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Pharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit. The
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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant who resisted several Graaff-Reinet magistrates over frontier policy and was elected
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Following a personal apology from President P.W. Botha to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher over the "blowpipe affa
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Violence in KwaZulu-Natal spills over into the streets of central Durban and running gun battles ensue.
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Ndebele (Matabele) King Lobengula accepts British protection and the British South Africa Company imposes protectorate over Nd
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The UN orders Libya to hand over two suspects linked to the Lockerbie bombing (Pan Am 103).
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In preparation for the Council’s taking-over, the Department of Coloured Relations replaces the responsibilities of the Departm
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South Africa is denied landing and over flying rights by the United Arab Republic as from this date.
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Passive Resister reports that over 300 Passive Resisters were serving sentences ranging from twenty days to six months.
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The Australian rugby team gains its biggest ever victory over SA by beating the Springboks 32-6 in Brisbane.
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Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat
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Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat
EventSADF takes over security of Northern Natal from the SAP to prevent infiltration into SA by Liberation Movements
The deteriorating state of security that marked the eighties convinced the Apartheid government that a revision of its approach to infiltration by the…
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Ernie Els clinches a record sixth World Match Play title with a 2&1 victory over Lee Westwood at Wentworth.Els celebrates h
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Two US surveillance planes arrive over Egyptian airspace to demonstrate increased US support for Egyptian and Sudanese security
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In Mozambique, twelve people are charged over a massive banking fraud, a case that was being investigated by murdered journalis
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Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15 commences. It contains banning powers over publications dee
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Ex-president Pierre Mendés-France resigns from the French Cabinet in disgust over the current crackdown in Algeria.
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President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt refuses to resume talks with Israel over the question of Palestinian autonomy.
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The Minister for Bantu Administration and Development hands over the symbols of authority to the Kwazulu Legislative Authority.
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Amy Johnson lands in Cape Town, beating the existing record flight time from London by over ten hours.
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Judge Anton Mostert, investigating exchange contraventions on instruction of the minister of finance, hands over evidence to th
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SA signs memorandum of agreement regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border bridge over the
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An Israeli fighter pilot shoots down a Libyan aircraft over the Sinai Desert. Seventy-four passengers and crewmembers die.
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France and Germany reach agreement over Morocco, with Germany recognising French special interests there in return for economic
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The conference of the Organisation of African Unity ends in Addis Ababa, divided over the Angolan civil war.
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Nigerian Army chief, General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, briefly takes power in a military coup. Over fifty government officials are
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Minister of Manpower and Public Works, Pietie du Plessis, resigns over a financial scandal involving his department and a compa
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Mohandas Ghandi finally reaches an agreement with the South African Union government over rights of Indian nationals (voluntary
BiographyReggie Williams
Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of racial segregation in South Africa. The…