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Balancing bundles of food and clothing on their heads, Rwandan refugees who previously refused to return home begin re-entering
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The United Nations Security Council reaffirms the mandatory arms embargo, and, for the first time requests that all states refr
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A Zeerust family, Dr François Barnard, his wife and two sons are killed when their Piper Saratoga crashes during a storm near
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Three anti-apartheid activists still in the British Consulate in Durban leave the building. A. Gumede and one other are immedia
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The interim state Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, created on 1 June 1979, returns to colonial status and becomes the colony of Zimbabwe-Rhod
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Dr Sydney Arnold Skaife, founder member of the Cape Nature Conservation Association and author under the name of Hendrik Brand,
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A press release states that during this year losses totalling over R20 million were incurred through collisions, wrecks and sin
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The first of the ‘Bantustans’ comes into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel, opens
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Lt.-Col. James Stevenson-Hamilton (Skukuza) (90), British soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist
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Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, Venda (now Limpopo). He was guest speake
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Troops open fire on a truckload of Somalis who barrel through a French checkpoint, killing two and injuring seven in the first
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Sytze Wopkes Wierda (72), architect of several bridges and designer of the Paardekraal monument at Krugersdorp, is born in Sea
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The first Nobel prizes are awarded. Several South Africans, inter alia, Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela and W.A. de Klerk were
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Labour Input to the Presidential Job Summit presented on behalf of COSATU, FEDUSA and NACTU by John Gomomo, COSATU President
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After a meeting between the Prime Minister John Vorster, with his Minister of Bantu Administration, and seven of the eight ‘hom
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In Egypt, the German Afrika Korps and Italian forces under Rommel begin a retreat westwards after a renewed campaign by the all
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The government announces a plan to allow White and Black businessmen to form partnerships as part of a strategy to draw Blacks
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Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.
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Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police
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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial b
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At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants
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SA’s new constitution is enacted by parliament, signalling the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa.
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Four Black newspapers, Post Transvaal, Saturday Post, Sunday Post and the Sowetan, are banned on a technicality on the same day
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The Secretary-General submitted a report to the Security Council on the efforts to establish peace and to promote multi-party n
Press statement issued by the National Union of Namibian Workers [and] the Congress of South African Trade Unions, 6 April 1989
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SA signs agreement with the Republic of China concerning the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion
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Prof. Johan Heyns, moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and participant in a panel discussion filmed by an American tel
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In response to a question in parliament, the minister of education and development aid, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, said that 917 school
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Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says more than seventeen million people were arrested under influx control laws between
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