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ANC insurgents launch a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station, Johannesburg. Pamphlets are scattered dema
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South Africa signs treaty with Denmark, Norway and Sweden on the temporary amendment of 1958 air agreements.
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African National Congress deputy president Nelson Mandela and Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi agree on a five-point peace p
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Prime Minister Vorster holds his first-ever international press conference and asserts that discussion of separate development
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Joshua Polumo Mohapeloa, regarded as Lesotho’s foremost composer and choral master, is born at Molumong, Mokhotlong district, B
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Minister of Defence P.W. Botha presents a White Paper outlining defence policy and justifying the increased expenditure which n
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Johannes Kerkorrel (Ralph John Rabie), Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg. He died in 2002.
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SA signs agreement with the government of Switzerland concerning support to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).
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Keith McFadden and Zwelakhe Nyanda, both ANC members, are shot dead by two gunmen in Manzini, Swaziland.
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The Angolan government and Unita rebel organisation again sign a peace treaty, the 1994 Lusaka Protocol, reaffirming agreements
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Sifiso Khumalo (13), Msani Chamane (13) and Sibongiseni Makhatini are killed in their homes in Greytown, Natal.
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Israel sends formal invitation to Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat to visit Jerusalem and address the Israeli parliament.
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Dr Hendrik Josephus Terblanche, compiler of eight dictionaries and three grammar books, is born in Aberdeen, CP.
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Anti-apartheid forces hold a Conference for a Democratic Future (CDF) and pass a number of resolutions containing the elements
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Sir Otto John Beit, financier, philanthropist and younger brother of Alfred Beit, is born in Hamburg, Germany.
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John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.
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Government Notice No 149, authorising the arrest and conviction of people found loitering within a municipal area, commences.
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Chief Lennox Sebe is unanimously elected as Ciskei’s president, and the Rev. W.M. Xaba becomes vice-president.
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Multi-Party negotiators agree to the re-incorporation of the TBVC states (Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda).
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At least fourteen people are killed and twenty-four injured in a bomb explosion in a market in Algiers.
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The Special Committee against Apartheid held two-day consultations with 56 participants from non-governmental organisations and
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Otto Krause (69), political analyst and journalist, dies of lung cancer in the Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg.
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Peace agreement signed, ending seven-year Rhodesian guerrilla war and 15-year rebellion against the British crown.
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The Secretary-General announces that Mrs. Sadako Ogata, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Chairman
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Thomas Mshoki Gcabashe, local IFP official, is killed, shot forty-five times in the neck and shoulder.
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According the Safety and Security Minister , replies to a parliamentary question posed by the Democratic Alliance, that 1 
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The Rev. Gideon Johannes Jacobus Boshoff, DRC clergyman and cultural leader, is born near Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal.
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Security Police arrest the leader, Eugene Terreblanche and eight other members of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) after
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Zanzibar, a British protectorate since 1890 and now part of Tanzania, becomes an independent state within the Commonwealth.
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