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A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investig
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The defence minister, J.J. Fouché, announces in the House of Assembly that he intends to increase the strength of the pe
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Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a
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Hundreds of singing Ethiopians line Addis Ababa’s streets to welcome the return of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant looted
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The Government sets up a quick reaction network of ninety-six police officers and twenty-nine ANC contact personnel to deal wit
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Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert Ouko is found slain at his family farm before he was to have presented a report on corruption. T
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The government publishes the draft of the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill intended to remove most of the remaining rights of Africans
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Up to this date fourteen people have been killed in escalating violence in Venda sparked by allegations of ritual killings and
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Rescue attempts are put into operation to save 435 trapped mineworkers at the Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free Stat
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Mandela declares in Lusaka that the ANC will take power by force if it fails to reach agreement with the government.
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In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U
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Macmillan, prime minister of Britain, delivers his ‘wind of change’ speech to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape Town
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A new Black daily paper, promising to expose political ills, appears in Johannesburg. The Sowetan has the same format as the ba
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The Star reports that the South African Council of Churches rejected the order that the organisation had to declare the identit
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Five men are burned to death in Mdantsane, Ciskei. Mr M. Vellum escapes after already set alight with the five who died.
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Table Bay power station (Cape Town) goes into full commercial operation with what is then deemed to be its ultimate capacity.
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David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers
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City Press reports that (White) matriculants of the Menlo Park High School held a sit-in protest and handed a petition to the p
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Nine of the world’s poorer nations open talks in Lusaka, Zambia, on a joint strategy to break traditional trade links with Sout
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An Avro York aircraft, en route from Johannesburg to London, lands in Nairobi, Kenya, after the machine was damaged when a swar
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The ANC announces that it has given President de Klerk a list of police officers believed to have participated in township viol
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Prime Minister Botha announces that general elections to the House of Assembly and the Provincial Councils will be held on 29 A
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South Africa’s Ryk Neethling beat Igor Berezutsky of Russia by 22-hundredths of a second to win the 200-metre individual medley
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Prof. Ben Marais (89), one of the first persons to denounce apartheid from within the Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Pretoria.
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André Stander, SA’s suave heist man and bank robber, flees to Fort Lauderdale in the US using a false passport. Allan He
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Gen. Christiaan de Wet, accompanied by pres. M.T. Steyn, starts his journey at Doornberg, near Winburg, to invade the Cape Colo
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Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and dis
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The International Cricket Conference (ICC), after meeting in London on 23 and 24 January, decided to suspend as from 1 April al
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Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth and Reconciliat
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