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Chief Lennox Sebe, Chief Minister of the Ciskei, accepts independence in principle, and wins endorsement for his stand at a ral
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The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces at the National Party Congress incidences on the border of Zambia and the Caprivi S
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At least ten people are killed and thirty injured eleven seriously in a bus accident at Botha’s Hill north of Durban.
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Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, di
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President Bill Clinton of the US proclaims the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), naming thirty-four sub-Saharan African
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Coloured schools are re-opened as a result of parents and students having staged a re-occupation of the schools, closed since 6
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Fingoland and Indutywa are annexed to the Cape with Captain Matthew T. Blyth as first chief magistrate. The territory is called
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The second rugby test in Kimberley between South Africa and the British Isles ends in a tie, like the first one.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lieutenant Hannam and members of the Bushveld Carbineers, fighting on British side, fire on wagons with women
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lieutenant Hannam and members of the Bushveld Carbineers, fighting on British side, fire on wagons with women
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In his second progress report on the implementation of the United Nations 1989 Declaration on Apartheid and Its Destructive Con
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The House of Assembly defeats Prime Minister Hertzog’s motion of neutrality and adopts Smuts’ amendment in favour of joining th
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Sierra Leone’s president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah shakes hands with his rebel counterpart Gen Issa Sesay, and declares the West Afric
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The Rev. Dirk van der Hoff, pioneer minister of religion, designer of the ‘Transvaalse Vierkleur’ and friend of Commandant-Gene
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Soweto agrees to pay rent. (Wessels, E and Weinberg, S. (1990). “Soweto agrees to pay its rent – but power cuts loom weekly.
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The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, is damaged by a bomb blast and nineteen people are inj
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President Hastings Banda, president of Malawi, pays a state visit to South Africa (16-20 Aug.), meeting the State President and
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James Andrew Gray, SA journalist, newspaper proprietor and editor of the Pretoria News (1924-1932), is born in Scotland. He w
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Faced with an increasingly critical and protest media that support the democratisation of South Africa, the Minister of Home Af
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Elections to the House of Delegates among the Indian community are marked by a low poll, protests, boycotts and active oppositi
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Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signs an agreement in Cairo to expand Palestinian autonomy from Gaza to the We
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At a four-day Conference on "Anatomy of Hate", organised in Oslo by the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and the N
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Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Albanian-born missionary dedicated to the care of the poor and sick, particularly in Ind
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Retired Royal Navy officer, Lieutenant Francis Farewell of Cape Town, hoists the Union Jack at Port Natal and takes possession
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Segoati Mahlangu for the agriculture department said reports that the mass culling of 13 thousand ostriches and chickens has be
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin wrap up a two-day summit in Alexandria with the return
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Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964.
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Catherine Manana Mabuza, MEC in the Office of the Premier, Northern Province Provincial Government and chair of the ANC Women’s
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John Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist and founder member of Artists under the Sun, is born in Dikonana, Zeerust, Western Transvaal.
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