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Orlando Pirates becomes the first Southern African soccer team to win the African League of Champions, beating Ivory Coast’s AS
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A secret exchange of letters between the leaders of France and Italy commits both countries to respect each other’s rights in N
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SA signs agreement with Namibia relating to the administration of the judicial system after the incorporation of Walvis Bay int
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Balancing bundles of food and clothing on their heads, Rwandan refugees who previously refused to return home begin re-entering
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The General Assembly declares that the South African regime has "no right to represent the people of South Africa" an
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The General Assembly of the United Nations decides with thirty-seven votes against nine, not to incorporate South West Africa i
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Prisoner Nelson Mandela has the first of three meetings with State President F.W. de Klerk to discuss the future SA.
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The interim state Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, created on 1 June 1979, returns to colonial status and becomes the colony of Zimbabwe-Rhod
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A police patrol, out to investigate an assassination attempt in the Transkei, are attacked by a gang of about sixty Poqo member
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Magersfontein continues. At about midday the British retire to their camp at Modder River.
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American President Reagan, in a speech made on International Human Rights Day, calls on the Pretoria government to engage in ef
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Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the
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It is announced that the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council has accepted a five-year plan designed to give South Africa
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Labour Input to the Presidential Job Summit presented on behalf of COSATU, FEDUSA and NACTU by John Gomomo, COSATU President
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Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric
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Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police
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National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana, says that the NPKF will probably not be ready to keep the pea
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Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which SA is a party, is signed in Montego Bay.
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In response to a question in parliament, the minister of education and development aid, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, said that 917 school
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President Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas
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Marthinus A. Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States
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With the return of President Lucas Mangope to office after the short-lived coup, students at the University of Bophuthatswana d
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The appointment of South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States, R.F. ‘Pik’ Botha, as the country’s next foreign minister, is
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The United Nations Secretary-General, Dr. Waldheim, announces in New York that he has received a formal invitation to visit Sou
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Two policemen are killed by a group of Blacks near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to collection of poll-tax, which
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South Africa is to make its own missiles. Kentron (Pty) Ltd, a newly formed subsidiary of ARMSCOR (the South African Armaments
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Native Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is strongly co
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Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb
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