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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela says he and President FW de Klerk are bound by the Nobel Peace Prize they accep
EventFormer Presidents de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Then President F.W. de Klerk, the last president of the white minority rule who abandoned the unsustainable and untenable apartheid system towards a non-racial…
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Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first
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The Concerned South African Group (COSAG) issues a statement that multi-party talks should be resumed.
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The Citizen reports that prominent members of the Soweto community, including the Rev. Frank Chikane, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, Mrs A
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The General Assembly adopts and opens for signature the International Convention against Apartheid in Sports.
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Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo sign a co-operation agreement.
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Three leaders of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front (UDF) and two officials of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Bishop Desmond Tutu in Oslo. The ceremony is delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat.
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American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic, which has been discovered in homosexual men, i
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The Committee of Artists of the World against Apartheid is established in Paris with the support of the Special Committee again
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Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the
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A new Coloured political movement, the Congress of the People (COPE) is launched in Cape Town’s Bellville district.
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The parliament of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia meets for the last time to vote itself out of existence.
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The Minister of Community Development relaxes the Group Areas Act permit system and announces that Blacks will in future be adm
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An earthquake in Welkom, OFS, devastates the flat block Tempesthof.
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Justice H.F. de Wet sentences Maria Groesbeek to death on the charge of poisoning her husband, Chistiaan Buys (43).
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It is announced that the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council has accepted a five-year plan designed to give South Africa
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Zanzibar, a British protectorate since 1890 and now part of Tanzania, becomes an independent state within the Commonwealth.
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South Africa signs multilateral treaty on consent to marriage, minimum age for marriage and registration of marriages.
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Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, the first Black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, collects his prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.
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More than twenty-five people die in action by the SAP and SADF when residents of the Old Location, Windhoek, resist forced remo
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,
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Thamsanqwa (Thami) ka Mnyele, SA artist who went into exile in Botswana in 1979 and became an active member of Umkhonto we Sizw
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Ntopile Kganyago, Deputy Minister of Public Works of the Republic of South Africa since 10 May 2004, is born.
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Allina Ndebele (born Khumalo), SA artist and master weaver who returned to her father’s village and established a small worksho
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Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College (later Grey University College and still later the University of the Free State) dies in
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Sytze Wopkes Wierda (72), architect of several bridges and designer of the Paardekraal monument at Krugersdorp, is born in Sea
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