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African National Congress President Nelson Mandela acknowledges that prisoners in congress military camps had been tortured dur
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Seven African National Congress members receive a tumultuous welcome in Soweto following their release after twenty-six years’
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Fourteen people, including leading members of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People’s Convention
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It is announced that South African writer Nadine Gordimer is to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Britain announces a decision to write off the debt of six African countries, a package of millions of pounds.
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Six South-West Africans, all members of the National Party, are elected to the South African Parliament.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the South African Government initialled a Memorandum of Understan
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South African companies donate twelve tons of food worth R100 000 to "the people of Moscow".
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During a meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, President Kenneth Kaunda supports acting South African President F.W. de Klerk’s moves
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Oliver Tambo, president of the ANC, denies that it is in contact with the South African government.
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Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka establishes the African Democratic Party in conjunction with Senator Hyman Basner. The organisation had
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Sidney Mendelssohn, collector of Africana and author of the South African Bibliography in 1910, dies in London.
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Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe appeals to five African nations to help put down rebellion in the Congo.
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South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n
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The South African government begins removing 45 000 Bakalobeng tribesmen from a Transvaal area into the Bophuthatswana homeland
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South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n
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Jeremy Cronin, South African Communist Party politician and former political prisoner in the Pretoria Maximum Security Prison,
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Foreign ministers of Organisation of African Unity approve plan to end rebellion and political strife in Congo.
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Foreign ministers of Organisation of African Unity approve plan to end rebellion and political strife in Congo.
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Nation-wide protests against and boycotts of the celebration of twenty years of the South African Republic.
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The White-led South African government commits itself to scrapping dozens of laws restricting movements of Blacks.
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”The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution”: An interview with Dr Dadoo, 1968
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South African economists express shock at a report showing the country dropping twelve places in global competitiveness ranking
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Londoners celebrate ten years of democracy with the first South African International film Festival (1-9 May), starting with ‘T
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The White-led South African government commits itself to scrapping dozens of laws restricting movements of Blacks.
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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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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha, whose portfolio now includes the South African Information Services, promises to give opposition
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South African President P. W. Botha grants reprieves to the "Sharpeville Six", the six Black South Africans who were
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The Citizen reports that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in Namibia have been withdrawn in November.
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