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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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Joseph Tshifura Makhari, engineer, student leader and recipient of various international study grants is born in Thohoyandou, V

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Rebels begin an offensive in Eritrea, Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s military government orders bombers, armoured units and troops into o

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Inkatha Freedom Party dismisses Dr Ben Ngubane, premier of KwaZulu-Natal, and Vincent Zulu, MEC for education.

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Mondli Gungubele, trade unionist and MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts &amp; Culture, Gauteng Provincial Government 1999-, is bor

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In an address to the Foreign Correspondents Association, minister of cooperation and development, Dr Gerrit Viljoen , announces

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Relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa deteriorate further when the Minister of Police, L. le Grange, threatens retaliator

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Eleven people are killed in Nancefield, PWV, in a clash between Nancefield hostel and Power Park squatter camp.

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Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.

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The theatre, movie and broadcasting arts committee of the FAK is established with Prof. G. Cronjé as chairman.

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William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba), author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagon-maker, dies in Lovedale, East

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AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates

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Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.

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Britain concludes Treaty of Pretoria with Boers, recognising independence of the ZAR. The Transvaal Triumvirate and a British R

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ANC insurgents launch a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station, Johannesburg. Pamphlets are scattered dema

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AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates

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Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell (56), SA poet and writer, is killed in a car accident in Portugal

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Egyptian president Muhammad Hosni Mubarak orders direct-dial communications to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and the Sudan

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Prof. Maarten Christiaan Roode, first music professor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and compil

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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant who resisted several Graaff-Reinet magistrates over frontier policy and was elected

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Dr Rudolph Marloth (75), collector of plants and author of botany books, dies in Caledon, Western Cape.

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The British Sports Council urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all other international sporting governing bodie

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France and independent French-speaking West African states initiate an agreement setting up a West African Monetary Union.

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Johannes Kerkorrel (Ralph John Rabie), Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg. He died in 2002.

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William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a

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French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.

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A meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), African People’s Organisation (APO), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaa

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SA wins the third cricket test against New Zealand in Wellington with 8 wickets and the series with 1-0.

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President Marien Ngouabi of the Congo is assassinated in a military coup and replaced by Colonel Yhombi-Opango.

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The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.

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The President’s Council is formally inaugurated as a policy-advisory, problem-directed, reform-orientated and future-looking bo

Joseph Tshifura Makhari, engineer, student leader and recipient of various international study grants is born in Thohoyandou, V

Rebels begin an offensive in Eritrea, Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s military government orders bombers, armoured units and troops into o

Inkatha Freedom Party dismisses Dr Ben Ngubane, premier of KwaZulu-Natal, and Vincent Zulu, MEC for education.

Mondli Gungubele, trade unionist and MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts &amp;amp; Culture, Gauteng Provincial Government 1999-, is bor

In an address to the Foreign Correspondents Association, minister of cooperation and development, Dr Gerrit Viljoen , announces

Relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa deteriorate further when the Minister of Police, L. le Grange, threatens retaliator

Eleven people are killed in Nancefield, PWV, in a clash between Nancefield hostel and Power Park squatter camp.

Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.

The theatre, movie and broadcasting arts committee of the FAK is established with Prof. G. Cronjé as chairman.

William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba), author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagon-maker, dies in Lovedale, East

AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates

Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.

Britain concludes Treaty of Pretoria with Boers, recognising independence of the ZAR. The Transvaal Triumvirate and a British R

ANC insurgents launch a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station, Johannesburg. Pamphlets are scattered dema

AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates

Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell (56), SA poet and writer, is killed in a car accident in Portugal

Egyptian president Muhammad Hosni Mubarak orders direct-dial communications to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and the Sudan

Prof. Maarten Christiaan Roode, first music professor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and compil

Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant who resisted several Graaff-Reinet magistrates over frontier policy and was elected

Dr Rudolph Marloth (75), collector of plants and author of botany books, dies in Caledon, Western Cape.

The British Sports Council urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all other international sporting governing bodie

France and independent French-speaking West African states initiate an agreement setting up a West African Monetary Union.

Johannes Kerkorrel (Ralph John Rabie), Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg. He died in 2002.

William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a

French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.

A meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), African People’s Organisation (APO), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaa

SA wins the third cricket test against New Zealand in Wellington with 8 wickets and the series with 1-0.

President Marien Ngouabi of the Congo is assassinated in a military coup and replaced by Colonel Yhombi-Opango.

The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.

Mondli Gungubele, trade unionist and MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts & Culture, Gauteng Provincial Government 1999-, is bor