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Former SA President Nelson Mandela begins his first visit to Israel, a gesture of final reconciliation with a nation that had b
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Premier Ahmadou Ahidjo discloses that France had agreed to grant the Cameroons internal autonomy and, if supported by a referen
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Anglo-Boer War: In a proclamation sent to Basutoland, President Steyn explains the defensive presence of commandos on the Bas
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Prime Minister Louis Botha invites President M.T. Steyn to a meeting aimed at establishing a new political party in the Union o
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The Goldstone Commission reports the finding of a secret operational centre run by Military Intelligence and seizes plans to de
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The Southern African Black Alliance (SABA) and the PFP declare their total opposition to the pending constitutional changes inv
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T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) arrives in Cairo with a British fact-finding mission whose purpose is to recommend ways of
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MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is cleared in Zimbabwe by the High Court of charges of plotting to kill Mugabe.
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C.K. Thambi Naidoo, representing Gandhi at a public meeting in Newcastle, mobilises the Indians living there to start the Satya
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The corruption case against former deputy president Jacob Zuma is postponed to November 12 in Durban magistrate’s court. Af
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Rebels use a missile to shoot down a jetliner carrying forty civilians in eastern Congo, claiming it was ferrying government tr
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Nelson Mandela returns to South Africa’s notorious Robben Island and said "the emotions ran wild" when he met prisone
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Defence Minister Botha announces that a missile base for experimental tests and launchings is to be established on the Zululand
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A petition drafted by four prominent Free Burgers under Tielman Roos is submitted to the Lords XVII, concerning grievances prio
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The Mozambique Government, its right-wing guerrilla opponents and South African officials meet in Pretoria to thrash out detail
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Equal education for all races, including a provision that will allow White government schools to admit Blacks, is proposed in t
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The United Nations Security Council meets in emergency session to hear a complaint by Zambia against numerous violations by Sou
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Parliament meets in special session to elect the National Party candidate, Alwyn Schlebusch, as the nation’s first Vice-Preside
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The Minister of State of the Ivory Coast, Koffia Ndia, visits South Africa, reaffirming the country’s commitment to dialogue.
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ANC leaders meet homeland leaders in Soweto. All except KwaZulu’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi agree to act together in deciding princi
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Cornelis F. Bezuidenhout, frontier farmer, is summoned to appear in court in Graaff-Reinet on charges laid by a certain Booi. H
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Identification Amendment Act No 47, amending the 1986 Identification Act so as to repeal certain obsolete provisions, and order
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The results of four Parliamentary by-elections show a decided swing to the Herstigte Nasionale Party and low percentage polls.
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The results of four Parliamentary by-elections show a decided swing to the Herstigte Nasionale Party and low percentage polls.
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A national congress, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church starts in Bloemfontein, to discuss the serious poor White prob
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Meeting in a special session, the National Executive Committee of the ANC ratifies the Record of Understanding. It resolves to
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The United Nations General Assembly asks the Security Council to review the relationship between the United Nations and South A
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National Party leaders under presidency of W.A. Hofmeyr, decide on a meeting in Stellenbosch to start a daily newspaper in Tran
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South Africa calls for an urgent solution to the row over Iran’s nuclear programme following a meeting in Johannesburg between
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