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10 – Ciskei, South Africa and Transkei sign a security pact in Cape Town, prohibiting cross-border violence between the three states. 14 – The home of a police officer in Chesterfield, Durban, comes under grenade attack with no injuries. 15 – A special branch police officer is killed by a sniper and another injured south of Durban in ...
Baines, Gary. "The Master Narrative of South Africa's Liberation Struggle: Remembering and Forgetting 16 June 1976, International Journal of African Historical Studies (2007) 40#2 pp. 283–302 in JSTOR; Brewer, John D. After Soweto: an unfinished journey (Oxford University Press, 1986) Hirson, Baruch. "Year of Fire, Year of Ash.
A counter-coup staged in 1990 failed, [6] and Holomisa's military government stayed in power until the reunification of Transkei with South Africa in 1994, after the first post-apartheid general election. [7] The Military Rule Medal was instituted to commemorate the 1987 coup d'état. While the medal is known to have been instituted and awarded ...
December 1987 events in South Africa (1 P) This page was last edited on 24 October 2024, at 02:06 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
An underground methane explosion occurred at the Trans-Natal Colliery near Ermelo in South Africa on 9 April 1987, killing 35 miners. [1] [2] [3] References
December 1987 in South Africa (1 P) This page was last edited on 6 February 2025, at 17:02 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
South Africa was under an arms embargo at the time; the South African government therefore had to buy arms clandestinely. [43] Klatzow's theory postulates that the government placed a rocket system in the cargo hold, and that vibration caused the ignition of unstable ammonium perchlorate, which is a chemical compound used as a missile ...
General elections were held in South Africa on 6 May 1987. The State of Emergency cast a cloud over the elections, which were again won by the National Party (NP) under the leadership of P. W. Botha, although for the first time it faced serious opposition from the right of the South African political spectrum.