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Belgium grounds a planeload of President Mobutu Sese Seko’s newly printed money in a bid to force him to surrender power.
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President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela jointly accept the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Pri
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According to a study by the Human Sciences Research Council, violent attacks by Whites against Blacks have increased sharply in
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A Government Gazette of this date amends and eases security emergency regulations.
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Stones, empty soft-drink cans and sticks are hurled at rebel England cricket captain Mike Gatting by a crowd of anti-tour demon
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The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the
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Fighting between Inkatha and the United Democratic Front supporters spills into central Pietermaritzburg when the Cosatu office
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu becomes the first Black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg.
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Dr Anton Carlisle Hartman (63), South African conductor and musician, dies in Johannesburg.
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Three draft Bills revising and streamlining South Africa’s security laws are placed before Parliament, their object being to re
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The Venda Attorney General announces he has ordered an inquiry into the death of Mr. Muffle to be held in the Sibasa Magistrate
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The six-man Commission of Inquiry into security legislation, under the chairmanship of Justice P.I. Rabie, presents its report
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The President’s Council is formally inaugurated as a policy-advisory, problem-directed, reform-orientated and future-looking bo
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tours Africa as President Carter’s envoy.
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, ‘Pik’ Botha, says in the House of Assembly that the Biko affair has done endless harm to South
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Gen. Tafari Banti (Teferi Benti), Ethiopia’s chief of state, is killed in gun battle that breaks out around Addis Ababa headqua
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Julius Louis Saks, optometrist who received several awards, including the award of Honorary Life Fellowship of the Academy by t
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Heidi Saayman, SA photographer, is born in the Transkei.
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Joseph Tshifura Makhari, engineer, student leader and recipient of various international study grants is born in Thohoyandou, V
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The Leader of the Opposition introduces a no-confidence motion, stating that the government policy of separate development has
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Retief Goosen, South African golf player, is born.
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Dr Eduardo C. Mondlane, president of Mozambique National Liberation Front (Frelimo), is assassinated by a letter bomb in Tanzan
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The first 741 students enrol at the “Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit” (RAU). Lectures start on the 13th February in a tempor
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Macmillan, prime minister of Britain, delivers his ‘wind of change’ speech to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape Town
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Adv. Anton Lubowski, Swapo member who allegedly spied for South Africa and who was later murdered in Windhoek, is born.
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George Ramagaga, S.A. artist is born in Pimville, Johannesburg.
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David James Brown, S.A. artist is born in Johannesburg.
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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of the I
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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) calls a mass meeting to protest against the proposed Asiatic Bill.
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