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Stellenbosch University announces that it is to open its doors to Black, Coloured and Asian students for all post-graduate degr
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The Star reports, after interviews with ANC leaders, that the ANC plans to increase military action to raise the sagging Black
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The provincial synod of the Anglican Church passes a resolution to discourage the singing of ‘Die Stem’ and to use ‘Nkosi Sikel
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Gov. Simon van der Stel sends Isak Schrijver with fifteen soldiers and three mineworkers to the north to look for copper.
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The State President amended the emergency regulations to allow the minister of law and order to restrict the activities of orga
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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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The Griqua people gather in Philippolis (25-27 March) to celebrate with the theme “Griqua return to your heritage”. (News Bulle
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The African National Congress (ANC) leads a march through central Durban, attended by up to 100,000 people, to demand their vot
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As far as known Henry D. Warden makes the first reference to Bloemfontein when he writes to the governor about a farm between P
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Responding to the British Labour government’s re-imposition of an embargo on arms sales to South Africa, John Vorster tells Bri
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The South African government announces that self-governing status is to be granted to the Caprivi region of South West Africa (
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About 10 000 people march to the president’s office in Thohoyandou, carrying a human skull believed to be that of a ritual murd
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A court in Pretoria sentences nine Blacks to terms of imprisonment from five to seven years on charges of training as guerrilla
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Six Front Line States meet in Maputo and decide to coordinate further their military and economic policies to counter South Afr
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SA sends troops to Ciskei to suppress mob attacks on factories and shops after military coup under Brigadier Gqozo ousted autho
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Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation
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Transworld Oil Shipping, a major supplier of oil to South Africa, ends all oil shipments to the country because of the "ec
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The Freedom Alliance is formed. It seeks to gain concession on federalism from the ANC and to displace the National Party.
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Up to this date the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights has awarded land to 115 194 beneficiaries and financial compensati
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Eight Black South Africans walk out of a New York conference on SA in protest against Pretoria’s refusal to issue passports to
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A march in which thousands of people take part to protest against councillors, leads to violence in the Vaal Triangle. The marc
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The number of people who discovered they were fraudulently married has risen to 779, according to the department of home affair
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Three men accused of plotting to kidnap African National Congress leaders in London and then flying them to South Africa claim
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South Africa was told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection or face sanctions by the International Ato
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The United Nations General Assembly’s Political Committee decides to grant observer status to the ANC and the PAC. The South Af
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A seven-man delegation of Coloured leaders flies from Cape Town to Pretoria to meet the Prime Minister for discussions on the f
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Pakistan hands over to Kenya a suspect, who reportedly, confessed to involvement in the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi ei
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Carlos the Jackal, freelance terrorist, is arrested in Sudan and flown to Paris for trial. He is eventually sentenced to life i
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Pakistan hands over to Kenya a suspect, who reportedly, confessed to involvement in the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi ei
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