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SA recalls its ambassador to Britain for urgent consultations, after four South Africans and a Briton are charged in Coventry w

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Pik Botha, SA ambassador in the USA, returns to South Africa and is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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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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The ANC announces it will suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets its demands for an end to violence.

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Sir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a pr

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An underground gas explosion kills fifty-three miners in the Middelbult coal mine at Secunda, 100 km from Johannesburg.

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Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha and Defence Minister Magnus Malan hold talks in Brazzaville, Congo, with an Angolan delegati

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WWI: General Louis Botha, leading the South African troops, enters undefended Windhoek, capital of German South West Africa, an

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An International Labour Organisation report says South Africans are becoming poorer each year because of the cost of maintainin

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Dr. C.P. Mulder, speaking for the National Conservative Party (NCP) discloses that his party has reached an understanding with

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World TB Day, instituted to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.

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Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, accused of political

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A British missionary, Canon Farmer, accuses Gen. Smuts of having committed an atrocity against members of his flock at Modderfo

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Lt.-Col. Hermanus Christiaan (Manie) Bredell, chief adjunct commissioner of the SA Police, dies on his farm Zonneheuwel, near M

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Johan Papenfus, a SA Defence Force rifleman captured in Angola nearly a year previously, returns to South Africa from Cuba. His

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During an emergency debate in Transkei’s Parliament in Umtata, Chief Matanzima threatens to cut diplomatic links with South Afr

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Eugene Marais, SA poet, naturalist, lawyer and journalist, shoots himself on the farm of Gustav Preller, near Pelindaba. Joyc

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Raymond Hoffenberg leaves South Africa on an exit permit, without possibility of return, to take up a research and consultant’s

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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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Arthur Wellesley Briscoe (30), SA cricket player in three test matches, is killed in Ethiopia during World War II.

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In Kisangani, Zaire, rebel leaders bloc a massive U.N. airlift of Rwandan refugees, insisting that impassable roads be fixed an

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The International Press Institute (IPI) appoints an official observer in South Africa, Joel Mervis, to report on matters affect

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Prime Minister P.W. Botha says in an interview published today that he had ‘’certain reservations’’ about the Reagan Administra

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John Cane, who accompanied Piet Retief on his first visit to Dingane, is killed on an expedition against Dingane

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World Haemophilia Day. This day is celebrated by haemophilia organisations around the world, and gives them an opportunity to i

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Bruce Grobbelaar, a former SA coach, Hans Segers, and John Fashanu are exonerated on charges of manipulating soccer results, be

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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): A provisional armistice between the Generals Wood and Joubert is agreed on an

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SA recalls its ambassador to Britain for urgent consultations, after four South Africans and a Briton are charged in Coventry w

Pik Botha, SA ambassador in the USA, returns to South Africa and is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The government, the ANC and the Freedom Front sign an agreement establishing a framework for a separate state for Whites (’Acco

The ANC announces it will suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets its demands for an end to violence.

Sir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a pr

An underground gas explosion kills fifty-three miners in the Middelbult coal mine at Secunda, 100 km from Johannesburg.

Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha and Defence Minister Magnus Malan hold talks in Brazzaville, Congo, with an Angolan delegati

WWI: General Louis Botha, leading the South African troops, enters undefended Windhoek, capital of German South West Africa, an

An International Labour Organisation report says South Africans are becoming poorer each year because of the cost of maintainin

Dr. C.P. Mulder, speaking for the National Conservative Party (NCP) discloses that his party has reached an understanding with

World TB Day, instituted to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.

Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, accused of political

A British missionary, Canon Farmer, accuses Gen. Smuts of having committed an atrocity against members of his flock at Modderfo

Lt.-Col. Hermanus Christiaan (Manie) Bredell, chief adjunct commissioner of the SA Police, dies on his farm Zonneheuwel, near M

Johan Papenfus, a SA Defence Force rifleman captured in Angola nearly a year previously, returns to South Africa from Cuba. His

During an emergency debate in Transkei’s Parliament in Umtata, Chief Matanzima threatens to cut diplomatic links with South Afr

Eugene Marais, SA poet, naturalist, lawyer and journalist, shoots himself on the farm of Gustav Preller, near Pelindaba. Joyc

Raymond Hoffenberg leaves South Africa on an exit permit, without possibility of return, to take up a research and consultant’s

The SA rugby team beats Scotland in Port Elizabeth 18-10 in the only test match of the series.

The SA rugby team beats Scotland in Port Elizabeth 18-10 in the only test match of the series.

Alinah Smith (52), mother of an ANC Youth League Official, is killed when a hand grenade explodes in her house.

Marimuthu Pragalathan Naiker, journalist and politician born in Durban in 1920, dies in an aeroplane during a flight between Lo

Arthur Wellesley Briscoe (30), SA cricket player in three test matches, is killed in Ethiopia during World War II.

In Kisangani, Zaire, rebel leaders bloc a massive U.N. airlift of Rwandan refugees, insisting that impassable roads be fixed an

The International Press Institute (IPI) appoints an official observer in South Africa, Joel Mervis, to report on matters affect

Prime Minister P.W. Botha says in an interview published today that he had ‘’certain reservations’’ about the Reagan Administra

John Cane, who accompanied Piet Retief on his first visit to Dingane, is killed on an expedition against Dingane

World Haemophilia Day. This day is celebrated by haemophilia organisations around the world, and gives them an opportunity to i

Bruce Grobbelaar, a former SA coach, Hans Segers, and John Fashanu are exonerated on charges of manipulating soccer results, be

Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): A provisional armistice between the Generals Wood and Joubert is agreed on an