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Molly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner widely respected by Blacks, is born in Port Elizabeth.
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A meeting between the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha and Coloured leaders for preliminary discussion on the constitutional future o
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Helen Suzman, politician opposed to apartheid and former member of parliament for Houghton, is born in Germiston.
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Soldiers assault a crowd demonstrating for political opposition in Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa. Dozens of people are wounded and
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Neville Alexander: The Spirit of Freedom: South African Leaders on Religion and Politics by Charles Villa-Vicencio
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Zambia holds its first multiparty elections, with Frederick Chiluba winning over independence leader and first president, Kenne
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The monthly mail shipping line contract between England and the Cape Colony starts with the steamboat Dane.
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The United Nations General Assembly Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee approves a Declaration on the Elimination of Al
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Johannes Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder, farmer and politician, is born in Graaf
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Explorer Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingston at Ujij and utters the famous words “Dr Livingstone, I presume.”
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SA signs an amendment to a customs union agreement of 11 September 1969 with Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
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Political assassination: Jackson Lufele, ANC Quinzini Village branch executive member, is shot and killed by gunmen introduci
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Marais Steyn (83), former leading figure in the United Party and later National Party, dies in Stellenbosch.
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The Transvaal Attorney General announces that AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche and three associates will face terrorism charges,
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Nigeria’s 1986 Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, novelist, playwright and poet, is born in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria.
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Judge Moroa Tsoka grants a temporary court order to Chief Superintendent Stanley Sagathevan and his suspended colleagues, Chief
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Dr George Lindsay Johnson, SA ophthalmologist and authority on the eyes of animals, is born in England.
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Michael Mapongwana, chair of Western Cape Civic Association and a taxi driver taxi are killed in the taxi.
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Tribute To Vietnam: Letter To The Vietnam Workers` Party And The National Liberation Front, January 26, 1973
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South Africa appoints ambassadors, R.H. Coaton to Argentina, J.C.H. Maree to Australia, and A.A.M. Hamilton to Spain.
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Ludwig Wybren (Louis) Hiemstra, Afrikaans linguist and editor of the Bilingual Dictionary, is born in Lydenburg, Transvaal.
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A car bomb explodes at the Ellis Park Rugby Stadium. Two spectators are killed and thirty-seven injured.
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Eight multi-racial Regional Services Councils are established to provide basic services, such as water and electricity.
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The Weekend World, the first national Black newspaper, is published by the World Printing and Publishing Co.
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Speech at the launch of Edupark, the Turfloop foundation and the chancellor’s fund Johannesburg, 15 April 1998
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SPEECH BY PRESIDENT MANDELA ON VISIT TO MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF ROME Campidoglio, Rome, 17 June 1998
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Speech by President Mandela on visit to mayor and council of Rome Campidoglio, Rome, 17 June 1998
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Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the presidential and Premier Education Awards Ceremony Johannesburg, 23 November 1996
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SA signs memorandum of understanding with the government of Malaysia concluding agreements that enhance trade and investment.
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