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The Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured.
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The Black Students’ Movement (BSM) at Rhodes University and the Black Students Society (BSS) at the University of the Witwaters
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The Transitional Executive Council has its first meeting in Cape Town and adopts a resolution of the Multi-party Negotiating Co
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Up to 1 000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou
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State President Vorster opens the first emergency session of Parliament to be held in peacetime and promises action against any
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SA signs the following four agreements with the US: economic, technical and related assistance; the program of the Peace Corps
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Egypt breaks off relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen, all opponents of its peace moves with Israel.
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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, who was murdered on 19 November, is buried at his home v
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SA signs an agreement with the USA regarding co-operation in the development, building, installation and operation of an integr
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Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro and his wife Florence Barbara are gunned down in their courtyard. Policemen A.J.M. Joubert, P.J. Verster
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Representatives of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa), the National Council of Trade Unions (Nactu), and the Con
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A leader of the South West African People’s Union and former prisoner on Robben Island, Mr Immanuel Shifidi, is killed during v
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Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Cyprian Bhepezulu, and twelve Kraals occupied by his followers, are attacked by hostile Blacks fo
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The Joint Committee of the First and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly adopts a French-Mexican proposal, supported by In
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor
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Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland.
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Schalk Burger, flank forward AJ Venter, centre Gcobani Bobo and uncapped winger, Jongikhaya Nokwe are released to play for the
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Four White South Africans are killed and seventeen injured when armed APLA guerrillas storm into a golf club in King William’
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Miss Marjorie Courtney-Latimer and Prof. J.L.B. Smith of Rhodes University identify the first coelacanth after it had been thou
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The lengthy trial of nine Black nationalist student leaders ends. They are found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced t
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The first peace conference with Israel and her Arab neighbours opens in Geneva. Jordan, Israel, Egypt, the United States, the S
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Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco
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Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les
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Justice John Foxcroft rejects the plea for acquittal of Allan Boesak’s defence and postpones the case until the following year.
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Jongikaya Witbooi, Lumkile Maxiti and Agnes Maseti are shot dead at the home of a civic leader in Khayelitsha, Western Cape.
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The first rocket to be wholly developed and manufactured in South Africa is successfully launched from the new rocket launching
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Prof. Christian Gustav Waldemar Schumann, dean of the faculty for economy at the University of Stellenbosch and member of the h
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Daniël Petrus Goosen (53), member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Science and
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A secret exchange of letters between the leaders of France and Italy commits both countries to respect each other’s rights in N
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