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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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In his opening speech to Parliament, President Botha outlines government policy on the restoration of South African citizenship

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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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Warring factions in Liberia negotiate a cease-fire with help from visiting West African politicians as nearly 1 500 terrified f

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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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The executive of the South African Confederation of Labour (SACL) approves the government’s White Paper accepting the Wiehahn R

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Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu, daughter of African National Congress veterans, Walter and Albertina Sisulu and Minister of Housing sin

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

… Hayes, S. (ed)(2000).Â Who's Who of Southern Africa 2001 ..., Graighall: Jonathan Ball. …

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Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.

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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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The South African Government grants diplomatic immunity and privileges to about 100 UN, Commonwealth, European Community and OA

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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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The third session of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) begins at Gallagher Estate in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.

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General J.B.M. Hertzog, as Prime Minister, forms a coalition government between the National party and the South African Party

… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 426. …

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Victor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town.

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The South African Police Force stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffer casualties in clashes with ‘terrorists’

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The Sowetan announces that a new union for health workers, the African Health Workers’ Congress was launched in Johannesburg.

List of grievances sent by African pupils to the Regional Director of Bantu Education in the Western Cape

List of grievances sent by African pupils to the Regional Director of Bantu Education in the Western Cape

To Nelson Mandela: Statement of the South African Church leaders on the occasion of his 70th birthday

To Nelson Mandela: Statement of the South African Church leaders on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Statement of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC): Lusaka, Zambia, 16 February 1990

Statement of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC): Lusaka, Zambia, 16 February 1990

South African guerrillas strike at nation's oil lifeline, by Quentin Peel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 1980

South African guerrillas strike at nation's oil lifeline, by Quentin Peel, Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 1980

Accomplice in 1988 Witbank Bombing before Amnesty Committee, South African Press Association, 31 January 2000

Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia - legendary health practioner

Jerry Coovadia: the South African doctor who led the fight against HIV in children by Professor Glenda Gray

South African activist Frank Anthony wrote a novel that has been forgotten: why it shouldn’t have been

Teaching South African History in the Digital Age - Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History by Jill E. Kelly & Omar Badsha