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Representatives from twenty-six South African political parties and organisations resume multiparty negotiations marking the st
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SA signs bilateral monetary agreement with Namibia.
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Eleven people die in riots in Alexandra, Johannesburg.
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The public company Transnet Limited, consisting of five transport businesses namely Spoornet, Portnet, Freightdynamics, Petrone
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The public company Transnet Limited, consisting of five transport businesses namely Spoornet, Portnet, Freightdynamics, Petrone
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KwaNdebele: Traditional Authorities Amendment Act No 7 commences.
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Margaret Thatcher opens a British Liaison Office in Namibia. It is hoped that this will become the British embassy once indepen
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South Africa reports major clashes with guerrillas in Namibia on eve of cease-fire.
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Date of the implementation of United Nations Resolution 435 for Namibian independence, according to a four-point protocol signe
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As part of the consolidation process of homelands, Ndume (Ndumo?) Game Reserve is given to KwaZulu. This means that KwaZulu now
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A silent procession of nearly 1000 people, led by religious leaders, file through the streets of Durban to express their opposi
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The government imposes a one-year ban on all outdoor meetings except sports meetings and funeral gatherings in cemeteries.
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The National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and the South African National Students’ Congress (Sansco) launch a campai
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Joel Phoshoko (28), member of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (CCAWUSA), dies in police custody in Pretoria.
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Prisons Act No 3 commences, providing for prisons and prison protocol.
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SA recalls its ambassador to Britain for urgent consultations, after four South Africans and a Briton are charged in Coventry w
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Black Communities Development Act No 4 commences, introducing freehold ownership. This Act provides for purposeful developme
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Nelson Mandela and three other ANC leaders are moved from Robben Island to Pollsmoor prison.
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A summit meeting of nine southern African countries in Lusaka decide to form the Southern African Development Coordination Conf
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The South African Coloured Persons’ Council Bill comes into force.
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An unsuccessful military coup is staged in Chad.
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Pik Botha, SA ambassador in the USA, returns to South Africa and is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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The harbour at Richards Bay is inaugurated.
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The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop
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Metrication takes effect in the SA Railways and Harbours administration.
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Voortrekkerpers Bpk and Afrikaanse Pers merge to form Perskor (Perskorporasie van Suid-Afrika).
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JARIC, voted best support unit of the SA Air Force 2003, is established as a section of the Central Phototechnical Establishmen
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An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the
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John Harris, who was found guilty of planting a bomb in the Johannesburg station, is executed.
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