This Week In History – 02 Octoberr

02 October 1869 - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi [ Mahatma Gandhi ], political leader, pioneer of non-violent activism and founder of the Natal Indian Congress, is born in Porbandar, Kathiawad, India.

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02 October 1885 - Abraham Makgothi Moletsane (Molitsane, Makhothi), chief of the Taung born about 1788, dies in Makwais (Maboloka) Mountain near Mafeteng, Basutoland (Lesotho).

02 October 1901 - Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell, SA landscape painter and poet, dies.

02 October 1906 - James Cameron (75), SA educationist and minister of religion, dies in Bournemouth England.

02 October 1910 - Hymne Weiss, SA author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, is born in Rouxville, OFS.

02 October 1916 - Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and politician, is born in Maseru, Basutholand (Lesotho).

02 October 1925 - Die Volksblad, Afrikaans newspaper, is published in Bloemfontein for the first time.

02 October 1963 - Kuwait breaks off diplomatic relations with South Africa and all Kuwaiti air and seaports are closed to South African aircraft and vessels. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1975 - Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces in Umtata that the Transkei will become fully independent on 26 October 1976. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1978 - The Transkei will resist the government's plan for a mass removal of nearly 20,000 blacks from the Crossroads settlement near Cape Town, to a settlement centre on land due to be incorporated into Transkei. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1979 - The South African Barbarians rugby team completes its controversial tour of Britain with minimal disruption but against a background of condemnation from African and Commonwealth countries. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1980 - The Prime Minister appoints fifty-six members to the President's Council, comprising forty-one Whites, seven Coloureds, seven Indians, and one Chinese.

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02 October 1981 - KwaZulu: Police Amendment Act No 11 commences. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1984 - The death toll in rioting and clashes with police has risen to over sixty. The Government took the leader of South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid group into custody. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1986 - The US institutes sanctions against SA.

02 October 1990 - Political assassination: Nic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which had been started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement, is killed when he opens a parcel containing a computer, which exploded.

02 October 1990 - Political assassination: Three guards of an ANC lawyer is shot dead by eight men in Durban.

02 October 1991 - SA signs an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees governing the legal status, privileges and immunities of the UNHCR office and its personnel in South Africa. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1991 - Netherlands announced partial lifting of sports sanctions; SA sportspersons will no longer require visas. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

02 October 1991 - SA Foreign Minister, R. F. Botha, visits Beijing.

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02 October 1995 - Muziwendoda Mdluli of the National Intelligence Agency, is found shot dead in his car in Silverton, Pretoria. He was investigating the possible involvement of fellow-agents in the failed Comoros Islands coup.

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02 October 1998 - Britain announces a decision to write off the debt of six Africa countries - package of millions of pounds.

02 October 1998 - Januz Waluz, convicted murderer of Chris Hani who was leader of the SA Communist Party, is divorced from his wife of twenty-two years.

02 October 1999 - Sarel Hayward, former SA minister of agriculture, dies.

03 October 1823 - Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist (74), commissioner-general at the Cape, dies in Middenburg, the Netherlands.

03 October 1843 - Potgieter notifies the British that his territory, west of the Drakensberg would remain independent, after the annexation of the territory east of the Drakensberg - Both territories formed part of the Republic of Natalia.

03 October 1844 - Sir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor, known as 'Mosquito Manson' from his pioneer work with Sir Ronald Ross in malaria research and the first to argue that the mosquito is host to the malaria parasite is born in Aberdeenshire. His research led to a big improvement of health in SA. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/oct03.htm

03 October 1855 - The St George's Anglican Church in Knysna, the first to be built in the town and now a national monument, is consecrated by Bishop Robert Gray.

03 October 1899 - Anglo-Boer War 2: The British War Office informs the White colonies that they can contribute volunteers, preferably infantry.

03 October 1903 - Gerrit Besselaar, cultural leader and Afrikaans author, arrives in Cape Town from the Netherlands and leaves for Bloemfontein to accept a post at Grey College.

03 October 1904 - Indigenous races in German South-West Africa rise against German troops.

03 October 1910 - Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, is born in Wellington, CP.

03 October 1934 - Harold (Ralph) Henning, SA golf player, is born in Johannesburg.

03 October 1973 - Prime Minister Vorster indicates that there is nothing to prevent employers taking the necessary steps to bring about improvements in the productive use of black labour. The government will not obstruct changes in the country's traditional work patterns. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

03 October 1974 - The SA Davis Cup tennis team, Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan and Ray mordt, beats Italy 4-1 in Ellispark.

03 October 1977 - M.C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that he will not stand for re-election and will resign as Minister in November 1977. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

03 October 1978 - At the end of a ten-day inquest, LA. Coetzee, Deputy Chief Magistrate of Port Elizabeth, rules that no one is to blame for the death of L. Tabalaza who died after falling from the fifth floor of the Port Elizabeth Security Police headquarters on 10 July 1978. Mr. Tabalaza was not a detainee under the Terrorism Act, nevertheless a high level police inquiry had been ordered into his death. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

03 October 1979: The results of four Parliamentary by-elections show a decided swing to the Herstigte Nasionale Party and low percentage polls. The National Party retains its seats, but by very reduced majorities.

03 October 1980 - The leader of the New Republic Party, Vause Raw, states that his party is prepared to give the President's Council a chance as a start on the road to a negotiated future. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

03 October 1984 - A cease-fire agreement between the Mozambique Government and the insurgent National Resistance Movement (MNR) was announced in Pretoria by South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha, who actedas the intermediary. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

03 October 1986 - Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, dies in Pretoria.

03 October 1991 - The European Community issues a communiqué expressing concern at "the continued detention of political prisoners in the so-called independent homelands" and calling for the release of all South African political prisoners without delay . http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

03 October 1991 - South African writer Nadine Gordimer wins the Nobel Prize for literature.

03 October 1994 - SA signs agreements with the government of the US on missile-related export/import restrictions and with the UN Development Programme on Standard Basic Assistance plus exchange of notes. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

03 October 1998 - The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the home game, the first qualifying game for the African Nations Cup later in Zimbabwe, against Angola 1-0.

03 October 1999 - The SA rugby team wins its first match in the World Cup tournament against Scotland in Edinburgh 46-29.

04 October 1836 - Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronjé, politician and military leader in the ZAR and general during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in Colesberg.

04 October 1871 - Sarel Arnoldus Celliers (70), Voortrekker leader, dies near Lindley, OFS.

04 October 1875 - Gustav Preller, champion of Afrikaans, educationist and writer, is born in Pretoria.

04 October 1876 - Hermann Böhle, SA electro-technical engineer and first professor in electro-technics at the South African College in Cape Town, is born in Germany

04 October 1886 - Randjieslaagte on the Rand is proclaimed as public gold diggings.

04 October 1910 - Dr Anthony Edward (Anton) Rupert, industrial chemist and SA business entrepreneur and magnate, is born in Graaff-Reinet.

04 October 1910 - Dr Etienne Rousseau, founder of Federale Volksbeleggings in SA, is born.

04 October 1929 - The Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated.

04 October 1934 - Basil D'Oliviera, English cricket player who was denied entry into SA because he was a Coloured, is born in Cape Town.

04 October 1957 - Jacob Hendrik Pierneef, SA landscape painter, dies in Pretoria.

04 October 1961 - Separate elections for the four Cape Coloured representative seats are held. They are won by Independents with the United Party support. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

04 October 1966 - Lesotho, formerly the British colony of Basutoland, achieves its independence and becomes a member of the Commonwealth. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/oct04.htm

04 October 1971 - Chief Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, warns that violent confrontation between blacks and whites will be an inevitable consequence of apartheid. Mr Vorster responds with restraint, in the interest of friendship. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

04 October 1974 - Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet and twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns

04 October 1990 - Political assassination: Selby Ngedane, PAC member, is gunned down outside his home in Umtata.

04 October 1992 - The Mozambique government and RENAMO rebel leaders signed an historic peace accord, and a cease-fire to end the 16-year civil war in the southeast African nation.

04 October 1995 - Identification Amendment Act No 47, amending the 1986 Identification Act so as to repeal certain obsolete provisions, and ordering, with retrospective effect, that a new population register be compiled and maintained, commences. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

04 October 1996 - Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade' by Kick Off for his fight for players' rights, makes his debut for Cape Town Spurs as a sub in the match versus Bob Save Super Bowl.

04 October 1996 - Shahid Afridi, sixteen-year-old soccer player of Pakistan, scores the fastest one hundred in one day cricket from just 37 balls against Sri Lanka in Nairobi, Kenia

04 October 1999 - Sir de Villiers Graaff (86), former leader of the United Party, dies.

05 October 1815 - Cornelis F. Bezuidenhout, frontier farmer, is summoned to appear in court in Graaff-Reinet on charges laid by one Booi. He refuses and is sentenced to one month imprisonment. At his arrest he is fatally shot by police and this led to the Slagtersnek Revolt.

05 October 1844 - Francis William Reitz, president of the Orange Free State, is born in Swellendam, Cape Colony.

05 October 1864 - John Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town.

05 October 1869 - Dr Willem Jacobus Viljoen, teacher and linguist, is born in Richmond, Cape.

05 October 1883 - Prof. Johannes Jacobus Smith, professor in Afrikaans at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Tulbach, western Cape.

05 October 1886 - After the proclamation of the public gold diggings at Randfontein the previous day, Johann Rissik, ZAR official, sends a plan for the surveying of the new town to surveyor J.E. de Villiers, remarking that the town's name is to be Johannesburg.

05 October 1899 - Anglo-Boer War 2: A crowd of stranded Black mineworkers block part of Marshall Street, but at night time the police persuade them to go to the Agricultural Showgrounds for the night, while waiting for the long march home to start. The have to walk as no trains are available.

05 October 1899 - Anglo-Boer War 2: Western Australia offers military assistance to Britain.

05 October 1923 - Glynis Johns, South African actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners, Coming of Age, Glynis), is born in Pretoria. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/oct05.htm

05 October 1924 - Thomas Campbell (42), SA cricket player in five test matches, dies in Natal. (Wallis, F. (2000).

05 October 1943 - John Ndevasia Muafangejo, SA artist, is born in Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola. He moved to South West Africa in 1956 and died in late 1987 in Namibia.

05 October 1960 - In a referendum limited to white voters only, 52 percent of South African voters favour the establishment of a Republic http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1962 - Richard Granville Baloyi, politician and businessman and community leader born c. 1897, dies in Alexandra.

05 October 1971 - The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces at the National Party Congress the incidences on the border of Zambia and the Caprivi Strip. He reminds the Congress of his previous warnings that South Africa will not tolerate the incursion of communist trained terrorists into South African territory and they will be pursued to the land from where they came. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1973 - The Minister of Labour exercises his power under the Bantu Labour Relations Regulation Bill to order minimum wage increases of between fifty and ninety per cent for a large proportion of the more than 100,000 Africans employed in the civil engineering and road-making industries in main urban areas. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1973 - The United Nations General Assembly rejects South Africa's credentials. The Assembly President rules, however, that the measure does not affect the delegations right to participate, and the Prime Minister affirms South Africa's intention to remain in the United Nations despite mounting opposition. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1973 - A State Presidential Proclamation, widening powers of the Group Areas Act, is published in a bid to prevent multi-racial matches at Pietermaritzburg's Aurora Cricket Club. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1976 - The elected leaders in the Coloured Persons' Representative Council reject the government s emergency mini-budget and demand the summoning of an all-race National Convention to consider the country's future. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1977 - Sir de Villiers Graaff announces his retirement from politics, having been leader of the opposition from 1956 until the dissolution of the United Party on 28 June 1977. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1980 - Chief Lennox Sebe, Chief Minister of the Ciskei, accepts independence in principle, and wins endorsement for his stand at a rally in Zwelitsha, near East London. He pledges to hold a referendum on the issue. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 198 - The leaders of six black homelands reject the new Constitution. Their statement is also signed by a number of black business and church leaders. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1984 - Louis le Grange states that the South African Defence Force units will be deployed increasingly in a supportive role to the police in maintaining an effective protective force against radical elements. On 6-9 October they are deployed in Soweto. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1987 - President P.W. Botha decides against scrapping the Separate Amenities Act, but agrees that some residential areas can be opened to all races. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

05 October 1998 - Fifty-seven people drown when a heavily loaded ferry capsizes on the Kaduna River in northern Nigeria.

05 October 2004 - World Teachers' Day. (GIEP: Celebrating 10 Years of Freedom).

06 October 1654 - The Directors of the Dutch East India Company (Heeren XVII or Lords Seventeen) propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families.

06 October 1720 - Elizabeth Bosman, early SA author and religious poet, is born in Drakenstein, Cape.

06 October 1840 - The corner stone of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Cape Town is laid, one of the biggest building projects of that time in the Cape. The total cost was £10 377.

06 October 1864 - Gen. Christiaan Botha, younger brother of Gen. Louis Botha, is born in Greytown, Natal.

06 October 1887 - Jan Bantjies, Voortrekker teacher of Paul Kruger and M.W. Pretorius, dies.

06 October 1899 - Anglo-Boer War 2: After the closure of the mines more than 7 000 Black mineworkers, escorted by Mr J.J. Marwick, representative of the Natal Native Affairs Department and six Republican policemen, leave Johannesburg on their way home to Natal and Zululand, walking about 56 kilometers per day - a grueling journey.

06 October 1902 - The railway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique, 3 200 km, is completed.

06 October 1911 - Henrietta Stockdale (64), SA nursing pioneer, dies in Kimberley.

06 October 1943 - Gustav Schoeman Preller (68), journalist, cultural leader and first Afrikaans literary critic, dies in Pelindaba, near Pretoria.

06 October 1955 - The Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK), institutes its medal of honour for services to the people.

06 October 1967 - A Bill is introduced into the Lesotho parliament providing for the extradition of fugitives from the Republic of South Africa. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

06 October 1971 - The Minister of State of the Ivory Coast, Koffia Ndia, visits South Africa, reaffirming the country's commitment to dialogue. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

06 October 1973 - The Egyptians and Syrians launch surprise attacks on Israel on Yom Kippur day, catching Israel almost totally by surprise and starting the seven-day war. http://www.allatsea.co.za/retroevents.htm

06 October 1980 - Parliament meets in special session to elect the National Party candidate, Alwyn Schlebusch, as the nation's first Vice-President. In this role, he will be Chairman of the President's Council, from 1 January 1981. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

06 October 1984 - Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa's action in linking their sit-in with the Coventry case. They are immediately arrested and detained by security police.

06 October 1993 - The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 0-4 against Mexico.

06 October 1999 - The SA Agricultural Union changes its name on the union's annual meeting in Rustenburg to Agri South Africa.

07 October 1854 - Gen. Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, Chief Commandant of the Free State forces during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born on the farm Leeuwkop, near Smithfield, OFS.

07 October 1885 - Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff, SA sculptor and grandson of Pres. Paul Kruger, is born in Pretoria.

07 October 1895 - One of the biggest faction fights ever recorded on the Witwatersrand, start as a canteen brawl. Zulus, Shangaan, Chopis and Inhambanes fought between The Geldenhuys and Jumpers Mines, with the Shangaan side defeating the Zulu side. A number of men are killed.

07 October 1931 - Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, cleric and chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal.

07 October 1964 - It is announced in Rawalpindi that the government of Pakistan has decided to ban all exports from Pakistan to South Africa and has issued instructions to Pakistani shipping companies not to enter South African ports. Landing and passage facilities have already been refused to South African aircraft. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

07 October 1969 - The government announces the twenty nominated members of the Coloured Persons' Representative Council for the four provinces. These include thirteen defeated candidates; all are supporters of separate development; thus the government ensures that the defeated Federal Party will command a majority in the new Council. All other contesting parties condemn the government's action. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

07 October 1971 - SWAPO claims it was not responsible for placing landmines in the Caprivi Strip and that the guerrillas were not operating from Zambia, but from inside Namibia. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

07 October 1973 - A delegation of British Trade Union leaders carry out an intensive programme of visits and talks (7-20 October), investigating trade union conditions and meeting the Prime Minister and several other government ministers. Their leader, Victor Feather, President of the European Trade Union Confederation, outlines a six point plan for industrial prosperity and black workers advancement. The government rejects it. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

07 October 1987 - Dr Cedric Pthudi (75), chief minister of the Lebowa homeland, is born.

07 October 1991 - Twenty mourners die in Katlehong, East Rand, when gunmen open fire at Sam Ntuli's funeral.

07 October 1993 - The Freedom Alliance is formed. It seeks to gain concession on federalism from the ANC and to displace the National Party. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

07 October 1996 - Inkatha withdraws again from the Constitutional Assembly, indicating it is considering reviving its demand for international mediation. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

07 October 1998 - Viagra, the alleged wonder cure for impotence, is sanctioned by the SA Medicine Control Board.

07 October 1999 - Nine people are killed on the N1 between Bloemfontein and Winburg when a lorry runs into the back of a stationary bus.

07 October 1999 - Dmitri Tsafendas (81), murderer of SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd in 1966, dies in the Sterkfontein psychiatric hospital on the West Rand.

07 October 2003 - At least one-fifth of South Africa's military is infected with the virus that causes AIDS, and Defense Minister Mosiuoa Lekota states that ‘the South African National Defense Force is no longer accepting HIV positive people into their ranks'. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

07 October 2003 - Treatment Action Campaign chairperson Zackie Achmat starts antiretroviral therapy but lives with the guilt of having access to the life-prolonging drugs while fellow South Africans wait for the roll-out of ARVs in the public health sector. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1828 - Dr James Barry, physician at the Cape who performed the first successful Caesarian and who was allegedly a woman, leaves the Cape for Mauritius to where he had been transferred.

08 October 1853 - Pieter Jacob Marais discovers alluvial gold in the Jukskei River on B.J. Liebenberg's farm, Bultfontein.

08 October 1895 - South African artist and eminent portrait painter Neville Lewis is born in Cape Town. (Among his sitters were Field-Marshal Montgomery, General Jan Smuts, Sir Winston Churchill and King Alphonso XII of Spain.) http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1423818,00.html

08 October 1903 - Christoffel Hermanus Kühn (Mikro), Afrikaans author who received the Scheepers Prize for youth work, is born on Van Reenen's Farm, district of Williston.

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08 October 1905 - Lord William Selbourne, British high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, opens the first church in Germiston, the St Andrew Presbyterian Church.

08 October 1922 - Heart transplant pioneer Professor Chris Barnard is born in Beaufort West. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1423818,00.html

08 October 1934 - Kader Asmal, SA Minister of Education, is born in Stanger, Natal.

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08 October 1948: Rachel Isabella (Tibbie) Steyn, widow of President M.T. Steyn of the former Orange Free State Republic, is honoured by the FAK in Bloemfontein.

08 October 1962 - Uganda becomes an independent nation within the British Commonwealth. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1423818,00.html

08 October 1962 - Algeria is admitted as the 109th member of the United Nations (UN). http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/oct08.htm

08 October 1967 - SA signs multilateral treaty on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1968 - SA signs multilateral treaty on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1971 - The United Nations Security Council meets in emergency session to hear a complaint by Zambia against numerous violations by South African forces against the sovereignty, airspace and territorial integrity of Zambia. South Africa categorically rejects the Zambian allegations. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1974 - The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development states that, in 1973, 475,387 foreign Africans were working in South Africa. Of these 36,480 were from Botswana, 148,856 from Lesotho. 139,714 from Malawi, 129,198 from Mozambique, 3,249 from Rhodesia, 10,032 from Swaziland and the remainder from other African territories. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1976 - A meeting is held between Prime Minister John Vorster and eight ‘homeland' leaders to discuss the unrest which has left at least three-hundred-and-forty dead, around two-thousand injured and hundreds under arrest. He rejects their demands for a multi-racial constitution and the release of black leaders in detention, This failure precipitates a move towards a common political front between traditional leaders and radical black students to fight for freedom . http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1979 - Dr. Eschel Rhoodie is found guilty on five of seven charges of fraud or theft involving R63,000 of secret government funds and sentenced to six years imprisonment. He is granted bail the following day. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1981 - Equal education for all races, including a provision that will allow White government schools to admit Blacks, is proposed in the Human Sciences Research Council, Committee report, chaired by Professor J.P. de Lange. Eleven guiding principles are laid down. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1984 - SA signs treaty relating to certificates of airworthiness for imported aircraft with the United States. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1984 - The Mozambique Government, its right-wing guerrilla opponents and South African officials met in Pretoria to thrash out details of a cease-fire plan to end civil conflict in Mozambique. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1988 - A delegation of 70 representatives of the South African Indian community meet African National Congress representatives in Lusaka. Discussions include the structure of a post-apartheid economy and ways of ending apartheid. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1423818,00.html

08 October 1990 - The South African government announces that it has activated the indemnity process and sets this day as the cut-off date for people to qualify for clemency or immunity from prosecution. 20 000 exiles will be allowed to return to the country. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1423818,00.html

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08 October 1990 - A joint statement is issued following a meeting by President de Klerk and Nelson Mandela to discuss the recent violence. The statement acknowledges that there are "different current perceptions concerning the causes and handling of this violence". http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1990 - SA signs agreement with the government of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar regarding merchant shipping and related maritime matters. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1991 - SA Foreign Minister R. F. Botha on 3-day visit to Australia. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1992 - SA signs agreement with Israel on co-operation in the fields of culture, education and science. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1993 - Five black youths are killed in an army raid on a house sheltering an alleged Apla group in Umtata, Transkei.

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08 October 1993 - The United Nations lifts all mandatory sanctions against South Africa, paving the way for the country's re-admission to the organization

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08 October 1993 - SA signs bilateral air transport agreement with France. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm

08 October 1994 - The SA rugby team beats Argentine 42-22 in Port Elizabeth.

08 October 1999 - A key suspect in the bomb attack on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, who was tracked down in Cape Town by the FBI and extradited, denies the accusation during his first appearance in a New York court.

08 October 2001 - The United Nations (UN) and African-born Secretary-General Kofi Annan share the Nobel Peace Prize. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/oct08.htm

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08 October 2003 - According to the Washington Post, South Africa is one of the countries most affected by HIV and AIDS. About 4.7 million people (±11 % of the population) are infected with the virus. Between 600 and 1,000 die each day from the disease and related complications.

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