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Dr Diederichs receives the unanimous vote of the Electoral College, consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament, to beco
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The first general elections to the Ciskei’s Legislative Assembly are held in the territory’s nine districts. There are no polit
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Free Burghers in the Cape receive their first agricultural plots. First legislation with regard to water rights come into actio
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Pres. F.W. de Klerk announces a referendum for 17 March to establish the opinion of White voters towards his political reform
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Kurds occupy and take hostages at the Greek embassies in several European countries to protest Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ca
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Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T
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Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.
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Pres. P.W. Botha issues a certificate to prevent the Windhoek Supreme Court from trying six SA Defence Force personnel for the
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The SA government announces that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be requested to help in repatri
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Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn
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Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav
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A special interim report by Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, commissioner at the Paarl riot inquiry, urges swift government action to br
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The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and
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Janet Soga (neé Burnside) is born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland. She married Tito Yoga, the first Black man to be
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The former United States of America (US) Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Cameron Hume, hands over specialised anti-terrorism equ
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In elections to the 100-member Lebowa National Assembly, Dr. Phatudi’s ruling Lebowa People’s Party wins more than three-quarte
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The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p
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The artillery bombards the strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square during the Rand Revolt and it falls to the government. Befo
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News 24 reports that South Africa’s ambitious HIV/Aids treatment plan is lagging as the government struggles to plug a shortage
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Business Dayreports that Justice T. Spoelstra has sentenced four strikers to death four times each on charges of murder of non-
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Gen. David Johannes (Ou Kat) Joubert, South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w
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De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.
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Seven street children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri
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South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.
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All South African policemen in Rhodesia are being confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit
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Proclamation R29 is gazetted, enabling Africans in towns on trust land to obtain full property rights, affecting and estimated
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A rusty 1.4kg shell, dating back to 1901, explodes in the playground of a Johannesburg school, injuring more than thirty childr
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Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra
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