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Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, SA artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso st
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Following the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa (in 1925 by DF Malan), Afrikaner
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Following the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa (in 1925 by DF Malan), Afrikaner
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Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru
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A four-day conference (16-19 June) to examine racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa is held in Lisbon, Portugal, or
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”Urban Native Legislation”. Memorandum to the Minister for Native Affairs from the Location Advisory Boards’ Congress of South Africa, September 8, 1930
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Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to help keep Nelson Mandela alive in gaol
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The first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, is banned again for a further five years.
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The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo
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The South African government and ANC leaders hold talks, brokered by the United Nations Special Envoy to South Africa, Cyrus Va
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The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o
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South African President F.W. de Klerk demotes two Cabinet ministers in charge of security, Magnus Malan and Adriaan Vlok, to de
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The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an
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The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap
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Rwandan refugees trickle into Zaire now Congo after the border is opened, to escape filthy, crowded camps where death from chol
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The Council of 17 decides at a meeting in Amsterdam that Mauritius be abandoned as a subordinate settlement to that of the Cape
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A UN agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700 000 people facing serious food shortages i
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Six South African members of the PAC are sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment, by the Tanzanian High Court, for the killing
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Minister of Defence P.W. Botha announces during a press visit to the Caprivi Strip that the Defence Force has taken over protec
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John Wiley, the leader of the South African Party (SAP), announces that his party is to disband. SAP representatives will retai
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In terms of a new General Laws Amendment Bill, the death penalty is extended to people who have undergone sabotage training wit
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Gé Korsten, popular SA singer, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to SA at the age of nine years.
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British mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned after having failed with much loss of life on both sides. He was ultimately d
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Chris Hani is reported as saying that the ANC alliance is “preparing for a battle in the Ciskei” to remove parasites, obviously
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Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Confederation of British industry London, 4 July 1990
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Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, to the party parliament group on South Africa London, 3 July 1990
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The minister of mines announces that SA scientists under Drs A.J.A. Roux and W.L. Grant have developed a new method to enrich u
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The League of Nations agrees to award former German colonies as mandates: Tanganyika (which formed the greater part of the Germ
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General C.J. Spruyt is killed in action while attempting to cross the railway line between Val Station a
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