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The ANC announces it will suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets its demands for an end to violence.
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Opening the first Legislative session of the Transkei-Legislative Assembly, President Swart says that the Transkei now has an a
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World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following d
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Holkrantz massacre takes place. Qulusi-Zulu chief Sokhobobo takes an impi to recover cattle allegedly r
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Magdalena Gertruide (Magda) Sauer, first woman in SA to practise as a qualified architect, is born in Kenilworth, Cape Town.
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Dr Eschel Rhoodie, SA secretary of Information, in a sensational statement reveals that payments made by him from a secret fund
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P.W. Botha, the Minister of Defence, announces that an air-to-air projectile has been perfected by South Africa.
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In an attempt to defuse the escalating tension in Morocco, France allows Germany to use the port of Casablanca.
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The SA rugby team beats Scotland in Port Elizabeth 18-10 in the only test match of the series.
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The SA rugby team beats Scotland in Port Elizabeth 18-10 in the only test match of the series.
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Alinah Smith (52), mother of an ANC Youth League Official, is killed when a hand grenade explodes in her house.
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Marimuthu Pragalathan Naiker, journalist and politician born in Durban in 1920, dies in an aeroplane during a flight between Lo
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Internal Security Act No 32, empowering Government to declare an organisation unlawful and to control the distribution of publi
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James Henry (Biddy) Anderson, SA cricket player in one test match against Australia (1902-1903), is born in Kimberley.
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Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and
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Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and
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Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i
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Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A dynamite factory, which forms part of the Begbie Engineering Workshop, Johannesburg, is destroyed in an exp
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The government, the ANC and the Freedom Front sign an agreement establishing a framework for a separate state for Whites (’Acco
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Garth Erasmus, SA artist, is born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. He attended a teachers training program at Hewat Training College
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Myrna Blumberg, correspondent for the New York Post and the London Daily Herald in SA, is detained and restricted.
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An evacuation of foreigners from Liberia is undertaken with US helicopters after thousands flock to the US diplomatic compound
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After a UN Security Council vote to continue sanctions against Libya, Britain is accused of "a hidden hatred and an histor
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Aldo Mogano, executive member of Alexandra Youth Congress, is shot dead outside his home in an alleged political murder.
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An international mediation team, including Dr Paul Kevenhorster of Germany, former US Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger and
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Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon dies of an unknown disease some months after he and British archaeologist Howard Carter have discov
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Henry Allen Fagan, chief justice of the Union of SA, cabinet minister and playwright, is born in Tulbach, CC.
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The United States posthumously awards SA Cheetah Squadron pilot, Lieutenant R.M. du Plooy, with the Silver Star for "galla
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