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The military government in the Transkei lifts the state of emergency and banning orders on fifteen organisations in the territo
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Dr C.P. Mulder resigns as Minister of Plural Relations and Development on instruction of the prime minister because of irregula
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The French Ministry of Defence will no longer permit delivery of two escort vessels (corvettes) and two submarines under constr
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A meeting convened by Chief Lucas Mangope, Chief Minister of Bophuthatswana, held in Umtata in camera and attended by eight ‘ho
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Anglo-Boer War 2: From his conning tower in the besieged Kimberley Colonel Kekewich sees a “living mass” of men approaching and
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Professor Johan Heyns, influential church leader and former moderator of the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church, is mur
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Ntuzuma Thami Zondi, ANC member, and ANC Civic worker, Mr Nene, are killed in hit squad action in Ntuzuma, Natal.
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More than forty African heads of state and government, including President Thabo Mbeki, meet with the Chinese top leadership in
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Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, dies
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The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te
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Heavy fighting breaks out in Luanda, Angola, between the government and Unita. The conflict rages for three days, claiming at l
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Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and troops push on towards the Suez canal, just twenty miles away. Israeli paratroopers drop
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Israeli troops invade Sinai Peninsula, later to be joined by British and French forces, following Egypt’s seizure of the Suez C
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Gen. Constand Laubscher Viljoen, former head of the SADF and leader of the Vryheidsfront, is born in Standerton, Eastern Transv
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Fourteen people die when a group of over 100 armed men, allegedly IFP members, attack residents, vehicles and houses in Gcilima
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Anglo-Boer War 2: English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse is placed under arrest aboard the Avondale Castle, in terms
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Supporters of Ivory Coast’s president-elect and his political rival fight bloody clashes in Abidjan over a demand for new presi
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The South African Indian Council requests the Prime Minister to reverse the Cabinet’s decision not to return Pageview and Distr
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The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid decides to issue an appeal to member states and organisations
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Bishop Hamilton Mvumelwano, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and President of the SA Council of Chur
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Gideon Roos, SA actor, broadcaster and co-founder of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), is born in Worcester, CC.
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The scheme decided on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem
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The scheme decided on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem
ArchiveThe crucual question of Black/White power-sharing needs to be tabled and the State President has avoided doing so...
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Some Observations on the South African Literary Tradition and the case of Nadine Gordimer: A Dissident´ s View by Dr Selim Y Gool
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10 things you didn’t know about ‘Mandela’s’ Robben Island by Christine Mungai (Mail and Guardian), 17 March 2015, South Africa
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Dr Ludwig Wybren (Louis) Hiemstra (81), language advisor of the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa and co-author of the
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Johannes Jacobus Fagan, SA composer, commits suicide in London because of worsening health problems and the death of his young
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Anglo-Boer War 2: J.P. Coetzee, Cape rebel, is executed by the British and all male adults are ordered to attend.
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