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In reaction to newspaper reports, Prime Minister P.W. Botha states through the media, that he will not be ‘blackmailed into a d
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Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
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It is announced at a Convention (2-3 March) that the United Democratic Front is to end its activities and will formally disband
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The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,
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South Africa’s envoy to the United Nations, Les Manley, storms out of a Security Council meeting after accusing the council of
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo becomes the first South African group to win a Grammy award. The group wins the best traditional folk a
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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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Twenty-five people are injured when 50 000 people attempt to squeeze into a 25 000-capacity soccer stadium in Antanan
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According to a report on violence published by the Black Sash Repression Monitoring Group, an estimated 11,000 persons have bee
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Mayibuye Uprising-black South Africans, slaves in the land of their birth, rose up to peacefully throw off their shackles
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Document 80 “The Communist Party Points the Way to Freedom: ANC Leaders have no Programme of Struggle”,Umsebenzi,7 April 1934
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APDUSA Views Issue No 71: A Day of Shame to be Remembered Concerning the funeral of Chief Kaiser Matanzima, September 2003
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Response of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the State of the Nation Debate: National Assembly, 9 February 2006
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The Prime Minister makes a major policy speech in the Senate, promising that South Africa will contribute its share to order, d
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Chief Mhlontlo (Mhlonthlo) lures Hamilton Hope (resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape) and his staff to Sulenkama wh
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Forty-nine Commonwealth nations agree to enact further sanctions against SA if further reforms are not taken within six months.
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Dr Neville Edward Alexander, co-founder with Kenneth Alexander of the National Liberation Front, which aim was to bring togethe
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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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Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in P
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A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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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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Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus are sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to de
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Five miners die in a hoisting accident on Rustenburg Platinum Mines, bringing to fifteen the death toll in mining accidents dur
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More than 150 000 people take part in seventeen marches countrywide organised by COSATU to protest against the Labour Relations
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African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela states that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held pol
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The Secretary-General of the Supreme African Sports Council, J.-G. Ganga, says he will admit White South Africans to the Africa
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