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Remarks by President Thabo Mbeki to designated Heads of Mission during Credentials Ceremony, Presidential Guesthouse, Pretoria, 08 August 2008
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Remarks from President Thabo Mbeki to designated Heads of Mission at Credentials Ceremony, Presidential Guesthouse, Pretoria, 27 June 2008
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Mpumalanga game ranger, Sibusiso Vilane, becomes the first Black South African to conquer Mount Everest, the world’s highest pe
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In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, lawyers for the NP demand an unconditional apology from chairman Desmon
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Student protest erupts into violence outside St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town. Force is used to dispel demonstrators. Kalle
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The Transkei administration withdraws Proclamation no 4 of 1978, declaring the Methodist Church of Southern Africa to be an und
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Dr. Verwoerd says that the government has no intention of trying to incorporate Bechuanaland, Basutoland or Swaziland into Sout
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In response to Israel’s seizure of Gaza, Egypt closes the Suez Canal and breaks diplomatic ties with the west.
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The Chief Executive Councillor of Kwazulu, Chief Buthelezi, condemns plans to consolidate Zululand in terms of the 1936 Trust a
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”Trumpet Call to Youth”, Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League. 10 September 1944
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Justice Petrus Cillié submits to Parliament his report on the violent racial disturbances began in Soweto in June 1976,
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Certificates of citizenship in the ‘homelands’ are to be issued by seven homeland authorities in their respective capitals in t
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Prussian nobility found the Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) to spread Christianity. The Society was active in most African coun
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Voters in Burundi overwhelmingly approve a new power-sharing constitution aimed at bringing to a final end an eleven-year civil
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An Anglican priest, the Reverend David Russell, is sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defying his banning order and attendin
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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To
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The ANC submits its constitutional blueprint to CODESA. It suggests a two-phase transitional period of multiparty rule for fift
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The National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industries (Nafcoc) commits itself to the promotion of a free-market sys
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Edenburg is established in the Orange Free State as a church village. The Volksraad granted application for recognition as a to
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The UN’s Human Rights Commission adopts a resolution backing the armed struggle to eliminate apartheid in South Africa. Only Br
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A former president of the Eastern Cape Agricultural Union, Fred Pettit, is stabbed to death in his house near Queenstown.
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The Harms Commission, instituted to inquire into unlawful acts by the security forces, starts hearing evidence in the Nederduit
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It is announced that the IEC has hired 10,300 observers to monitor the first democratic election in April.
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In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA) concludes that this country was "one of
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The Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa decides to maintain sanctions until promises of reform in South Africa are carrie
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Provincial Council elections show a sharp swing to the government side and shock the opposition UP. Although provincial, the ca
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World TB Day, instituted to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.
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South African mercenaries, hired by the Papua New Guinea government to help crush a separatist rebellion, arrive back in South
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President Vorster, in a lengthy statement, challenges Dr. Rhoodie to release any document which may implicate him in the Inform
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