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M.W. Pretorius takes the oath of office as president of the whole of the Transvaal.
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Alwyn Petrus Burger, founder of the charity service of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal, is born in Montagu, Cape Provinc
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Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban issues a proclamation extending the boundary of the Cape Colony eastwards from the Keiskamma to t
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William Henry Addison, physician and researcher in Natal, is born in Kent, England.
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Zacharias Wagenaer, commander of the Cape who succeeded Jan van Riebeeck, is born in Dresden, Germany.
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Lindiwe Chibi (31), dies from pneumonia at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. The actress, who played the character of Doob
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An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.
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Brenda Fassi, SA diva, dies in her sleep. She was admitted to the Sunninghill Hospital after an asthma attack two weeks previou
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Prof. Elize Botha is appointed as new chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch.
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Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o
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Eleven people die in Sundumbili, Natal Midlands, in an alleged attack by IFP members, in collusion with Kwa-Zulu police and for
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Nelson Mandela is elected unopposed as first Black President of South Africa in the first session of the National Assembly.
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A broad consensus is reached between the government and the ANC to end Black violence in townships, a day before the ANC’s 9th
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Nelson Mandela begins a six-nation African tour.
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According to the headmaster of Pretoria Boys High School, 70% of the teachers and parents are in favour of opening the school t
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Zola Budd, noted SA athlete who emigrated to Britain in 1984 to take part in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, announces that she
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Regional Services Councils are introduced giving Blacks increasing say in second-tier government. It is decided that Blacks in
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A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir
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President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia is awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr Non-Violent Peace Prize.
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A Second Defence Amendment Bill passes its final stages in the House of Assembly, with the support of the entire opposition. Th
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Ollie le Roux, SA rugby player, is born.
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Abram (Bram) Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy with the ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe to commit
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Opening the first Legislative session of the Transkei-Legislative Assembly, President Swart says that the Transkei now has an a
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Two delegates of the UN, Dr Victorio Carpio and Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, visit South West Africa (now Namibia) after talk
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Commonwealth leaders meet to discuss South Africa’s Apartheid policies.
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Tina Eboka, Director, Division of Textile Technology, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), is born in Durba
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British Togoland (a UN trust, once part of the German colony of Togo) votes for annexation by Ghana.
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Arab League foreign ministers back Egypt’s demand that Britain leave the Suez Canal Zone.
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, dies in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organise
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