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The Minister for Safety and Security imposes a moratorium on the release of crime statistics because of dissatisfaction with th

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Adriaan Vlok, former minister of Law and Order and Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner, tells the TRC former P

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Nigeria’s new military leader, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, announces plans for elections and a civilian president by May.

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The SA rugby team loses 11-15 against New Zealand in Christchurch.

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Hutu rebels attack Tutsi refugees at a camp in Burundi, killing some 320 people, mostly women and children.

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President Nelson Mandela pays his first state visit to a foreign country (Mozambique) as President of South Africa.

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SA signs agreement concerning the establishment of a Joint Permanent Commission for Co-operation with the government of Mozambi

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A South African team of ninety-five leaves for the Barcelona Olympics, the first in which the country has been allowed to parti

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Pepsi Mahlangu, returned exile, is shot and killed by an unknown gunman in KwaThema, PWV.

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South Africa, Angola and Cuba formally accept the principles of an Angola/Namibia peace plan. The three countries, in separate

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SA signs an agreement with the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros relating to the basic conditions governing the secondmen

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Some 6500 workers strike at Iscor’s Vanderbijlpark plant over management’s offer of a 34c-an-hour increase. The union is demand

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In reaction to further deaths of people in police detention, ten policemen have been suspended from duty and six have been char

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Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who was commemorated in many plant names, dies in Grahamstown.

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In more than seventy townships, a further series of disturbances (20 July – 19 August) occur, leading to considerable destruc

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The Minister of Coloured Affairs announces that the government has decided to appoint a judicial commission to investigate stud

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The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, makes a statement in the House of Commons on the question of arms for Sou

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The minister of mines announces that SA scientists under Drs A.J.A. Roux and W.L. Grant have developed a new method to enrich u

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SA signs a parcel post agreement with the Netherlands.

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Margaret van der Post, SA soprano, is born.

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The League of Nations agrees to award former German colonies as mandates: Tanganyika (which formed the greater part of the Germ

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WWI: Only three SA officers and 140 men march out of Delville Wood. Six days earlier, on moving in, the strength of the brigade

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Morocco grants France control of frontier police.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: President Kruger’s wife, Gezina, dies in Pretoria.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Paardekop, in the Gatsrand, near Vereeniging, General J.C. Smuts and a small party are surprised in their

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General C.J. Spruyt is killed in action while attempting to cross the railway line between Val Station a

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Gezina Kruger (70), wife of Pres. Paul Kruger, dies while he is in exile in Switzerland.

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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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Sekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.

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The Sudanese government is accused by human-rights group Amnesty International to be directly responsible for crimes against hu

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The Minister for Safety and Security imposes a moratorium on the release of crime statistics because of dissatisfaction with th

Adriaan Vlok, former minister of Law and Order and Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner, tells the TRC former P

Nigeria’s new military leader, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, announces plans for elections and a civilian president by May.

The SA rugby team loses 11-15 against New Zealand in Christchurch.

Hutu rebels attack Tutsi refugees at a camp in Burundi, killing some 320 people, mostly women and children.

President Nelson Mandela pays his first state visit to a foreign country (Mozambique) as President of South Africa.

SA signs agreement concerning the establishment of a Joint Permanent Commission for Co-operation with the government of Mozambi

A South African team of ninety-five leaves for the Barcelona Olympics, the first in which the country has been allowed to parti

Pepsi Mahlangu, returned exile, is shot and killed by an unknown gunman in KwaThema, PWV.

South Africa, Angola and Cuba formally accept the principles of an Angola/Namibia peace plan. The three countries, in separate

SA signs an agreement with the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros relating to the basic conditions governing the secondmen

Some 6500 workers strike at Iscor’s Vanderbijlpark plant over management’s offer of a 34c-an-hour increase. The union is demand

In reaction to further deaths of people in police detention, ten policemen have been suspended from duty and six have been char

Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who was commemorated in many plant names, dies in Grahamstown.

In more than seventy townships, a further series of disturbances (20 July – 19 August) occur, leading to considerable destruc

The Minister of Coloured Affairs announces that the government has decided to appoint a judicial commission to investigate stud

The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, makes a statement in the House of Commons on the question of arms for Sou

The minister of mines announces that SA scientists under Drs A.J.A. Roux and W.L. Grant have developed a new method to enrich u

SA signs a parcel post agreement with the Netherlands.

Margaret van der Post, SA soprano, is born.

The League of Nations agrees to award former German colonies as mandates: Tanganyika (which formed the greater part of the Germ

WWI: Only three SA officers and 140 men march out of Delville Wood. Six days earlier, on moving in, the strength of the brigade

Morocco grants France control of frontier police.

Anglo-Boer War 2: President Kruger’s wife, Gezina, dies in Pretoria.

Anglo-Boer War 2: At Paardekop, in the Gatsrand, near Vereeniging, General J.C. Smuts and a small party are surprised in their

Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General C.J. Spruyt is killed in action while attempting to cross the railway line between Val Station a

Gezina Kruger (70), wife of Pres. Paul Kruger, dies while he is in exile in Switzerland.

The Nieuwe Republiek, established in northern Natal on land awarded to burghers by Dinizulu, after helping him to conquer Zinhe

Sekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.

The Sudanese government is accused by human-rights group Amnesty International to be directly responsible for crimes against hu