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The results of four Parliamentary by-elections show a decided swing to the Herstigte Nasionale Party and low percentage polls.
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SA signs an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees governing the legal status, privileges and immunit
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Hymne Weiss, SA author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, is born in Rouxville, OFS.
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Telkom South Africa Limited officially comes into being and is incorporated as a company with the State as sole shareholder.
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President F.W. de Klerk vehemently denies any direct or indirect talks between the African National Congress (ANC) leaders and
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The sixth and final report of the Wiehahn Commission, inquiring into labour legislation, is tabled in Parliament. Dealing with
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The United Nations General Assembly asks the Security Council to review the relationship between the United Nations and South A
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Political assassination: Sam Ntuli (31), general secretary of CAST, chair of Thokoza Civic Association and ANC member, is shot
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Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, is born in Krugersdorp.
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Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, is born in Krugersdorp.
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General Constand Viljoen is appointed as Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Lieutenant-General Jan Geldenhuys
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Two rebels of the Graaff-Reinet Rebellion five years previously, Marthinus Prinsloo and Adriaan van Jaarsveld, are sentenced to
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Ramola Makan, freelance consultant, writer of several cookery books and recipient of inter alia the Silwood Kitchen Honorary Gr
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At least six people die and more than 100 are injured in a giant gas explosion at Sasol in Secunda.
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Nelson Mandela is discharged from Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital where he was treated for tuberculosis and transferred to a pri
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Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya after a coup d’état, deposing King Idris and exiling him to Egypt.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Piet Fourie, joined by Nieuwoudt and Kritzinger, take Ladybrand, OFS, in a street by street fight,
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Theophilus Shepstone, son of British Settlers and appointed by the British government as Diplomatic Agent to the Native Tribes
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Danie Theron captures a train and 30 soldiers at Klip Station, near the present-day Soweto.
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Dean Tshenuwani Simon Farisane, pastor, co-translator of the Venda Bible, ANC politician and current MEC for Transport, Limpopo
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Sir John William Akerman, Natal businessman, politician and speaker of the Natal colonial parliament, is born in Plymouth, Engl
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Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,
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William (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He died in 1986 in Dortmund, West G
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A.K. Ganyile, a Pondo leader and refugee in Basutoland is kidnapped with two companions by six South African policemen, taken a
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Isabella Gordon (Tibbie) Visser, daughter of Pres. M.T. Steyn, politician and leader of the Voortrekker Youth Movement, is born
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Talks between Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the African National Council start in a r
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An earthquake, measuring 6,5 on the Richter scale, hits Tulbach, Ceres and Wolseley, killing eleven people, leaving 1 000 homel
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An earthquake, measuring 6,5 on the Richter scale, hits Tulbach, Ceres and Wolseley, killing eleven people, leaving 1 000 homel
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According to Alex Holmes, chairperson of the South African Arms and Ammunition Dealers Association, five retailers have gone ba
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