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President De Klerk issues a statement that the National Security Management System (NSMS) is to be disbanded.
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State President P.W. Botha appoints the former Transvaal judge president, Mr Justice Wessel Groenewald Boshoff, as chairman of
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Civilian convoy is attacked by RENAMO in Mozambique, killing sixty people.
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Twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death in Kenya for their part in the Lari massacre.
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The SA rugby team beats Wales 6-3 in Cardiff.
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Louis Johannes Botha, administrator of the Orange Free State, is born in Reitz, OFS.
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Miss Marjorie Courtney-Latimer and Prof. J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University identify the first coelacanth after it had been thou
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Mathys Michiel (Thys) van Lille, radio broadcaster at the Afrikaans radio station since 1935, is born.
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence). A three-month siege of Pretoria starts.
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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu
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Sir Sydney Smith Bell, chief justice of the Cape, retires because of poor health.
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Christoffel Frederik Johannes Muller, theological professor at the theological seminary, Stellenbosch, is born in Graaff-Reinet
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Andries Hendrik Potgieter establishes the town now known as Potchefstroom, about 10 km from where the centre city now is.
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The Saracens under Amrou conquers Alexandria, having invaded Egypt two years earlier.
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The Sudanese government and rebel group Sudan People’s Liberation Army reach a tentative deal to evenly divide the country’s oi
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Nigeria’s deputy head of state, Lieut. Gen. Oladipo Diya, and eleven others are arrested and accused of plotting to overthrow G
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In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w
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Participants in CODESA decide to set up five working groups, which are to report to a second CODESA plenary session before the
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A Black candidate, Haile Mphushu, qualifies as mine manager for the first time in South Africa, after the repeal of the law se
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Vincent Mahlalela disappears, allegedly escaped from gaol.
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At the conclusion of a forty-four day inquest into the death in detention of the White trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett, the
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Peace agreement signed, ending seven-year Rhodesian guerrilla war and 15-year rebellion against the British crown.
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The lengthy trial of nine Black nationalist student leaders ends. They are found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced t
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Madagascar adopts its constitution.
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Anton de Waal (George Charles Gunn) (67), Afrikaans song-writer, dies.
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The first peace conference with Israel and her Arab neighbours opens in Geneva. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United States, the S
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A three-month campaign to register Coloured voters ends with only approximately half of the total of 700,000 qualified voters r
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Louis Washkansky (53), first heart transplant patient in the world, dies in Cape Town, eighteen days after receiving the heart
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa.
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