General South African History Timeline: 1980s
… People’s Friendship Award. Ruth First is killed by a letter bomb in Maputo. 1982 5 January, The forty-five … about 200 people. The Minister of Defence, General Magnus Malan, announces that a total of six districts, all on or … 1986 1 July, Identification Act No 72: Repealed the 1952 Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of …