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The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash in Rwanda, setting off the slaughter of 500 000 Rwandans, most
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The ANC dismisses proposals to postpone elections in the Empangeni region of KwaZulu-Natal.
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Mk hero Solomon Mahlangu, executed 6 April 1979 in Pretoria on two counts of murder and buried in Atteridgeville because police
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European Community foreign ministers agree to scrap the EC oil embargo on South Africa and formally lift sanctions on sporting
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The Human Rights Commission (HCR) of South Africa says that the level of violence in the country has reached unprecedented leve
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The African National Congress is to triple the size of its national executive committee to 105 members to broaden decision-maki
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The freeing of political prisoners in SA reaches its climax on Solomon Mahlangu Day.
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P.W. Botha announces that he will resign after the forthcoming election in South Africa.
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The elite republican guard mounts an unsuccessful coup against President Paul Biya of Cameroon.
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Zola Budd (17), South African athlete, receives British citizenship only thirteen days after application, to enable her to comp
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MK hero Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed in Pretoria on two counts of murder. His comrade Monty Motloung, who had d
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Following King Hussein’s announcement of plans for a federation with Palestine, Egypt breaks ties with Jordan.
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In the Natal Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg, at the end of the longest trial of its kind in South Africa, thirteen defendant
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith lifts Press censorship imposed the previous November.
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The Chairman of the opposition Democratic Party in the Transkei, K.M. Gunzana, is elected leader to succeed Paramount Chief Vic
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The International Court of Justice at The Hague hears the arguments of Ethiopia and Liberia in the South West Africa cases pres
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The pass system is revived.
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Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They a
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Clarabelle van Niekerk, SA singer, is born.
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Thousands of Africans, Indians and Coloured people demonstrate in major towns and take the pledge. Dr. Dadoo says this is the b
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Dr Robert Broom (84), archaeologist and discoverer of ‘Mrs Ples’, dies in Pretoria.
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Central Legislature of British East Africa holds first session in Nairobi.
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World War 2: The British and US armies link up in Africa.
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World War 2: The SA Brigade enters Addis Ababa during World War II.
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The house of Paul Kruger in Church Street West is declared a national monument. At the death of mrs Kruger it was used as polic
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A.J. Werth, former editor of Die Volksblad, Bloemfontein, is appointed Administrator of South West Africa (Namibia).
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Following the death of Lord Carnarvon in Egypt, owners of Egyptian antiquities swamp the British Museum in the hope that they w
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Caspar (Casper?) Kruger, the son of Paul Kruger (ex-president of the Transvaal), takes the oath of allegiance to Britain.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Methuen buries Combat-General De Villebois-Mareuil with full military honours. 1500 men of the L
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