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Leaders of twenty political parties at the Multi-party Negotiating Process endorse an interim constitution and an electoral bil
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Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts an invitation to visit Israel. The Egyptian foreign minister and his deputy resign ov
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President F.W. de Klerk announces SA beaches open to all racial groups and promises repeal of Separate Amenities Act.
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Albert Nzula, teacher, journalist and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), is born in Rouxville, OFS.
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SA signs co-operation agreement regarding the promotion of investments and amends bilateral air services agreement with the Rep
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James Read, missionary of the London Missionary Society who clashed repeatedly with the authorities and colonists, is born in A
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The Voortrekker commando under Andries Pretorius and Sarel Celliers make a solemn promise to God. Should they be victorious, th
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South Africa cricket players Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock make their debut in a match vs New Zealand, in Durban.
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An explosion at the offices of the Department of Co-operation and Development in Marshalltown, Johannesburg, causes damage to t
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Sir Otto John Beit (65), financier, philanthropist and younger brother of Alfred Beit, dies on his birthday in London.
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English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse sets sail for South Africa, where she will investigate conditions in concentr
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Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi
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The Transkei Legislative Assembly meets for the first time in Umtata and elects Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief Minister.
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Chief George Matanzima and former Transkei minister of finance, Mr Sidney Qaba, appear together in the Transkei Supreme Court.
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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe, Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) leader who was imprisoned and under house arrest for many year
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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M
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Three SA cabinet ministers, Dr Sibusiso Bengu, minister of education, Joe Modise, minister of defence and Mac Maharaj, minister
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Prosecutors in South Africa formally charge former Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan and nineteen others with the murders of t
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A lesbian couple’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal to have their marriage legally recognised and registered succeeds. Mar
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International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid is approved by the General Assembly [Resol
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Representatives of the diamond industry and more than thirty governments agree to certify all legitimate shipments of rough dia
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Mduduzi (Dudu) Kunene, anaesthetist, chair of Siltek Ltd and deputy chair of Kunene Bros Holdings, is born in Boksburg.
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Johann Christiaan Kriegler, Judge of the Constitutional Court and former chairman of the Electoral Commission is born in Pretor
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François Petrus (Toon) van den Heever, SA poet and justice-president, is born in the district of Heidelberg, Tvl.
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The Sudanese government and rebel group Sudan People’s Liberation Army reach a tentative deal to evenly divide the country’s oi
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Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter, who led the trekkers at the Battle of Vegkop against the Matabele (Ndebele), and
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SA exchange notes with the People’s Republic of China regarding the establishment of informal offices in Pretoria and Beijing.
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Robert Mugabe and ZANU Central Committee survive an assassination attempt in a bombing of the party headquarters in Harare. Sev
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The ANC holds its forty-ninth National Conference in Bloemfontein. Its strategy and tactics document “From Resistance to Recons
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