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The twentieth anniversary of the GRA (Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners) is celebrated and it is decided to hold the first Afrika

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The ANC suspends all formal talks with the government and issues a statement explaining why it has suspended talks with the Sou

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President PW Botha says the 1989 elections will be scrapped and strong measures will be taken against groups having talks with

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Over 5,000 soldiers supported by tanks, armoured cars and air force units begin manoeuvres in an exercise code named Operation

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Six Fijian rugby players and a radio commentator are banned by the Fijian Rugby Union for travelling to South Africa. The seven

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Funeral service of Rivonia trialist and MK cadre Wilton Mkwayi takes place in King William’s Town. He was awarded this honour

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Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to help keep Nelson Mandela alive in gaol

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The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo

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Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll

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The South African government and ANC leaders hold talks, brokered by the United Nations Special Envoy to South Africa, Cyrus Va

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The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o

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Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who had been in United Nations custody since 2000 and was awaiting trial on charges o

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South African President F.W. de Klerk demotes two Cabinet ministers in charge of security, Magnus Malan and Adriaan Vlok, to de

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A gale force southeaster wrenches the Antipolis loose from her anchor and the ship runs aground at Oudekraal. In the same sto

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Harry Mashabela, reporter for the Star and Patrick Weech, sub-editor for the Rand Daily Mail, are arrested under Section 6 of t

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Ms Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks, Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa since 22 June 2005, is born.

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The government of President Obote of Uganda is overthrown for the second time and replaced by a military council under Gen. Tit

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Steinaecker’s corps’ prisoners taken on 21-07-1901 at Bremersdorp by Boer General Tobias Smuts, are tried and

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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K

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Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre

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Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There

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Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u

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Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with

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Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur

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The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

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Agreement is reached between the South African Police, ANC, SACP and COSATU on the principles outlined by a panel of experts on

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Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator As Prisoner And President, Dies At 95 by Bill Keller (The New York Times), 5 December 2013

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Document 103 - Programme of the National Liberation League of S.A. as Revised and Adopted at First Congress, Cape Town, March 1937

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Document 16 - Joint Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All-African Convention and the African National Congress, 17 April 1949

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Keynote Address to the IMBIZO ON GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER: ITS LEGACY AND LESSONS, Peninsula Technikon, 29 May 2004 BY Saleem Badat

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The twentieth anniversary of the GRA (Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners) is celebrated and it is decided to hold the first Afrika

The ANC suspends all formal talks with the government and issues a statement explaining why it has suspended talks with the Sou

President PW Botha says the 1989 elections will be scrapped and strong measures will be taken against groups having talks with

Over 5,000 soldiers supported by tanks, armoured cars and air force units begin manoeuvres in an exercise code named Operation

Six Fijian rugby players and a radio commentator are banned by the Fijian Rugby Union for travelling to South Africa. The seven

Funeral service of Rivonia trialist and MK cadre Wilton Mkwayi takes place in King William’s Town. He was awarded this honour

Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to help keep Nelson Mandela alive in gaol

The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo

Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll

The South African government and ANC leaders hold talks, brokered by the United Nations Special Envoy to South Africa, Cyrus Va

The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o

Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who had been in United Nations custody since 2000 and was awaiting trial on charges o

South African President F.W. de Klerk demotes two Cabinet ministers in charge of security, Magnus Malan and Adriaan Vlok, to de

A gale force southeaster wrenches the Antipolis loose from her anchor and the ship runs aground at Oudekraal. In the same sto

Harry Mashabela, reporter for the Star and Patrick Weech, sub-editor for the Rand Daily Mail, are arrested under Section 6 of t

Ms Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks, Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa since 22 June 2005, is born.

The government of President Obote of Uganda is overthrown for the second time and replaced by a military council under Gen. Tit

Anglo-Boer War 2: Steinaecker’s corps’ prisoners taken on 21-07-1901 at Bremersdorp by Boer General Tobias Smuts, are tried and

Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K

Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre

Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There

Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u

Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with

Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur

The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

Agreement is reached between the South African Police, ANC, SACP and COSATU on the principles outlined by a panel of experts on

Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator As Prisoner And President, Dies At 95 by Bill Keller (The New York Times), 5 December 2013

Document 103 - Programme of the National Liberation League of S.A. as Revised and Adopted at First Congress, Cape Town, March 1937

Document 16 - Joint Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All-African Convention and the African National Congress, 17 April 1949

Keynote Address to the IMBIZO ON GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER: ITS LEGACY AND LESSONS, Peninsula Technikon, 29 May 2004 BY Saleem Badat