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A major detailed Administration statement is made by the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, David
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Press statement, released by Nelson R. Mandela, Honorary Secretary of the All-in African National Council, June 26, 1961
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250 persons demonstrate outside the South African embassy in Washington in protest against apartheid and President Reagan’s pol
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Thomas Mtobi Mapikela, businessman, politician and speaker of the African National Congress (ANC) who was the first chairperson
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Thirty-eight African and Asian delegations table a draft resolution in the Trusteeship Committee asking for an effective United
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Application in Venda of Certain South African Laws Relating to Transition to Democracy Proclamation No 26 commences, recognisin
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Four historically divided and entirely separate bodies unite and form the South African Football Association, marking the begin
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Application in Transkei of Certain South African Laws Relating to Transitional Democracy, Decree No 13, giving recognition to t
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and African nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo sign an agreement to start full constitutional n
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Central African Republic becomes an autonomous member of the French Commonwealth with Boganda as president. (Now a National Da
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South African President P.W. Botha fires the government’s only non-White Cabinet Minister, Amichand Rajbansi, with effect from
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Hercules George Robert Robinson, South African high commissioner and governor (1880-89, 1895-97), is born in Ireland.
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The South African authorities publish a notice granting indemnity from prosecution to all exiles that left the country illegall
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The General Assembly, in resolution 3324 E (XXIX) recommended that "the South African regime should be totally excluded fr
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The South African Institute of Race Relations reports that 433 people are known to be still in custody.
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The South African Indian Council (SAIC) unanimously rejects the government’s proposed new constitution, after two days of lengt
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Walter Sisulu addresses an African National Congress meeting in Durban and gives a comprehensive account of his travel through
ArchiveList of grievances sent by African pupils to the Regional Director of Bantu Education in the Western Cape
A list of grievances sent to the Regional Director of Bantu Education, later published in the Cape Times on 2 December 1976
Statement of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC): Lusaka, Zambia, 16 February 1990
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WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.
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In a communiqué issued today, the African Union’s peace and security council lays out the responsibilities of a peace mi
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The KwaZulu government issues a document signed by all six Executive Councillors inviting the South African government to test
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South African and Saudi Arabian envoys hold talks with Colonel Gaddafi to try to resolve the Lockerbie checkmate.
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The conference of the Organisation of African Unity ends in Addis Ababa, divided over the Angolan civil war.
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Neil Aggett, South African worker’s union leader, commits suicide while in detention, allegedly by hanging himself with a scarf
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The Defence Amendment Bill, making provision for the employment of South African conscripted troops anywhere outside South Afri
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Operation PROTECTO (3 February 1994 – December 1994) of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) to restore peace on
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South African President F. W. de Klerk opens parliament with a speech promising the demolition of the remaining pillars of apar
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Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students’ Organisation, is killed by a parcel bomb near Gaborone, Botswana
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