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The Constitutional Assembly approves final amendments to the new SA Constitution. The changes are approved by 369 votes to one,
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SA signs financial protocol with the government of France; also signs agreement with the government of France concerning the re
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Up to 85 000 people march against the Labour Relations Amendment Act in Uitenhage and demand an end to apartheid.
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The office of the Windhoek newspaper Namibian is devastated by fire. The ‘Wit Wolwe’ (White Wolves), an ultra-right organis
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Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th
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Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on th
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Business Day reports that an executive director of the Rembrandt Group, Johann Rupert, spoke out against apartheid at the South
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Negotiators at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva reach an agreement that would allow poor countries with seve
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Residents of Peelton receive an undertaking in the Ciskei Supreme Court, Bisho, that no unlawful arrest or harassment by police
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The London Times, a British newspaper based in London, publishes an article paying tribute to King Sekhukhune of the Marota Emp
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James Andrew Gray, SA journalist, newspaper proprietor and editor of the Pretoria News (1924-1932), is born in Scotland. He w
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An agreement is signed for the sale of Anglo America’s almost 48 percent shareholding in Johnnies Industrial Corporation to the
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Faced with an increasingly critical and protest media that support the democratisation of South Africa, the Minister of Home Af
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George Cary Hobson, SA author, is born in Graaff-Reinet district. Together with his brother, S.B. Hobson, they formed a uniqu
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Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signs an agreement in Cairo to expand Palestinian autonomy from Gaza to the We
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An explosion takes place at the Ciskei consulate offices in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, in which one person is injured. I
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Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964.
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Dr Frans Geldenhuys, first editor of ‘Die Landbouweekblad’ and first head of the SA department of agricultural economics and ma
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A force of about fifty armed dissidents infiltrate the Togolese capital of Lome in an attempt to topple President Gnassingbe Ey
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Gerrie Coetzee, SA heavyweight boxing champion, wins the World Boxing Association (WBA) title in the US by knocking out America
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Scorpion investigators raid the upmarket Glenhurst wine farm boxes of documents are removed. The raid is part of an ongoing b
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The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Sub-Committee opens an inquiry into the South African operations of 320 Am
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WWI: A body of Active Citizen Force (A.C.F.) troops of the Union of SA, nearly 1 800 strong, lands at Lüderitsbucht (Angra P
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The Paralympic Games open in Athens, with Amakrokokroko table tennis star Rosabelle Riese carrying the SA flag and leading the
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Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, dies in Kimberl
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The SA government transfers R2bn to the Independent Development Trust to ‘overcome the backlog in the socio-economic developmen
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Arab guerrillas hijack an Egyptair plane shortly after takeoff from Cairo. The plane lands at Luxor where Egyptian commandos su
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An alleged Soviet spy, Y.N. Loginov, who was arrested in 1967, is handed over to a non-communist country, West Germany.
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The SA minister of posts and telegraphs complains that Radio Tanzania’s broadcasts from Dar-es-Salaam are interfering with broa
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