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UWC students convene a meeting to express solidarity with the students of Soweto and decide to embark on a boycott of classes.
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Charles Bowyer Adderley, firm adversary to the proposal of the British Colonial ministry to establish a penal colony at the Cap
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Hundreds of KwaNdebele women flee their homes to seek legal assistance to stop the tribal authority from assaulting or arrestin
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Germany rejects Britain’s call to effectively double aid for some of the world’s poorest countries, an adviser to Chancellor Ge
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Simon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to advise the dissatisfied burghers on how to be
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Anglo-Boer War 2: “In a letter to St John Broderick, Secretary of War, Lord Kitchener declares, ‘It was a mistake to regard t
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The Swaziland government welcomes South Africa’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claim
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The UN Security Council passes a resolution threatening to punish Sudan if it fails to halt atrocities in Darfur within thirty
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse again writes to Broderick asking for reasons for the War Department’s refusal to include her i
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UN Security Council adopts resolution 282 (1970) calling on States to take a series of measures to strengthen the arms embargo
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The Commonwealth decides to change the venue of the next meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers from New Zealand to Bahamas
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The Nieuwe Republiek, established in northern Natal on land awarded to burghers by Dinizulu, after helping him to conquer Zinhe
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The SA government transfers R2bn to the Independent Development Trust to ‘overcome the backlog in the socio-economic developmen
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The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal
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Dr. Verwoerd announces that the government has decided to withdraw from the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) owing to the h
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Liberia’s President Samuel Doe appeals for international help to end a rebel invasion and promises not to seek re-election in a
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Revised figures for the Defence Budget indicate the funds available to the South African Defence Force have been increased to R
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Tumi Seboka, regional land claims commissioner, says South Africa is prepared to increase seizures of White-owned land to fulfi
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US President George Bush authorises the Export-Import Bank to underwrite US exports to South Africa, officially ending a ban th
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha decides to invite leaders of the Black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a ‘statement of intent’
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The Prime Minister states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978.
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US President Bill Clinton, on a visit to Rwanda, acknowledges that the United States and the world failed to protect Rwandans f
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Fifteen English cricket players are prohibited to play for three years in England, because of their rebel tour to SA.
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Mahatma Gandhi sends a telegram to Field Marshal Smuts asking him to withdraw the Asiatic Bill. He also issues a press statemen
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Chief Matanzima calls upon the South African government to grant full independence to the Transkei within five years. The prime
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Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been
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The government gives official notice that it has refused to allow the Herstigte Nasionale Party to be registered as a political
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Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been
EventUWC students convene a meeting to express solidarity with the students of Soweto and decide to embark on a boycott of classes
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