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President Paul Kruger urges closer union of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. A treaty of alliance follows.
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Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties the most representative gathering of South African political gr
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo becomes the first South African group to win a Grammy award. The group wins the best traditional folk a
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It is announced in Johannesburg that restriction orders have been issued against six leaders of the South African Students’ Org
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Black Men in a White Man’s War: The Impact of the First World War on South African Blacks by Albert Grundlingh
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South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W
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It is announced that Jacob Sello Selebi (Jackie) is appointed the new National Commissioner of the South African Police service
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The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin
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Gana Makabeni, trade union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the
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African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela states that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held pol
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President F.W. de Klerk meets the leaders of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) at the Union Buildings, Pretoria.
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The Star reports that a South African, Johan Hattingh, a former Task Force member, who was working with US company DynCorp in B
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Glynis Johns, South African actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners, Coming of Age, Glynis), is bo
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Joint routine exercises are held between the British Royal Navy and the South African Navy, under the Simonstown Agreement, and
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The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, is damaged by a bomb blast and nineteen people are inj
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P.W. Botha becomes the first South African Prime Minister to visit Soweto. His visit includes talks with the Soweto Community C
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World War 2: The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeats Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Bat
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Anglo-German secret agreement on future of African territories of Portugal, whereby Britain is to obtain lease of Delagoa Bay a
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Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, co-founder of i.a. The African Garment Workers’ Union in Cape Town, jailed and
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The Minister of Education, Prof. Kader Asmal, launches the South African History Project at the Old Fort in Johannesburg, aimin
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The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) chooses the South African Reverend Alan Boesak, of the Dutch Reformed Mission Ch
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Former president Nelson Mandela is declared the ‘Greatest South African’ in a TV show that had the country nominate their 100 f
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Leaders of five black African nations decline to accept plan presented by Rhodesia’s Prime Minister Ian Smith to achieve black
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South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive, meeting in Cape Town, elects Sorabjee Rustomjee as a delegate of SAIC to the me
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The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Sub-Committee opens an inquiry into the South African operations of 320 Am
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Dr. Eschel Rhoodie is extradited from France and handed over to the South African authorities. He appears briefly in Pretoria’s
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A spokesman at the Police Headquarters in Pretoria states that the strength of the South African Police Reserve has reached 17,
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South African Airways (SAA) announces the re-routing of its services to Europe via Luanda (Angola), Brazzaville, the Cape Verde
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Pierre Stephanus de Wet, SA actor, producer and pioneer of Afrikaans sound films, is born in Pretoria. African Film Product
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