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Electricity is cut off in Tumahole township because of a municipal and rent boycott. (Collinger, J. (1990). “Black out as provi

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A revised National Statutory Council is released providing a forum for Blacks to discuss policy and assist in drawing up a new

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Eighty-three German war orphans arrive in Pretoria. The prime minister, Dr D.F. Malan and his wife adopt a girl.

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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights, is born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former

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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights, is born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former

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Margaret Mary Smith, artist and ichthyologist, dies in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. She illustrated the book of her husband, Prof

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Leaders of the Azanian People’s Organisation, the Socialist Party of Azania and the Black People’s Convention announce they wil

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Police have arrested a 39 year old Pretoria priest for conducting at least 600 fake marriages between foreigners and unsuspecti

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Rhodesian security police kill seven and wound one member of Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front. The fighting took place

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Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,

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William (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He died in 1986 in Dortmund, West G

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A.K. Ganyile, a Pondo leader and refugee in Basutoland is kidnapped with two companions by six South African policemen, taken a

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Nelson Mandela is discharged from Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital where he was treated for tuberculosis and transferred to a pri

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Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya after a coup d’état, deposing King Idris and exiling him to Egypt.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Piet Fourie, joined by Nieuwoudt and Kritzinger, take Ladybrand, OFS, in a street by street fight,

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Theophilus Shepstone, son of British Settlers and appointed by the British government as Diplomatic Agent to the Native Tribes

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Danie Theron captures a train and 30 soldiers at Klip Station, near the present-day Soweto.

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Sir John William Akerman, Natal businessman, politician and speaker of the Natal colonial parliament, is born in Plymouth, Engl

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Several thousand teachers march to the regional offices of the Department of Education and Training (DET) in Johannesburg, in o

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The Black community at Mogopa is displaced in a &quot;forced removal&quot; action. Some 300 homes and a cluster of community bu

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Cornelis Jacob van de Graaff assumes governorship at the Cape. Graaff-Reinet is named after him and his wife.

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Minister of Home Affairs Gene Louw announces that race classification for newborn babies and immigrants has ceased with immedia

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James Aubrey Polley (61), flamboyant former minister of the Methodist Church and anti-apartheid activist, dies. He was detained

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The Vatican issues a report, &quot;The Church and Racism&quot;, in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo

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South Africa’s acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir under direction of David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer win in the Best Traditiona

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A new SABC/Markinor survey released in Johannesburg discloses that nine out of ten South Africans have cited unemployment and j

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A powerful car bomb explodes outside a cafe in downtown Algiers, killing at least twenty people and wounding sixty others hours

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President Nelson Mandela holds meetings with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and later declares he will initiate a round of urgen

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Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d

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The Federal Republic of Germany has informed the Oslo-based World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with Sout