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The Convention of Pretoria is signed by a British commission and the Transvaal Triumvirate, whereby self government is restored

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Chief Buthelezi chief minister of KwaZulu and Mr Ramodike chief minister of Lebowa, boycott a meeting between non-independent h

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Public Security Amendment Act No 6, making further amendments to state security legislation and allowing for greater control by

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Dr Cornelius Francois Visser (Vader Visser), educator and cultural leader who founded the Voortrekker Beweging, an Afrikaner yo

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The monarchy in Tunis ends and the country becomes a republic with Habib ben Ali Bourguiba as first president.

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The first successful Caesarean is carried out in Cape Town. The lives of mother and baby are saved.

Why Did it happen? Religious and lay Explanations of the spanish flue epidemic of 1918 in South Africa

Apartheid and the Removal of Black Spots from Lake Bhangazi in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa by Bradley Skelcher

Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner

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Twenty-six elderly tourists from Britain and a South African tour guide are killed in a bus accident near Lydenburg.

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A British newspaper reports heavy fighting between Angolan government forces and Unita, in which SA is allegedly taking part.

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Egypt and Jordan formally resume diplomatic relations. Jordan announces it will restore relations with Egypt, something no Arab

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The performance of Black drama and music by mushrooming township cultural groups becomes a significant factor in the propagatin

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The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 17-6 in the third test in Auckland and wins the series 2-1.

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The Netherlands government suspends its cultural agreement with South Africa and proposed visits by several other Dutch groups

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British troops march from Simonstown and General J.H. Craig enters Cape Town. Sluysken formally surrenders on 16 September.

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Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, shake hands after concluding the Declaration of

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Rachel Alexander (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist born in Latvia in 1914, dies in Cape Town.

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Gen. Benjamin (Ben) Johannes Viljoen, Boer general, war hero and author, is born in Wodehouse district, Cape Colony.

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SA signs a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the voluntary repatriation and

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Riots continue, 4-5 September. The youth come out in the Coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court are se

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An explosion occurs at the Department of Internal Affairs, Harrison Street, Johannesburg, injuring four people and causing dama

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Premier H.F. Verwoerd assumes duty as Prime Minister and announces an intensification of the apartheids policy in parliament.

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Dr Martin Heinrich (Hinrich) Karl Lichtenstein (77), physician, naturalist and explorer of the interior of South Africa, dies o

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Tinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player who played for Kaizer Chiefs and was winner of the Kick

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Sir Harry Smith proclaims the territory between the Orange and Vaal Rivers British territory, discounting protests by Voortrekk

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Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho to protest election results, while a week-old mutiny by a

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Cyprian Bhekuzulu Nyangayezizwe KaDinuzulu, fourth son of Solomon KaDinuzulu and Paramount Chief of the Zulus for twenty years,

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The ANC sent a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end violent police action.

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Deadline for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, to leave Djibouti is set.