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Magnus André De Merindol Malan, former SA Minister of Defence, 1980, is born in Pretoria.
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Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot
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Mohandas Gandhi is released from prison by Gen. J.C. Smuts.
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William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa
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A proclamation of Lord Charles Somerset prohibits the use of Dutch in courts, commencing 1March.
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US President Bush announces an initiative to spend $15bn over five years for Aids treatment and prevention in twelve African co
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In a direct defiance to South Africa’s patent laws, Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins
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In Egypt, a 32-year-old housewife is the first woman to file for divorce under a new law that doesn’t require women to prove ph
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date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African
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The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is incorporated as a private company with the State as sole shareholder.
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The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on ‘third force
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Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James’s Church in Cape Town in
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Eight people are killed and 29 injured in riots outside a factory in Johannesburg.
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Ten mineworkers are killed in fighting between two rival groups at a hostel at Vaal Reefs Mine.
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French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
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At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i
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Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They
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Linda Brakvis of Heldemoed, OFS, UDF member, is found stabbed three days after release from detention.
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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup
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Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the “Stellenbosch-boerorkes”, dies.
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Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
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The Durban College of Education is started in the backyard of the Durban Girls’ High School.
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The first violence caused by apartheid occurs in Johannesburg.
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WW2: German and Italian forces take Benghazi, Libya.
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The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hert
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Brassmen attack Royal Niger Company’s station at Akassa, West Africa, and kill and eat forty-three captives. Christian chiefs o
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Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, national co-ordinator of The Gift Of The Givers Foundation, announces in Johannesburg that the foundation i
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