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SA signs treaty with Greece concerning the graves of members of the armed forces of the Commonwealth in Greek territory.
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The SA Minister of Justice states that legislation will be introduced during the next parliamentary session to indemnify the go
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The new revised results of the 1996 census survey is announced, according to which SA has 40 583 574 inhabitants.
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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician, Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, is bor
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Soweto flares into violence again. An estimated £75,000 damage is caused. Incidents are also reported from Cape Town, Pretoria
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SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of
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The Conservative Party threatens to stage a tax revolt and television license boycott in an attempt to force the government to
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The Delmas Treason Trial, up to that time the longest in SA history, starts. All the accused plead not guilty.
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Foreign Minister Eric Louw tells the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference that South Africa is not prepared to submit to an
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Statistics SA leads the Interdepartmental Task Team on Mortality to give effect to a Cabinet decision to prioritise work on the
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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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