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Gerhardus Cornelis Oosthuizen buys the section of the farm Lang Leegte, on which the main gold reef of the Witwatersrand was di
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The town of Boshof is established in the Free State.
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Lord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as governor with a mandate to further develop the colony and to improve conditions fo
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Jan van Riebeeck, on board of the Drommedaris, arrives in Table Bay.
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Prof. Nic Wiehahn, chairman of several commissions, notably the commission that recommended the legalising of Black labour unio
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The South African Government is probing 37 000 public servants who are allegedly receiving various forms of grants fraudulently
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Judge Rudolf Erasmus, member of nine commissions of the SA government, dies in Bloemfontein.
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President Nelson Mandela earns worldwide praise for his role in persuading Libya to hand over two suspects accused of placing a
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Libya hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in 1988.
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Twelve people are killed when their bus leaves the road in Van Rhyn’s Pass near Vanrhynsdorp, Namaqualand.
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Zaire falls further into chaos when parliament and the new prime minister declare each other unconstitutional on the eve of pea
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Heavy fighting in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, leaves seventeen dead.
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IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February. The party gives an ultimatum that it will boycott the Constituent
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An international mediation team, including Dr Paul Kevenhorster of Germany, former US Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger and
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Ten ANC refugees are killed in an attack on a house in Murchison, Natal South Coast.
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The ANC presents an ultimatum which includes demands for the firing of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister
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At an informal meeting in Cape Town, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela agree to reschedule formal talks between the Go
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The Venda government under President Frank Ravele falls in a military coup led by Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana, who im
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The first company to be indicted under the US Anti-Apartheid Act pleads guilty to importing four used jet-aircraft engines from
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Gibson Ncube, ANC, dies in Mozambique from poisoning, in an allegedly political assassination.
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Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell in Mahwelereng, Lebowa, with more tha
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The Hoexter Commission presents its fifth and final report to Parliament, recommending major reforms in the judicial system and
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United Kingdom Government announces for the first time support for a UN General Assembly resolution against apartheid.
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UN anti-Apartheid sanctions against South Africa are opposed by the US.
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The publications Torch and New Age arebanned.
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Johan Kriek, SA tennis player and winner of the US Indoor 1982, is born.
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A commission to monitor human rights abuses in Algeria is set up by France.
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The Van Riebeeck school hostel, built by the Afrikaans community in Kenya, is inaugurated.
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As riots rage around Cairo, the Egyptian army kills twenty-five civilians.
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