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The Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, first missionary in Southern Africa and first martyr of the Christian faith, is murdered in t
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In a radio and television interview, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, sets out the principles on which he is leading the government t
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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph
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The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w
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Seven street children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri
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ANC president Oliver Tambo and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in twenty-eight years in Sweden.
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Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been
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Dr Gideon Roos, former director-general of the SABC and founder member of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), dies
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The Weekly Mail reports that, since the beginning of February 1990, thirty people have died in Bophuthatswana. Violence and sch
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President Paul Kruger urges closer union of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. A treaty of alliance follows.
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Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra
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The borders of the Afrikaner ‘volkstaat’ and the territory’s constitution is unveiled at an open session of the Afrikaner Volks
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Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
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It is announced at a Convention (2-3 March) that the United Democratic Front is to end its activities and will formally disband
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John Brebier, Presbyterian minister and a founder of the educational system in the Orange Free State, is born in Spurriemuir in
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The Sowetan reports that Amos Boshomane, a shop steward of the Steel, Engineering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa, wa
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Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is welcomed in Guinea who grants him a honourable asylum af
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Two pilots of the SA Air Force’s Cheetah Squadron, Lieutenant D.A. Ruiter and Captain W.J.J. Badenhorst, are killed in action w
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Pilots Doug McKellar and "Dizzy" Deans of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the UN in the
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Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been
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Bertie van Zyl (72), biggest tomato farmer in the world and owner of tomato farm ZZ2, dies in a Pretoria hospital.
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F.W. de Klerk, Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs, is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal National Party.
EventUWC students convene a meeting to express solidarity with the students of Soweto and decide to embark on a boycott of classes
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A Learner Resource on the art of Peter Clarke by Emile Maurice and Rebecca Dodd Compiled by the Heritage Agency CC
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Opening address and political report of ANC President Thabo Mbeki by ANC, 16 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
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A life’s work: Harriet Bolton and Durban’s trade unions, 1944 - 1974 by Hannah Keal, December 2009, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
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Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, is born in Durban. He was appointed archbishop of Cape T
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Chief Mhlontlo (Mhlonthlo) lures Hamilton Hope (resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape) and his staff to Sulenkama wh
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South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W
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