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SA’s new constitution is enacted by parliament, signalling the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa.

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Four Black newspapers, Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan, are banned on a technicality on the same day

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The Secretary-General submitted a report to the Security Council on the efforts to establish peace and to promote multi-party n

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Miss Marjorie Courtney-Latimer and Prof. J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University identify the first coelacanth after it had been thou

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The lengthy trial of nine Black nationalist student leaders ends. They are found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced t

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The first peace conference with Israel and her Arab neighbours opens in Geneva. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United States, the S

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Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco

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Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les

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Justice John Foxcroft rejects the plea for acquittal of Allan Boesak’s defence and postpones the case until the following year.

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Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.

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The first rocket to be wholly developed and manufactured in South Africa is successfully launched from the new rocket launching

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Prof. Christian Gustav Waldemar Schumann, dean of the faculty for economy at the University of Stellenbosch and member of the h

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Daniël Petrus Goosen (53), member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Science and

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A secret exchange of letters between the leaders of France and Italy commits both countries to respect each other’s rights in N

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In a meeting at the White House President Thabo Mbeki urges President George W. Bush to deliver more African aid support. The t

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Rhodesia formally ends nearly ninety years of White minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.

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Caswell Sipho Makama, advisor to the minister of public works and chair of Onderstepoort Biological products as well as directo

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Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, SA artist, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street and Jubilee Art

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The Rwanda Genocide. At least 500,000 are reported as dead from the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda.

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More than 200 South African religious leaders representing the Christian, Moslem, Jewish and Hindu faiths, decide at the end of

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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Vlakfontein (the present day Derby), Gen. Kemp attacks Brigadier-Gen. Dixon and captures the field guns. D

Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged)

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Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded

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The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p

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The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t

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The artillery bombards the strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square during the Rand Revolt and it falls to the government. Befo

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In a radio and television interview, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, sets out the principles on which he is leading the government t

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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph

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SA’s new constitution is enacted by parliament, signalling the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa.

Four Black newspapers, Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan, are banned on a technicality on the same day

The Secretary-General submitted a report to the Security Council on the efforts to establish peace and to promote multi-party n

Miss Marjorie Courtney-Latimer and Prof. J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University identify the first coelacanth after it had been thou

The lengthy trial of nine Black nationalist student leaders ends. They are found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced t

The first peace conference with Israel and her Arab neighbours opens in Geneva. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United States, the S

Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco

Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les

Justice John Foxcroft rejects the plea for acquittal of Allan Boesak’s defence and postpones the case until the following year.

Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.

The first rocket to be wholly developed and manufactured in South Africa is successfully launched from the new rocket launching

Prof. Christian Gustav Waldemar Schumann, dean of the faculty for economy at the University of Stellenbosch and member of the h

Daniël Petrus Goosen (53), member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Science and

A secret exchange of letters between the leaders of France and Italy commits both countries to respect each other’s rights in N

In a meeting at the White House President Thabo Mbeki urges President George W. Bush to deliver more African aid support. The t

Rhodesia formally ends nearly ninety years of White minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.

Caswell Sipho Makama, advisor to the minister of public works and chair of Onderstepoort Biological products as well as directo

Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, SA artist, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street and Jubilee Art

The Rwanda Genocide. At least 500,000 are reported as dead from the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda.

More than 200 South African religious leaders representing the Christian, Moslem, Jewish and Hindu faiths, decide at the end of

WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

Anglo-Boer War 2: At Vlakfontein (the present day Derby), Gen. Kemp attacks Brigadier-Gen. Dixon and captures the field guns. D

Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged)

Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded

The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p

The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t

The artillery bombards the strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square during the Rand Revolt and it falls to the government. Befo

In a radio and television interview, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, sets out the principles on which he is leading the government t

TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph