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An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead with Robert Salmond as captain, carrying reinforcements for the 8th Frontier War, runs

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Keith Sandile Kunene, attorney Supreme Court of SA and chair or vice-chair of numerous companies and commissions, is born.

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Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC &quot;peace

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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation warns that the government is planning to take a tougher line with the rapidly expanding an

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SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid

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The ANC national executive committee endorses the proposal of an interim government of national unity not more than five years

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WW2: Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.

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Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air and fo

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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Quarterfinal versus Algeria 2-1 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesb

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SA signs protocol on cooperation between the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and the Ministry of External Affairs

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Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.

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Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part

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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final versus Tunisia 2-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg.

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An abridged version of the security report by Justice H.J. Potgieter’s Commission of Inquiry on State Security is submitted to

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The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is a party, is signed in Ra

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The Herschel School opens in Claremont, Cape Town. It is named after Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer an

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President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an

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The Swiss government sends an official protest to the South African government over the illegal activities of South African age

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The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So

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ANC secretary-general Alfred Nzo and SA Communist Party general secretary Joe Slovo address a rally near Soweto. Slovo tells th

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In response to Pretoria’s failure to meet the 30 April deadline, 364 political prisoners throughout South Africa start an indef

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The SA government prohibits Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall because Black children sing it as a song of liberty.

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An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill

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Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.

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Maggie Laubser, SA painter and receiver of several awards, is born on the farm Bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbu

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A Zimbabwe court rules that the government and police must bring an end to Black squatters’ occupations of White-owned farms.

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Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami

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Molton Paseka Ncholo, executive chairman of Khumo Bathong Holdings and member of the board of the SA Mining Development Associa

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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei

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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the

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An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead with Robert Salmond as captain, carrying reinforcements for the 8th Frontier War, runs

Keith Sandile Kunene, attorney Supreme Court of SA and chair or vice-chair of numerous companies and commissions, is born.

Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC &amp;quot;peace

The Minister of Manpower Utilisation warns that the government is planning to take a tougher line with the rapidly expanding an

SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid

The ANC national executive committee endorses the proposal of an interim government of national unity not more than five years

WW2: Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.

Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air and fo

The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Quarterfinal versus Algeria 2-1 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesb

SA signs protocol on cooperation between the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and the Ministry of External Affairs

Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.

Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part

The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final versus Tunisia 2-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg.

An abridged version of the security report by Justice H.J. Potgieter’s Commission of Inquiry on State Security is submitted to

The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is a party, is signed in Ra

The Herschel School opens in Claremont, Cape Town. It is named after Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer an

President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an

The Swiss government sends an official protest to the South African government over the illegal activities of South African age

The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So

ANC secretary-general Alfred Nzo and SA Communist Party general secretary Joe Slovo address a rally near Soweto. Slovo tells th

In response to Pretoria’s failure to meet the 30 April deadline, 364 political prisoners throughout South Africa start an indef

The SA government prohibits Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall because Black children sing it as a song of liberty.

An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill

Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.

Maggie Laubser, SA painter and receiver of several awards, is born on the farm Bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbu

A Zimbabwe court rules that the government and police must bring an end to Black squatters’ occupations of White-owned farms.

Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami

Molton Paseka Ncholo, executive chairman of Khumo Bathong Holdings and member of the board of the SA Mining Development Associa

The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei

An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the

Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC "peace