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Multi-Party negotiators agree to the re-incorporation of the TBVC states (Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda).

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At least fourteen people are killed and twenty-four injured in a bomb explosion in a market in Algiers.

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Ismail Mahomed Ayob, attorney, notary, economist and recipient of various awards, is born in Mafeking (now Mafikeng).

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Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, is born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape.

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Dr Albertus J.R. van Rhijn (81), newspaper editor, member of parliament and minister of Economic Affairs, dies.

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Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.

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Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.

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Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.

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Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher

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Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and unselfish fighter for the underprivileged, is born in Vredefort, OFS.

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Landdros Anders Stockenstr&ouml;m (father of Sir Andries Stockenstr&ouml;m), seven or eight burghers and an interpreter are att

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James Chapman, photographer and pioneer explorer in many regions of the Zambezi, is born in Cape Town.

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A C-130 Hercules with ten passengers and a crew of four, under which a SA pilot, disappears near Huambo, Angola.

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Richard John Maponya, leading race-horse breeder and businessperson, is born in Pietersburg (Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (no

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Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in K&ouml;nigsberg,

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Peace agreement signed, ending seven-year Rhodesian guerrilla war and 15-year rebellion against the British crown.

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The Secretary-General announces that Mrs. Sadako Ogata, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Chairman

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Thomas Mshoki Gcabashe, local IFP official, is killed, shot forty-five times in the neck and shoulder.

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Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic leader of the Zion Christian Church,

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Rival political and ethnic groups riot in Rwanda, killing at least five people ahead of peace talks.

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Nation-wide protests against and boycotts of the celebration of twenty years of the South African Republic.

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Salisbury announces that Rhodesian troops have captured and occupied the town of Mapai, 100km inside Mozambique.

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Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

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Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

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In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

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In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

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The Bloemfontein Conference between President Paul Kruger and British High Commissioner Sir Alfred Milner, under President Stey

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Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls

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Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.

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Ephraim Mojalefa (Kid) Ngatane, artist, teacher, musician and boxer, dies of tuberculosis at the Barangwanath Hospital, Soweto.

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Multi-Party negotiators agree to the re-incorporation of the TBVC states (Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda).

At least fourteen people are killed and twenty-four injured in a bomb explosion in a market in Algiers.

Ismail Mahomed Ayob, attorney, notary, economist and recipient of various awards, is born in Mafeking (now Mafikeng).

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, is born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape.

Dr Albertus J.R. van Rhijn (81), newspaper editor, member of parliament and minister of Economic Affairs, dies.

Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.

Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.

Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.

Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher

Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and unselfish fighter for the underprivileged, is born in Vredefort, OFS.

Landdros Anders Stockenstr&amp;ouml;m (father of Sir Andries Stockenstr&amp;ouml;m), seven or eight burghers and an interpreter are att

James Chapman, photographer and pioneer explorer in many regions of the Zambezi, is born in Cape Town.

A C-130 Hercules with ten passengers and a crew of four, under which a SA pilot, disappears near Huambo, Angola.

Richard John Maponya, leading race-horse breeder and businessperson, is born in Pietersburg (Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (no

Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in K&amp;ouml;nigsberg,

Peace agreement signed, ending seven-year Rhodesian guerrilla war and 15-year rebellion against the British crown.

The Secretary-General announces that Mrs. Sadako Ogata, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Chairman

Thomas Mshoki Gcabashe, local IFP official, is killed, shot forty-five times in the neck and shoulder.

Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic leader of the Zion Christian Church,

Rival political and ethnic groups riot in Rwanda, killing at least five people ahead of peace talks.

Nation-wide protests against and boycotts of the celebration of twenty years of the South African Republic.

Salisbury announces that Rhodesian troops have captured and occupied the town of Mapai, 100km inside Mozambique.

Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

The Bloemfontein Conference between President Paul Kruger and British High Commissioner Sir Alfred Milner, under President Stey

Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls

Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.

Ephraim Mojalefa (Kid) Ngatane, artist, teacher, musician and boxer, dies of tuberculosis at the Barangwanath Hospital, Soweto.

Landdros Anders Stockenström (father of Sir Andries Stockenström), seven or eight burghers and an interpreter are att

Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in Königsberg,