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The British government officially abolishes slavery in the Cape Colony, but the slaves are apprenticed for four years to their
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Dr John Medley Wood, collector of mainly Natal plant species, is born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England.
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The two-year rule by Sir Rufane Donkin of the Cape Colony is abruptly ended when Lord Charles Somerset returns from home leave.
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News 24 announces that Chiliboy Ralepelle (real first name Mahlatse)will become the first Black player to lead the Springbok ru
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A group of forty German travel agents are robbed at gunpoint of their handbags in their bus at Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township
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De Beers SA, the world’s largest producer of diamonds, agrees to pay $250m to settle four US class-action lawsuits that accused
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Representatives of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa), the National Council of Trade Unions (Nactu), and the Con
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Four years after first raising the possibility of irregularities in South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms acquisition process,
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A lesbian couple’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal to have their marriage legally recognised and registered succeeds. Mar
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Egypt’s foreign minister urges America and other nations to help halt Mideast violence, and says the international community ha
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The SA cricket team wins the first test against the West Indies by four wickets. During the match Shaun Pollock takes his 100th
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Sanlam is listed as a public company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
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Judge John Myburgh, judge president of the Labour Court, resigns.
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The SA rugby team wins the second test against France 22-12 in Bordeaux, France.
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Flames roar through the cruise ship Achille Lauro off Somalia. The ship, which was hijacked by PLO terrorists in 1985, sinks tw
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SA signs investment incentive agreement with the United States.
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The Special Committee against Apartheid held two-day consultations with 56 participants from non-governmental organisations and
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At the end of a two-day preparatory meeting chaired by Judge Ismail Mohammed and Judge Petrus Schabort, nineteen political and
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Cape Times reports that the Cape Town City Council has voted to reject the Group Areas Act of 1966 and to request that the enti
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South African, Angolan and Cuban representatives meet in Brazzaville for peace talks.
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The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park announce a consumer boycott of Boksburg. The boycott by Coloured and Black resid
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The search for survivors from the Helderberg SAA 747 crash into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius is called off. No survivors have
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A leader of the South West African People’s Union and former prisoner on Robben Island, Mr Immanuel Shifidi, is killed during v
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions is formed with a membership of 500 000.
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334 people were detained during the year.
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It is announced that 261 people were detained during 1978.
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Prime Minister John Vorster achieves an overwhelming victory in the General Election, taking 136 of the 165 parliamentary seats
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The SA rugby team wins the second test against France 10-8 in Paris.
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International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid is approved by the General Assembly [Resol
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