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Dr Werner W.M. Eiselen, co-founder of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra) and promoter of the concept of separat

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About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, march to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African involvemen

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The South African Parliament votes to amend the Internal Security Act No. 74 of 1982. Police will in future need the permission

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South African White extremist Eugene Terre’Blanche is sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder a Black man and assau

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Kenyan Wangari Maathai receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. She is the first African woman to receive the prize. Prof. Maath

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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela says he and President FW de Klerk are bound by the Nobel Peace Prize they accep

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Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, the first Black African to win the Nobel Peace Prize, collects his prize for 1960 in Oslo, Norway.

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President Thabo Mbeki is consulting with west African leaders ahead of an emergency trip to Ivory Coast to settle the latest un

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South African Airways (SAA) announces that it will not fly to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) due to disturbances in the c

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The Star reports Nicky Bojé, who had been appointed vice-captain for the South African cricket team for the two-Test tou

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The first elections to the South African Indian Council are held. Of the SAIC’s forty-five members, forty are up for election,

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News 24 reports that South African actor Antony Coleman has won the award for best actor in a feature film for his performance

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At its first legal congress in four decades, the South African Communist Party (SACP) decide to appoint Mr. Chris Hani as its n

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The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in

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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu

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A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy

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The first public rally of the new South African Black Alliance (SABA) is held under the leadership of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi in

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Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C

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In response to a car bomb attack in Pretoria which killed nineteen people, the South African air force bombs ANC bases in a Map

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Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African

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The South African Government says it is ready to implement the United Nations plan for the independence of Namibia as set out i

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The South African Indian Council Bill, dealing with the affairs of the Indian Population, is passed with the support of the Opp

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The South African Defence Force has taken over from the police the security of Northern Natal since the area is becoming a thir

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The first part of the South African Press Commission’s first report is tabled in parliament by the minister of the interior, Ja

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US President Bush announces an initiative to spend $15bn over five years for Aids treatment and prevention in twelve African co

The minutes of for the meeting where the South African team to participate in the Olympic Games in 1908 was decided on

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De Villiers Bester Lamprecht, the first South African to complete the mile in less than four minutes, is born in Prince Albert.

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According to reports from Angola, the strategic town of Cuito Cuanavale is about to fall to an onslaught by South African and U

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The South African government informs the United Nations Secretary-General that it is unable to agree to a visit by the group of

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A White family is killed in their caravan whilst camping on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei. Forty African