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The United States Senate votes to ban economic aid to members of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SAD

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The United States Senate votes to ban economic aid to members of the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference (SAD

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A two day conference on violence and intimidations starts in Pretoria. The ANC, AZAPO, PAC, COSATU and South African Council of

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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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Condom use and multiple-drug &quot;cocktails&quot; have slowed the spread of Aids cases in certain African countries, the 12th

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Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC &quot;peace

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Samuel Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in the par

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A newspaper reports that the South African government told the World Court in a letter that it is prepared to hold a plebiscite

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During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians calls on the Prime

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In Cape Town the heaviest possible sentence in the South African Justice system is imposed on the Niewoudtville murder gang –

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Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.

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The prime minister of Lesotho, Chief Jonathan, is reported to be prepared to co-operate with the South African government.

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SAA, inaugurated the previous year, takes over South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail

… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 613. …

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The judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Activities of the South African Council of Churches (SACC) accuses it of pursuing s

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Dr. Jon Lewis, British editor of the South African Labour Bulletin is told to leave the country within thirty days.

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The South African government decides to finance the first phase of the construction of a new railway line between Southern Mala

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The Groote Schuur talks start (2-4 May) between the South African government and the ANC. They reach agreement on conditions fo

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Louis Botha and James Barry Munnik Herzog form the nationalist United South African (or Unionist) Party, calling for South Afri

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Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem

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Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem

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Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa’s United African National Council has won fifty-one of the seventy-two seats available to Black candida

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South African Airways suspends flights to Angola after an SAA aircraft was struck by bullets on approaching that country’s Crav

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Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They a

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Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C

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The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a

… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 113. …

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The Commission of Inquiry into the South African Press tables the second part of its report, severely criticising the reporting

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British prime minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, states that Britain’s successes in the South African ca

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Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.