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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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President Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas

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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow

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The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference decides to prepare to resist. It also decides to send delegations to India,

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The South African Defence Force (SADF) admits the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), which

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Revised figures for the Defence Budget indicate the funds available to the South African Defence Force have been increased to R

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Pixley Seme (also called Pixley ka Isaka Seme), politician and co-founder of the African National Congress, dies in Johannesbur

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Joshua Nkomo, president of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (Zapu) and a future vice-president of Zimbabwe, is born at a Lon

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Cecil John Rhodes gives evidence before the South African Committee of the House of Commons on the Jameson Raid enquiry.

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The South African Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) announces in Pretoria that it has decided to order two nuclear power st

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At its inaugural Congress in Pretoria, the South African Party commits itself to a federal or confederal solution to the countr

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Sibusiso Vilane, a game ranger with dual South African and Swazi nationality reaches the summit of Mount Everest, where he plan

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The government is reported to have frozen the South African assets of the former Information Secretary, Dr. Eschel Roodie, and

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The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 1925

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SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr

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The South African Tsunami Relief Fund hands over a first bulk donation of R700 000 to the International Red Cross.

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Walter Whall Battiss, South African educationist, painter and specialist on the San art, is born in Somerset East, Eastern Cape

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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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In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime. The nation’s

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Angolan, Cuban, South African and United States officials meet in Cairo, in search of independence for Namibia in tandem with a

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African and some other delegates walk out of the International Labour Conference in Geneva when delegates of the Government and

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The Minister of Finance announces a change in the South African exchange rate practice. Henceforth the Rand is tied strictly to

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WWII: The Second South African Division under Major-General H.B. Klopper surrenders and the German force under Gen. Rommel capt

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The Minister of Defence denies that South African troops are supporting Portuguese armed forces in Mozambique, as alleged by FR

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Sam Kahn announces in Parliament that the Communist Party of South African has disbanded. The announcement is made a few days b

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The United Nations Security Council is called into session at the urgent request of the African states. It issues a unanimous c

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The first completely SA built aeroplane is flown by John Weston in Kimberley. He establishing a South African non-stop flight r

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Hilgard Muller, visits Portugal (15-17 June), and says that Portuguese and South African f

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Prime Minister Vorster and Dr. Hilgard Muller arrive in Geneva. A meeting is held with twelve South African ambassadors to Euro

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President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast announces he is planning an African Summit Conference to urge a dialogue with Sou