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John Wiley, the leader of the South African Party (SAP), announces that his party is to disband. SAP representatives will retai

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Cabinet decides to replace the SAAF trainer Harvards by the Swiss-made Pilatus PC-7 MK2. The joint venture will include twelve

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News 24 announces that Chiliboy Ralepelle (real first name Mahlatse)will become the first Black player to lead the Springbok ru

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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says he will not surrender two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotl

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India announces that a preliminary conference will be held on 6 February 1950 in Cape Town to discuss the procedure of the prop

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The Minister of Community Development relaxes the Group Areas Act permit system and announces that Blacks will in future be adm

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South African police open fire on Black rioters, killing fourteen and wounding thirty-nine, after a beer-hall brawl got out of

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South Africa will be rejoining the Formula One Grand Prix circuit within three years according to Formula One boss Bernie Eccle

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It is announced that Colonel Hoare, the leader of the attempted Seychelles coup, will shortly be eligible for release from pris

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Percy Fisher, miner and unionist born in 1891 in Durham, England, is found dead inside Central Hall of Fordsburg with a bullet

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Chief Lucas Mangope is deposed as leader of Bophuthatswana. Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as the territory’s new adminis

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch

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Iran breaks off diplomatic, political, economic and military ties with South Africa, and will no longer supply oil to this coun

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The Minister of Justice announces that detainees held under security laws will soon be allowed to have monthly visits from doct

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Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo

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A total of 21 000 driving licences will have to be cancelled after a former Limpopo traffic officer, M.S. Pela, appears in cour

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The body of seventeen year old stowaway, Samuel Benjamin, found in the wheel-well of a British Airways aircraft in Los Angeles

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The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to

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At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i

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Prime Minister Botha announces that general elections to the House of Assembly and the Provincial Councils will be held on 29 A

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Part of District Six is proclaimed as a White group area. New Coloured residential areas will be established on the Cape Flat

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Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a

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Figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197

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The prime minister states in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that the United Nations general-secretary, Dr. Waldheim, will b

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asks Pretoria to clarify its position on amnesty, as well as on any o

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’Die Stem van Suid-Afrika’ (The Call of South Africa) is unanimously accepted as only official anthem in Parliament. The Englis

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Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o

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Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well

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IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February. The party gives an ultimatum that it will boycott the Constituent

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The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc

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John Wiley, the leader of the South African Party (SAP), announces that his party is to disband. SAP representatives will retai

Cabinet decides to replace the SAAF trainer Harvards by the Swiss-made Pilatus PC-7 MK2. The joint venture will include twelve

News 24 announces that Chiliboy Ralepelle (real first name Mahlatse)will become the first Black player to lead the Springbok ru

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says he will not surrender two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotl

India announces that a preliminary conference will be held on 6 February 1950 in Cape Town to discuss the procedure of the prop

The Minister of Community Development relaxes the Group Areas Act permit system and announces that Blacks will in future be adm

South African police open fire on Black rioters, killing fourteen and wounding thirty-nine, after a beer-hall brawl got out of

South Africa will be rejoining the Formula One Grand Prix circuit within three years according to Formula One boss Bernie Eccle

It is announced that Colonel Hoare, the leader of the attempted Seychelles coup, will shortly be eligible for release from pris

Percy Fisher, miner and unionist born in 1891 in Durham, England, is found dead inside Central Hall of Fordsburg with a bullet

Chief Lucas Mangope is deposed as leader of Bophuthatswana. Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as the territory’s new adminis

Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch

Iran breaks off diplomatic, political, economic and military ties with South Africa, and will no longer supply oil to this coun

The Minister of Justice announces that detainees held under security laws will soon be allowed to have monthly visits from doct

Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo

A total of 21 000 driving licences will have to be cancelled after a former Limpopo traffic officer, M.S. Pela, appears in cour

The body of seventeen year old stowaway, Samuel Benjamin, found in the wheel-well of a British Airways aircraft in Los Angeles

The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to

At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i

Prime Minister Botha announces that general elections to the House of Assembly and the Provincial Councils will be held on 29 A

Part of District Six is proclaimed as a White group area. New Coloured residential areas will be established on the Cape Flat

Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a

Figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197

The prime minister states in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that the United Nations general-secretary, Dr. Waldheim, will b

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asks Pretoria to clarify its position on amnesty, as well as on any o

’Die Stem van Suid-Afrika’ (The Call of South Africa) is unanimously accepted as only official anthem in Parliament. The Englis

Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o

Dr James Walton, retired Managing Director of the publishing house of Longman, Southern Africa, dies in Cape Town. He was well

IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February. The party gives an ultimatum that it will boycott the Constituent

The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc