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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, on his first trip to the US, arrives in Washington for talks with President Ford.
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The Prime Minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, opens a new international radio service, ‘The Voice of South Africa’, intended to counter
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The SA Chamber of Business states that it is committed to the RDP, but concerned about its ‘authoritarian tone’.
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The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr
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The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr
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The SA rugby team wins the second test against South America in Santiago 30-16, to win the series 2-0.
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The SA rugby team wins the second test against South America in Santiago 30-16, to win the series 2-0.
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President Kaunda takes power in Zambia. Zambia is the ninth African state to gain independence from the British crown.
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President Kaunda takes power in Zambia. Zambia is the ninth African state to gain independence from the British crown.
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Document 138 - Letter from the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa to the Revolutionary Communist Party, 29 August 1947
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Party Led By Mandela Now Owns Up To Atrocities by Suzanne Daley (The New York Times), 13 May 1997
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Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, who headed a delegation of fifty-two mainly Afrikaans-speaking South Africans to Dakar, expresses
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A new Black political party, the Black People’s Convention, open only to Black people, is formed after a three-day conference i
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Prince Karim leaves Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to become the Aga Kahn, the religious leader of 20 million
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The International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF), at its meeting in Monte Carlo, rejects a Russian resolution to expel the South
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In a letter to Lord Roberts, Chief Commandant de Wet protests against the indiscriminate destruction of priva
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The Pretoria Rifle Corps is founded under Stephanus Schoeman as a volunteer corps to defend Pretoria and surroundings. The loca
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General Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, comes to power in Rwanda in a bloodless coup, and remains president until his death in a p
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In Congo Republic (now Zaire), the army mutinies (5-6 July) and Europeans flee from Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) area to Brazzav
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Gen. Jan Smuts visits Dublin to negotiate with Eamon de Valera and other Irish leaders on behalf of Britain.
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Constitutional Affairs Amendment Act No 104 commences. It amends the 1968 Prohibition of Political Interference Act to allow no
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Zimbabwe foils a South African commando attempt to rescue five alleged South African agents awaiting trial for bomb attacks aga
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The governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) meets in Geneva (28-30 June), to discuss emergency measures a
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Speech by President Mandela to Toast an Official Banquet in Honour of President Flavio Cotti Cape Town, 3 August 1998
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Speech by President Mandela to Toast an Official Banquet in Honour of President Flavio Cotti Cape Town, 3 August 1998
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Message from President Nelson Mandela to the 75th Jubilee celebrations of the Faculty of Health Sciences August 1997
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Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the occasion to mark the anniversary of Bastille Day Paris, 15 July 1996
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SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE NELSON MANDELA ROAD TO KATSE Lesotho, 13 JULY 1995
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A statement issued simultaneously in Lusaka and Salisbury, gives details of proposals agreed to after two days of talks between
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