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Application in Transkei of Certain South African Laws Relating to Transitional Democracy, Decree No 13, giving recognition to t
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The Transitional Executive Council has its first meeting in Cape Town and adopts a resolution of the Multi-party Negotiating Co
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The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in
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Clarence Makwetu is elected as new leader of the Pan-Africanist Congress.
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Up to 1 000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou
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The government moves ANC leader Nelson Mandela from the private clinic in Cape Town, where he has been recovering from tubercul
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The US state department says it hopes South Africa’s withdrawal from Angola will be followed by the withdrawal of all foreign f
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A parcel bomb injures an ANC member in Lusaka, Zambia.
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Bishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with President Ronald Reagan.
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An explosion at the offices of the Department of Co-operation and Development in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, causes damage to t
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The Erasmus Commission’s report, stating that large-scale irregularities have taken place within the Department of Information,
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State President Vorster opens the first emergency session of Parliament to be held in peacetime and promises action against any
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International Monetary Fund announces the termination of South Africa’s request of the 1969 arrangements for the sale of South
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Further banning orders are gazetted, including that of the former leader of the South African Indian Congress, Yusuf Cachalia w
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Libya announces the nationalisation of British Petroleum’s assets.
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Ian Meckiff is no balled for throwing against the South Africans.
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Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban. http://www.sahistory.org.za/
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The British attack larger Italian forces in Libya by surprise, capturing 40 000 prisoners in three days.
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Don Bradman scores 219 for New South Wales vs South Africa, in 234 minutes. It includes 15 fours.
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Sir Otto John Beit (65), financier, philanthropist and younger brother of Alfred Beit, dies on his birthday in London.
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About 25 000 people in Johannesburg are unemployed and the government announces that it has no jobs available.
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Ludwig Borchardt discovers a painted bust of Nefertiti at el-Amarna, Egypt.
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A proclamation giving self-government to the Union of South Africa is read from the steps of the Royal Exchange in London.
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T.O. Honiball, cartoonist of Die Burger, is born.
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England and Italy agree on settling Sudan frontier.
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English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse sets sail for South Africa, where she will investigate conditions in concentr
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At the Battle at Amba Alagi, Abissynia, the Ethiopians beat Italian armies.
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Sir Milton Margay, the first prime minister of Sierra Leone, is born.
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In German South West Africa Captain Kurt von François moves his administrative headquarters to Windhoek, seven months after er
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