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… The bitter debate over the power of central government in relation to the provinces is reopened when the Constitutional Court r …

… The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Consolidation of the ‘Homelands’, Hennie van der Walt, speaking at the National …

… The SA government transfers R2bn to the Independent Development Trust to ‘overcome the backlog in the socio-economic developmen …

… The SA rugby team loses the third test against the British Isles 16-21 in Newlands, but wins the series 2-1. …

… The first recorded appearance of Halley’s Comet in the southern hemisphere is entered in the diary of the Cape governor. …

… The Natal Congress of the National Party unanimously approved a call by the party leadership to "make membership of the Na …

… Smallpox epidemic strikes the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The disease wreaks …

… The Sudanese government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, the main rebel group involved in the country’s 19-year-old c …

… Janssens, governor of the Cape, capitulates with the last of the defending force, after which the second British …

… The Chairman of the Venda Council for National Unity, Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana, announces the lifting of the state of emergen …

… The ANC (266 seats) wins the second democratic election.   The Democratic Party (38 seats) is the new official opposition, fo …

… The Anglican church joins the growing confrontation between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. W …

… The Meadowlands Tswana School Board meets with the local inspector of the Bantu Education Department to discuss the conflict th …

… The bitter debate over the power of central government in relation to the provinces is reopened when the Constitutional Court r …

… Statement of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Parliament of the Republic of Ireland 2 July 1990 …

… A two-day conference of the Congress of the People, sponsored by the Congress Alliance, a united front against the National Par …

… In the face of widespread protest the Prime Minister announces that provisions in the Advocate General Bill preventing the pres …

… At a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the ANC President, Oliver Tambo, d …

… The arrest of five people, detained under the Terrorism Act, coincides with the Security Police search of the Johannesburg head …

… SA signs agreement with the UN and the Commission of the European Union concerning the legal status, privileges …

… The military government in the Transkei lifts the state of emergency and banning orders on fifteen organisations in the territo …

… The British flag is officially hoisted in the diggers camps after the annexation of the Griqua territory ten days earlier. …

… The British parliament adopts the Balfour Declaration signed by delegates the previous day.  This paves the way to self-govern …

… Justice Reinhold Gregorowski (66), the judge who delivered the death sentence on four members of the Reform Committee after the …

… The Rev. Johannes Henoch Neethling, co-founder of the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, later the Paul Roos Gymnasium, and also the “Stel …

… The Black Students’ Movement (BSM) at Rhodes University and the Black Students Society (BSS) at the University of the Witwaters …

… The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 44(I), expressing the opinion that the treatment of Indians in Sou …

… SA signs the following four agreements with the US: economic, technical and related assistance; the program of the Peace Corps …

… The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France with them on the ship. …

… The General Assembly terminated the mandate of the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petrol …