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Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko leaves the rebel-threatened capital and flees to Gabon to meet African leaders.

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The Advocate-General’s report confirms that the Herstigte Nasionale Party’s office telephones have been illegally tapped and ca

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Capital Media (Pty) Ltd is founded and that makes the publication of the first Rekord/Record newspaper possible.

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Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w

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The Minister for Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that relevant urban Black leaders will be consulted

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo

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The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.

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Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15 commences. It contains banning powers over publications dee

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Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover

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Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis

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Sir Donald Currie, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cup sporting trophy, dies in Sidmouth, Devon, England.

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Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.

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Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.

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C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener

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Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria. ;

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The National Professional Football League (N.F.L.) is founded by eleven clubs from Johannesburg and Pretoria, with Snoyman as c

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The first meeting of the Joint Passive Resistance Council of Natal and the Transvaal is held in Durban.

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Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.

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The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.

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Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth.

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Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, is born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She cam

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South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections (26-29 April) for the national assembly and provincial parliaments start.

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Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor

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The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o

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The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.

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The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o

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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces in Parliament that South Africa and Mozambique are to establish joint operational centre

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A pickup truck rigged with explosives rips through a crowded vegetable market in Tripoli, Libya, killing fifty-four people and

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Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af

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Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko leaves the rebel-threatened capital and flees to Gabon to meet African leaders.

The Advocate-General’s report confirms that the Herstigte Nasionale Party’s office telephones have been illegally tapped and ca

Capital Media (Pty) Ltd is founded and that makes the publication of the first Rekord/Record newspaper possible.

Sipho Mutsi (20), COSAS member, dies in police custody during interrogation. Post –mortem reveals head injuries and sjambok w

The Minister for Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that relevant urban Black leaders will be consulted

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo

The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.

Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15 commences. It contains banning powers over publications dee

Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover

Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis

Sir Donald Currie, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cup sporting trophy, dies in Sidmouth, Devon, England.

Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.

C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener

Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria. ;

The National Professional Football League (N.F.L.) is founded by eleven clubs from Johannesburg and Pretoria, with Snoyman as c

The first meeting of the Joint Passive Resistance Council of Natal and the Transvaal is held in Durban.

Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.

The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.

Sierra Leone achieves independence after more than 150 years of British rule and becomes a republic within the Commonwealth.

Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, is born in Hoyland, Yorkshire, England. She cam

South Africa’s first all-race democratic elections (26-29 April) for the national assembly and provincial parliaments start.

Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor

The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o

The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.

The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o

Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces in Parliament that South Africa and Mozambique are to establish joint operational centre

A pickup truck rigged with explosives rips through a crowded vegetable market in Tripoli, Libya, killing fifty-four people and

Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af