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Representatives of the diamond industry and more than thirty governments agree to certify all legitimate shipments of rough dia
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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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2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances.
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The ANC holds its forty-ninth National Conference in Bloemfontein. Its strategy and tactics document “From Resistance to Recons
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The General Assembly appeals for assistance to families of persons persecuted by the South African Government for their opposit
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Clarence Mlokoti, a founder member of Kaizer Chiefs, is shot dead by hijackers when they try to take his car.
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): After a period of passive resistance and repeated attempts by leaders to have
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South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland sign a new customs agreement in Pretoria, to come into operation on 1 March 1970.
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J.F. Wenzel presents his credentials to President Banda as South Africa’s first Chargé d’Affaires and head of legation i
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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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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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Address to the Second NEDLAC Summit presented by John Gomomo, COSATU President, on behalf of COSATU, NACTU and FEDUSA
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Four leading South African journalists are charged under the new Protection of Information Act. The charges relate to reports c
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The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, to which SA is a party, is signed in London.
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More British troops are sent to the Suez Canal Zone (the biggest troop airlift since the Second World War).
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In the preamble to the Bambatha rebellion, Umgeni divisional magistrate, Mr T.R. Bennett, is threatened by twenty-seven armed B
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Ten French aid workers, kidnapped thirteen days earlier from a Somali refugee camp, are handed over to Ethiopian authorities by
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The Prime Minister explains that administrative rationalisation is to be implemented in four states, and announces that the Dep
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Adv. Mojankunyane Gumbi, Legal Advisor to the President’s Office (1999) and director of the Women’s Development Bank, is born i
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Several thousand teachers march to the regional offices of the Department of Education and Training (DET) in Johannesburg, in o
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller starts his fourth attempt to relieve Ladysmith, Natal. The British withdraw from their positions
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President Mandela discloses that he has invited Cuban President Fidel Castro to South Africa. This move elicits expressions of
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The Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, discloses in Parliament that during 1973 the government for political reasons banned a to
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A Swiss police officer is convicted of passing lists of suspected Islamic militants to Algerian authorities. At least four peop
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Transkei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa because South Africa is now willing to negotiat
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Student committees decide to end the boycott of Black schools, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) having declared i
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At a meeting between John Vorster and eight ‘homelands’ leaders, strong representations are made to the Prime Minister on the d
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Dr Verwoerd announces the introduction of legislation for a referendum of White voters to decide whether South Africa would bec
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Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d
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