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Anglo-Boer War 2 -General Marthinus Prinsloo, leader of the Republican forces in the Brandwater Basin, sends an emissary to Gen
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The International Convention with Respect to Laws and Customs of War by Land is signed at The Hague, the Netherlands.
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The Security Council urges Member States to adopt a wide range of economic measures against South Africa. The resolution is, ho
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The showrooms of two car companies are wrecked in Durban by bombs, believed to have been planted by ANC guerrillas.
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The ‘Committee of 10’ formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to hav
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The engagement of Marike, first wife of Pres. F.W. de Klerk, to Johan Koekemoer, Johannesburg businessman and accountant, is an
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The South African government admits donating $35 billion in 1989 to support political parties opposing the South-West Africa Pe
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Benedict (Bennie) McCarthy of Bafana Bafana, accepts a contract of R38, 5 million to play for the Spanish club Celta Vigo.
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Dr. Peter Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry int
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South Africa and the Soviet Union sign a formal agreement in Johannesburg to promote trade between the two countries. The agree
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The government gives its details of proposals to consolidate 157 ‘Black spots’ and sixty-eight Zulu areas into a homeland. Kwaz
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Ciskei’s former Commander of the Armed Forces, Major-General Charles Sebe, brother of President Lennox Sebe, is sentenced to tw
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The Springbok team under Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 26-19 in Bloemfontein, to lead 2-0 in the series.
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Prime Minister Vorster and Dr. Hilgard Muller arrive in Geneva. A meeting is held with twelve South African ambassadors to Euro
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The Immigration Act is passed. Though the Act does not specifically refer to Indians, it makes their further immigration imposs
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President Thabo Mbeki salutes the historic deal by the world’s most industrialised nations to write off debt owed by eighteen o
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Last British troops leave Suez Canal base, turning the waterway over to Egypt after operating it for seventy-four years.
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The Star reports that a Group Areas Bill, which sought to increase drastically the penalties for contravention of the Group Are
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Diamonds are first discovered at Kimberley, South Africa, leading to the construction of the world’s largest open mine, the Big
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Zambian postal workers refuse to sort mail from South Africa following a bomb explosion the previous week in which two postal w
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after
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Sisulu is sentenced to R30-00 or 90 days imprisonment because he is not in possession of a reference book.
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The bitter debate over the power of central government in relation to the provinces is reopened when the Constitutional Court r
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Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors
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Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki says the deadline for the new constitution will slip again, which leads to a new unity government
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Name changes to three of South Africa’s nine provinces are announced: PWV becomes Gauteng; Orange Free State becomes the Free S
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The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989 by Jon Soske
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This Day reports the controversial Communal Land Rights Act, transferring about 13 million hectares of state-owned land to indi
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SA signs an agreement with the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros relating to the basic conditions governing the secondmen
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