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Cosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… curb the growing union movement and undermine gains made by workers since the 1970s. Cosatu's call led to the largest …
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Independent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… Democrats (ID), a political party which was formed by Patricia de Lille, who had defected from the Pan …
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Recognition of the Customary Marriages Act comes into effect
… Act 120 of 1998 came into effect after an investigation by the South African Law Reform Commission of the legal …
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United Nations World Summit starts
… for world leaders. It tackled challenges brought about by issues ranging from disarmament and militarisation of …
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Nelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday
… announced at his birthday celebration, which was attended by 2,000 international guests. …
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United Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… goals. After ten years in office, Annan will be succeeded by South Korea's Ban Ki-moon on 1 January 2007. …
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MK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… forced to yield to their demands, which were investigated by proper structures. He also berated the soldiers for lack …
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NUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 when he was banned by the government only a month before Senator Kennedy's …
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SAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… against Nationalist guerrillas. This follows an attempt by several hundred guerrillas to invade South and South West …
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Names of 303 banned people are published
… The strict security legislation aroused huge protests. By the end of 1964, 671 persons had been charged with …
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Soweto: urban politics, poverty and race in apartheid society
… in which these are created, (or fail to be created) by the urban poor, with the manner in which they, as …
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The United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar is renamed United Republic of Tanzania
… Sikelel’iAfrica” (God Bless Africa) which was composed by South Africa’s Enoch Sontonga. In 1992, Tanzania (as it is …
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International Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… policies. At one stage South African goods were boycotted by some western countries and in 1960 African countries …
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Union leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… to seize control of Alexandra, render it ungovernable by the state, forming people’s courts, and acting as the …
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SACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs
… came a few months after the SACC was constituted in 1968. By then the National Party had been governing the country for …
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Judge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
… Cameron has stated that his disclosure was inspired by the case of Gugu Dlamini, a woman who was stoned and …
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SA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… On 21 March 1990, Namibia was granted its independence by South Africa. …
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Professor Roland Levinsky, world leading researcher in biomedicine dies
… his dog near his home when a power cable that had been hit by lightning fell and came into contact with him. He was …
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Samora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… of the victims of the Matola raid in Mozambique killed by South African security forces. The victims were Lancelot …
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Sir de Villiers Graaff and Theo Gerdener jointly express their agreement to form a new party
… Federal Party. It is not clear whether this was prompted by the declaration between the two organisations. On 5 …
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Springbok rugby player, Schalk Burger is born in Port Elizabeth
… SA Rugby Player of the Year award. Schalk has been plagued by injuries and illness. In 2013 it was reported that he …
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Zola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… continue with the race. The crowd expressed their anger by booing Budd, who continued on to finish seventh. Budd …
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Afrikaner patriot Danie Theron is killed
… At the conclusion of Theron’s case his fine was paid by his supporters in the courtroom. Danie Theron was born in …
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Levy Mwanawasa, third President of Zambia dies in Paris , France.
… 2001 when he was elected as the presidential candidate by the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) for the 2001 …
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Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… of Shaka and The White Monday Disaster based on text by the poet Stephen Gray. …
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Shaba War in Zaire comes to an end
… plans to seize Mobutu were thwarted when he was rescued by French troops on both of the Shaba incursions. …
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Helen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… a position she maintained until 2015 when she was replaced by Mmusi Maimane . She is married to Professor John Maree and …
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South Africa readmitted to United Nations
… Nations (UN) recalled resolution 48/258 A and adopted by consensus an invitation to SA to resume its participation … Commission Welcomes the Adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty by the United Nations General Assembly [online] Available at: …
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Afrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape in the 17th century. …
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Dr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies
… master the Xhosa and Khoi Khoi languages. Not dissuaded by the disapproval received from Whites, he laboured among …
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