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John Cranko, SA born ballet dancer and choreographer of the Ballet school of the Wurtemberg State Opera in Stuttgart, Germany,
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John Cranko, SA born ballet dancer and choreographer of the Ballet school of the Wurtemberg State Opera in Stuttgart, Germany,
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Hendrik Lodewyk (Hennie) Roux, Afrikaans cultural leader and co-founder of the Rapportryersbeweging, is born on the farm La Mot
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Christiaan Afrikaner, son of Jonker Afrikaner and Nama chief, is killed in battle at Otjimbingue, German West Africa. He wa
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Former Umkhonto We Sizwe member and senior foreign affairs ministry official, Robert McBride, who was held in Mozambique for si
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F.W. de Klerk is elected president of South Africa by the electoral college and is officially installed on 20 September.
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Archibald Lamont, minister of religion, politician and mayor of Durban from 1929-1932, is born in Port Babbabtyne, Bute Island,
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South Africa signs protocol on consultations between the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and the Ministry of Fore
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lieutenant-Colonel R.G. Kekewich arrives in Kimberley to assess the military situation and to advise the new
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President P.W. Botha visits Mozambique and in talks with President Joaquim Chissano, Botha pledges not to support RENAMO, to de
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Abraham Esau, Calvinian Coloured leader and martyr is born in Kenhardt, Cape Colony. He aided the British Imperial cause duri
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The government is empowered to set up a Publications Board, which would endeavour to present and uphold the Christian view of l
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Eleven rioting miners are shot by police and twenty-seven injured at the Western Deep Levels mine, Carletonville, in a confront
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In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria reply that Johannesburg is named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Ch
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The school order of Jacob Abraham (Uitenhage) de Mist eliminates the influence of the church on education and places education
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The Minister of Defence states that South Africa will provide bases and communication facilities to the maritime forces of West
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The Minister of Defence states that South Africa will provide bases and communication facilities to the maritime forces of West
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John Tengo Jabavu (62), newspaper editor and member of the board of the Fort Hare University, dies in Fort Hare.
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Johannes de Wet, lawyer, historian and leader in public affairs, also a fervent anti-convict agitator, is born in Cape Town.
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Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit
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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t
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Schalk Willem Botha, vice-president of the ZAR and later acting state president upon President Paul Kruger’s departure for Euro
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In a joint statement, Government and the PAC say they agreed on the urgent need for the establishment of a more representative
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National Union of Mineworkers’ leader Cyril Ramaphosa is awarded the Olof Palme prize for “courage and wisdom in the solidarity
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Further trouble erupts at a funeral in Soweto when a crowd of 4,000 attacks police. Retaliatory fire causes deaths and injuries
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SA signs an agreement with the League of The Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies regarding the establishment of a delegation i
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Rhodesia formally ends nearly ninety years of White minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
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Caswell Sipho Makama, advisor to the minister of public works and chair of Onderstepoort Biological products as well as directo
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Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, SA artist, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street and Jubilee Art
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