearance of people as a prerequisite to their employment in certain education
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The United Nations General Assembly passes a draft Resolution, by eighty-seven votes to one (Portugal) and twelve abstentions,
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The South African authorities publish a notice granting indemnity from prosecution to all exiles that left the country illegall
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The South African Institute of Race Relations reports that 433 people are known to be still in custody.
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The General Assembly strongly disapproves SA policy of Apartheid and requests the Secretary-General to establish a United Natio
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The Minister of Agricultural Technical Services, J.J. Fouche, claims that South Africa is strong enough to withstand sanctions
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Oliver Tambo, President of the ANC, returns to South Africa after having fled the country thirty years ago.
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P.J Meintjes writes to President Kruger pointing out that the property of the ‘Randjeslaagte Syndicate’ contains payable gold d
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President Mandela signs the new Constitution, guaranteeing equal rights to all races. It incorporates the broad principles of t
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The government appoints a judicial Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice C.F. Eloff, to investigate the ince
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Judge Anton Mostert, investigating exchange contraventions on instruction of the minister of finance, hands over evidence to th
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Ex-President F.W. De Klerk announces that his marriage of 39 years to Marike is on the rocks.
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President Mandela issues an invitation to Libyan leader Col. M. al Kadhaffi. The National Party considers this could jeopardize
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Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot trying to escape from prison.
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