1980 |
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1980 is declared the Year of the
Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter
in 1955. |
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| 1980 |
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SACTU declares the year as the
year of the Worker |
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| 1980 |
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Massive national school boycotts
rocks the townships. |
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| 1980 |
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Fietas, Johannesburg: The Pageview
Residents Association (PRA) enters into negotiations with the Department
of Community Development in an attempt to keep residence. |
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| 1980 - 1983 |
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Between 1980 and 1983 important
amendments were made to the 1979 Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act,
but by 1983 the following major changes had been made:
•The term ‘employee’ was redefined to include all persons working for an
employer.
•Racially mixed unions were allowed.
•Ministerial approval was no longer required for the registration of mixed
unions.
•Job reservation was repealed (Bendix 1989: 305).
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| 1980 |
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Republic of South African Constitution
Fifth Amendment Act No 101:
Abolished the Senate, which was replaced with a multiracial President’s
Council, consisting of sixty white, coloured and Indian nominated members.
The council was charged with creating a new constitution that would give
expression to coloured and Indian political ambitions. The recommendations
of this body would lay the basis for the constitution of a tricameral Parliament.
Commenced: 1 August 1983
Repealed by the Constitution of Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of 1993
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| 1980 |
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Gazankulu: Divorce Act No 7:
Commenced: 1 April 1981
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| 1980 |
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QwaQwa: Police Act No 7:
Commenced: 27 February 1981
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| 1980 - 1981 |
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Commission of Inquiry on the Constitution
Mandate: To inquire into and report on the introduction of a new Constitution
for the Republic of South Africa
Date of Report: Interim Report: 6 May 1980
Final Report: 4 February 1981
Chair: SCHLEBUSCH, A. L.
Ref: Interim Report: RP 68/1980
Final Report: RP 23/1981
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| 1980 |
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Commission of Inquiry into Reporting
of Security Matters regarding the South African Defence Force and the South
African Police Force
Mandate: To inquire into and make recommendations on -
a)the delimitation of, on the one hand, the interests of the news media
and the public’s right to be informed on affairs of the state and, on the
other hand, the interests of the state and of its citizens as entrenched
by section 118 and other provisions of the Defence Act of 1957 and the Police
Act of 1958, which require that newsworthy information should sometimes
not be made known;
b)ways of reconciling these interests and any changes that might be needed
to the Defence Act of 1957 and the Police Act of 1958.
Date of Report: 1980
Chair: STEYN, M.T.
Ref: RP 52-80
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| 1980 |
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The Senate was abolished in 1980
and was replaced by a President's Council consisting of 60 members of the
Chinese, Coloured, Indian and white communities. |
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| 1980 |
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The Taxation of Blacks Amendment
made further provision to put 'African taxpayers on the same footing as
those of other races.' |
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| 1980 |
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16 707 were convicted on politically-related
charges.
768 people were detained up until November 1980. |
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| 1980 |
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Attendance at African schools
increased by 89% since 1965.
Boycotts of schools and universities started at secondary schools in Cape
Town and spread to primary schools and spread finally to schools country-wide.
The boycott of red meat was called for by the Western Province General Workers
Unions. A boycott of Colgate was also called for by the Chemical Workers
Industrial union.
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| 1980 |
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Cape school boycotts begin.
The De Lange Commission is instituted to conduct an in-depth investigation
into education and to make recommendations for an education policy for South
Africa.
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| 1980 |
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The number of economically active
women in South Africa is at 31.5%.
Fatima Meer builds schools in Umlazi, Port Shepstone, Inanda, establishes
Tembalihle Tutorial College and a Crafts’ Centre in Phoenix.
Zubeida Jaffer,journalist, is detained for two months after exposing police
killings.
Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi goes into exile, she joins ANC in Zimbabwe and
works in political structures under the late Joe Gqabi.She later becomes
a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and receives training in Angola.Geraldine
receives Officer Training at Military Institute of USSR and specialized
training in Cuba.
The formation of the United Women's Organization in the Western Cape. This
became instrumental in the formation of the United Democratic Front. |
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| 1980 |
January |
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The Schlebush Commission holds
hearings in Cape Town on the country’s constitutional future. Among the
organizations submitting memoranda, or alternative proposals, are the PEP,
the NRP, the South African Indian Council and Inkatha. |
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| 1980 |
January |
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In January three guerrillas were
shot dead in a siege at the Volkskas bank in Pretoria. Two hostages were
killed and 9 hostages and two policeman were seriously injured. |
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| 1980 |
3 January |
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A police station at Soekmekaar,
Northern Transvaal, is attacked. |
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| 1980 |
6 January |
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South Africa:Signs loan agreement
with Malawi. |
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| 1980 |
10 January |
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Security Police in Port Elizabeth,
detain three black civil rights leaders after the Port Elizabeth Black Civic
Organisation (PEBCO) decide to implement a city-wide strike and demonstrations
against the planned removal of residents from Walmer. Banning orders are
placed on all three on their release from detention on 27 February 1980. |
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| 1980 |
12 January |
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A British Sports Council team
begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial
discrimination in sport and to report on its findings. |
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| 1980 |
21 January |
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It is revealed in Switzerland
that the International University Exchange Fund’s Deputy Director, Craig
Williamson, has been working as an agent for the South African Security
Police. This is confirmed by the Minister of Police, Louis le Grange, on
24 January 1980. |
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| 1980 |
25 January |
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A bank and twenty-five hostages
are seized at Silverton, Pretoria. Two of the hostages die; several are
injured; all three ANC guerrillas are killed. |
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| 1980 |
31 January |
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The Swiss government send an official
protest to the South African government over the illegal activities of South
African agents operating in Switzerland and liaising with Anti-Apartheid
organizations. The International University Exchange Fund (IUEF) Director,
Lieutenant-General Erikssen, resigns with effect from July 1980, his health
having deteriorated after the exposure of Craig Williamson. Financial irregularities
are also alleged. |
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| 1980 |
6 February |
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The Prime Minister explains that
the administrative rationalization is to be implemented in four states,
and announces that the Department of National Security (DONS) is to become
the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI). Mr. Botha further rejects
calls made by Helen Suzman, (PFP) for a Parliamentary investigation into
allegations that DONS has intercepted mail and tapped telephones to build
up dossiers on NP opponents.
The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces
that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial basis in Pretoria and
Bloemfontein, as part of a movement to remove restrictions. |
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| 1980 |
7 February |
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Transkei announces it is re-establishing
diplomatic relations with South Africa because South Africa is now willing
to negotiate over disputed land. |
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| 1980 |
12 February |
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The Quail Commission, examining,
at the request of the government of the Ciskei, the question of the feasibility
of independence of the Ciskei releases its report. It finds that ninety
per cent of all Ciskeians favour a one-man one-vote system within South
Africa and advises against independence as a first option. |
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| 1980 |
15 February |
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha decides
to invite leaders of the black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a
‘statement of intent’, by all South Africans. |
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| 1980 |
18 February |
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In a joint statement the leaders
of seven black ‘homelands’ set out the basis of a possible consensus solution
for South Africa’s constitutional future. |
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| 1980 |
19 February |
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The South African Defence Force
has taken over from the police the security of Northern Natal since the
area is becoming a third front in Security Force action against guerrilla
infiltration. |
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| 1980 |
21 February |
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South Africa warns Mozambique
it will not hesitate to strike back if Mozambique continues to shelter guerrillas
conducting murderous operations and acts of sabotage against South Africa. |
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| 1980 |
22 February |
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The South African Coloured Persons’
Council Bill is introduced into Parliament. A government memorandum released
on the same day gives obstruction by the Labour Party as the reason for
the abolition of the previous Coloured Persons’ Representative Council.
The Bill is opposed by the PEP and the NRP.
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| 1980 |
28 February |
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An Angolan priest, the Reverend
David Russell, is sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defying his banning
order and attending a church synod meeting. He is released on 18 December
1980 after the Supreme Court has, on 5 December 1980, ruled an appeal that
his sentence should be suspended except for fourteen days.
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| 1980 |
29 February |
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Justice Petrus Cillié submits
to Parliament his report on the violent racial disturbances beginning in
Soweto in June 1976, and covering the period to February 1977. The report
concludes that the immediate cause of the riots was the government’s decision
to introduce the use of Afrikaans on an equal basis with English as the
official teaching medium in black schools. Underlying dissatisfaction had
been exploited by activists. |
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| 1980 |
March |
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the Sunday Post launches a nationwide “Release Mandela” campaign, about 15 million sign the petition. |
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| 1980 |
March |
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A campaign is launched for the
release of Nelson Mandela. Organizations supporting the campaign include
the Soweto ‘Committee of, Inkatha, AZAPO, the Labour Party, the Natal Indian
Congress and the South African Council of Churches (SACC). |
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| 1980 |
March |
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Following the Rhodesian elections,
the Sunday Post, Johannesburg, launched a campaign for the release of Nelson
Mandela; it received wide support in the country. |
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| 1980 |
March |
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Following the Rhodesian elections,
the Sunday Post, Johannesburg, launched a campaign for the release of Nelson
Mandela; it received wide support in the country. |
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| 1980 |
3 March |
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A large cache of arms is discovered
in a township near Springs, East of Johannesburg. Together with the buried
arms are bundles of ANC leatlets. |
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| 1980 |
9 March |
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces
that all South Africa’s races will take part in a constitutional conference,
but he emphasizes that he rejects one-man, one-vote and systems based on
consensus and federalism. |
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| 1980 |
11 March |
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After a Cabinet meeting, both
P.W. Botha and Dr. Treurnicht issue statements calling for party unity.
South Africa:Signs agreement with Taiwan for the reciprocal exemption from
taxes on income.
South Africa:Signs agreement with Taiwan for the reciprocal treatment of
navigation.
South Africa:Signs agreement with Taiwan for scientific and technological
cooperation.
South Africa:Signs air service agreement with Taiwan. |
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| 1980 |
12 March |
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The Nederduitse Gereformerde Kerk
(NGK) together with its sister church for blacks (the NGK in Afrika), Coloureds
(the NG Sendingkerk) and Indians (the Reformed Church in Africa) issue a
statement stating that the Churches bring no objection in principle if the
authorities judge that circumstances justify reconsideration of the Immorality
Act and the Mixed Marriages Act.
A court in Pretoria sentences nine blacks to terms of imprisonment from
five to seven years on charges of training as guerrillas outside South Africa
or recruiting others to undergo training. |
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| 1980 |
13 March |
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Lilian Ngoyi, a leading member
of the Executive of the ANC dies. |
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| 1980 |
13 March |
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The former Prime Minister and
President, John Vorster, re-emerges into public life with a speech in Bloemfontein
in which he questions P.W. Botha’s policy initiatives and backs the hard-line
taken by Dr. Treurnicht. Separate development, he says, is the salvation
of South Africa. |
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| 1980 |
13 March |
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Lillian Ngoyi dies |
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| 1980 |
15 March |
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The Prime Minister states that
those who disagree with the government’s 12-point strategy, accepted by
all four National Party Provincial Congresses in 1979, and unanimously endorsed
by the Cabinet, do not belong within the National Party. |
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| 1980 |
16 March |
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Dr. Connie Mulder, leader of the
recently-formed Nasionale Konservatiewe Party (NKP), foresees a new political
alliance bringing to power a conservative government. |
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| 1980 |
21 March |
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The Prime Minister dismisses allegations
that the Cabinet is divided, and denies that there are differences in principle
between Dr. Treurnicht and himself. |
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| 1980 |
21 March - 23 February |
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A weekend of events commemorate
the twentieth anniversary of the Sharpeville shootings on 21 March 1960.
Speakers attack the policy of apartheid. |
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| 1980 |
26 March |
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The 1980 Defence Budget amounts
to R2,074 million or fifteen percent of the total Budget |
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| 1980 |
April - July |
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Serious unrest among the Coloured
population leads to a school boycott, joined by students and teachers and
accompanied by widespread demonstrations ending in violence. Over thirty
people are killed in rioting,while several hundred are detained by police. |
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| 1980 |
April - July |
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In student protests all over the
country, more than a thousand students as well as several lecturers and
public leaders - were detained. Many students were killed or injured. |
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| 1980 |
April |
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In April the Coloured Representative
Council was dissolved.
In April the Black Consciousness Movement of South Africa changed its name
to the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania.
In April, the African United Automobile Workers Union split and the Motor
Assemblies and Components Workers Unions of South Africa was formed (MACWUSA). |
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| 1980 |
1 April |
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The South African Coloured Persons’
Council BILL comes into force. It abolishes the Coloured Persons’ Representative
Council (CRC) and provides for the creation of a Coloured Persons’ Council
(CPC) to consist of not more than thirty members nominated by the State
President, with an Executive comprising an Administrator of Coloured Affairs
and four other members, also appointed by the State President. |
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| 1980 |
1 April |
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A summit meeting of nine southern
African countries in Lusaka decided to form the Southern African Development
Coordination Conference (SADCC) to promote regional development and lessen
dependence on South Africa. |
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| 1980 |
1 April |
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A summit meeting of nine southern
African countries in Lusaka decided to form the Southern African Development
Coordination Conference (SADCC) to promote regional development and lessen
dependence on South Africa. |
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| 1980 |
2 April |
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Among those giving the Constellation’
plan warm, but qualified support, is Harry Oppenheimer. Opening the Constellation
of Southern African States’ exhibit he says that this excellent idea can
only succeed if racial discrimination is eliminated and a settlement is
reached over Narntbm. |
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| 1980 |
4 April |
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ANC insurgents launch a rifle,
rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station, Johannesburg. Pamphlets
are scattered demanding the release from Robben Island of Walter Sisulu. |
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| 1980 |
11 April |
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The Minister of Manpower Utilization
announces the removal of the ban on the employment of skilled black construction
workers in white areas.
The Prime Minister states that the government has no intention of releasing
Nelson Mandela.
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution condemning
South Africa for continued, intensified and unprovoked acts against Zambia.
South Africa blames terrorist attacks launched from Zambia for border instability. |
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| 1980 |
12 April - 13 April |
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Chief Buthelezi urges his supporters
to use the official community councils in black urban areas as part of the
democratic struggle against the apartheid system. |
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| 1980 |
14 April |
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The Steyn Commission of Inquiry
appointed to investigate relations between the Security Forces - both Military
and Police - and the press proposes that new restrictions should be introduced
on the publication of details of acts of political violence and the manufacture
of arms. The system of accreditation of journalists should be more strictly
applied and foreign correspondents should be subject to a more vigorous
registration procedure. |
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| 1980 |
15 April |
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The (Coloured) Labour Party National
Executive Committee resolves to expel from the party anyone accepting nomination
from the government to the Coloured Persons’ Council (CPC).
The leader of the PFP states that the PFP as a party has not taken a decision
regarding the campaign to have Nelson Mandela released, but he, personally,
has urged his release providing he renounces violence. |
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| 1980 |
18 April |
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Zimbabwe gains its independence. |
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| 1980 |
20 April |
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Mounting protests by Coloured
students against the educational and political system escalate further.
Representatives of more than sixty Coloured high schools, teacher training
colleges and the University of the Western Cape resolve to continue their
boycott of classes. The boycott begins on 21 April 1980 and is widely observed
by approximately 100,000 students from seventy schools for three weeks. |
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| 1980 |
21 April |
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The Coloured schools boycott is
joined by pupils at a number of Indian schools in Pretoria and Natal. Support
is also pledged by Black Consciousness groups. |
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| 1980 |
29 April |
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Hundreds of Coloured school children
are arrested in Johannesburg during a student-police confrontation during
the school boycott in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act. The Prime Minister
warns in Parliament that such actions would meet with the full might of
the state.
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| 1980 |
6 May |
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The Advocate-General’s report
confirms that the Herstigte Nasionale Party’s office telephones have been
illegally tapped and calls intercepted. He recommends stricter controls
over the State Security Services’ monitoring of mail and telephone conversations.
Black PEBCO activist Thozamile Botha breaks his banning order and escapes
to Lesotho. |
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| 1980 |
7 May |
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The interim majority report of
the Schlebusch Commission is tabled. A minority report by the PFP members
of the Commission opposes the proposal to create a President’s Council which
would not include black representatives. |
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| 1980 |
8 May |
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces
that his government accepts the recommendations of the Schlebusch Commission
including the replacement of the Senate by a President’s Council comprised
of sixty Whites, Coloureds, Indians and Chinese. Also proposed is the nomination
of twenty additional Members of Parliament to be appointed on a proportional
basis by the leaders of the political parties.
In the Fauresmith by-election the National Party retains its seat against
a double right-wing challenge from the Herstigte Nasionale Party and the
recently formed National Conservative Party.
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| 1980 |
12 May |
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The British Sports Council urges
the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all other international sporting
governing bodies to bring South Africa back into international competition. |
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| 1980 |
20 May |
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Signs multilateral Convention
on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. |
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| 1980 |
22 May |
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In a joint sitting of both Houses
of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the language rights
in the constitution in anticipation of the abolition of the Senate. |
|
| 1980 |
26 May |
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Fifty-three churchmen are arrested
at a demonstration in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow
clergyman who had supported the schools boycott by Coloured students, They
are released on bail the following day, after being charged under the Riotous
Assemblies Act, and warned to appear in court on 1 July 1980. |
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| 1980 |
27 May |
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The schools boycott spreads to
universities and to rural areas and the’ homelands following warnings against
political protests, widespread detentions are reported. |
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| 1980 |
28 May |
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The schools boycott spreads to
the black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth.
At Elsies River, near Cape Town, police fire on Coloured children, killing
two and wounding three. |
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| 1980 |
29 May |
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The Republic of South Africa Constitution
Fifth Amendment Bill, establishing a framework for deliberations on the
country’s future constitutional, economic and social development is introduced
into Parliament. The Bill is based closely on the majority recommendations
of the Schlebusch Commission. |
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| 1980 |
30 May |
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National Security Intelligence
and National Security Council Act No 4:
Enacted mechanisms for state security.
Commenced: 30 May 1980
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|
| 1980 |
June - July |
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A further series of strikes in
the motor industry, affecting especially the Volkswagen works at Uitenhage,
ends on 14 July with an agreement including a twenty-five percent increase
in minimum wages for blacks in the industry. |
|
| 1980 |
1 June |
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Umkhonto weSizwe strike at the
Sasol Complex, causing damage estimated at R66 million. |
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| 1980 |
1 June |
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The SASOL I fuel plant complex
at Sasolburg, fifty miles south of Johannesburg, is attacked. On the same
night SASOL II at Secunda suffers an unsuccessful limpet mine explosion
which fails to set off fires. Oliver Tambo, President of the ANC, claims
that both attacks were made by ANC guerrilla units. |
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| 1980 |
6 June |
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Dr. Renfrew Christie, an academic
and former student leader from the University of Cape Town, is sentenced
to ten years imprisonment, with four other sentences of five years each
to run concurrently, after being found guilty on five charges under the
Terrorism Act. He is said to have supplied information to the ANC concerning
South Africa’s nuclear programme, and to have exposed vital installations
to the danger of sabotage. |
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| 1980 |
6 June |
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Public Security Further Amendment
Act No 20:
Made further amendments regarding the declaration of states of emergency.
Commenced: 6 June 1980
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|
| 1980 |
7 June - 8 June |
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The South African Black Alliance
(SABA) condemns the proposed composition of the President’s Council and
the nomination of its members. |
|
| 1980 |
11 June |
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The Wiehahn Commission publishes
its recommendations on the training of black workers, including government-
supported training in industrial relations. |
|
| 1980 |
12 June |
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The government publishes details
of proposed legislation under which the Minister of Defence could designate
any place, area or installation as a national key point for which adequate
security measures would have to be taken.
The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill receives its third reading.
Among its provisions are the abolition of the Senate and the creation of
a sixty-member President’s Council comprising Whites, Coloured, Indian and
Chinese representatives nominated by the State President for a five-year
term. A new office, that of Vice State President, will be created: he will
act as chairman of the President’s Council. It is opposed by the PFP principally
on the grounds of the exclusion of blacks. |
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| 1980 |
13 June |
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Following a meeting 4-13 June
1980, held at the request of the African group, the United Nations Security
Council unanimously adopts a resolution strongly condemning South Africa
for its massive repression and for its defiance of General Assembly and
Security Council resolutions. Inter alia it calls for the release of all
political prisoners, including Nelson Mandela.
John Wiley, the leader of the South African Party (SAP), announces that
his party is to disband. SAP representatives will retain their seats and
join the National Party, thus increasing the NP strength in the House to
136. |
|
| 1980 |
13 June |
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Security Council adopted resolution
473 (1980), following police violence against a series of demonstrations
by students and other groups in South Africa, strongly condemning the South
African regime for further aggravating the situation. It called on that
regime to end violence against the African people, and take a series of
measures to eliminate apartheid and grant equal rights to all South Africans.
It urgently called for "the release of all political prisoners, including
Nelson Mandela and all other black leaders with whom the regime must deal
in any meaningful discussion of the future of the country." |
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| 1980 |
16 June |
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The ANC issues a call for the
intensification of the liberation struggle on all fronts, but demonstrations
on the anniversary of Sharpeville are generally low key. |
|
| 1980 |
18 June - 19 June |
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Renewed rioting occurs in the
Cape. Criminal elements in the Coloured community are blamed. Official figures
give twenty-nine dead and 141 injured. Damage to shops and businesses runs
into millions of rands. |
|
| 1980 |
18 June |
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The Netherlands Parliament voted
overwhelmingly in favour of an oil embargo on South Africa. |
|
| 1980 |
23 June |
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The Prime Minister warns the country
that confrontation awaits it if his proposed President’s Council fails.
Pretoria is prepared to create consultative bodies for Coloured. Indian
and Black leaders, but not to accept majority rule as the ultimate end. |
|
| 1980 |
25 June |
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Helen Joseph, the seventy-five
year old political campaigner, is served with a two-year banning order.
She is already a ‘listed person’, has had several restrictions previously
imposed upon her, as well as being detained and sentenced to imprisonment.
She regards her banning order -her fourth - as a - certificate of merit’. |
|
| 1980 |
26 June |
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ANC award Isithwalandwe to Govan
Mbeki and Bishop Ambrose Reeves. |
|
| 1980 |
26 June |
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Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, Robert
Mugabe, announces that he will cut diplomatic ties with South Africa. |
|
| 1980 |
July |
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Boycotts continue at a number
of black high schools and higher primary schools, particularly in the Eastern
Cape, with violent disturbances recurring. |
|
| 1980 |
July |
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10 000 Johannesburg municipal
workers went on strike. |
|
| 1980 |
1 July |
|
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The Chamber of Mines of South
Africa announces wage increases of fifteen percent and twenty-eight percent
respectively, for black face and surface workers in the gold and coal mining
industries. |
|
| 1980 |
1 July |
|
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Gazankulu: Police Act No 5:
Commenced: 1 July 1981
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|
| 1980 |
8 July |
|
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces
that all senior members of the South African diplomatic mission in Salisbury
have been withdrawn. |
|
| 1980 |
16 July |
|
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The ‘Committee of 81’, representing
all Coloured schools and colleges in the Western Cape. decide to end class
boycotts. |
|
| 1980 |
17 July |
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The United States expresses deep
concern to the South African Ambassador, Donald Sole, over government and
police response to strikes and demonstrations. Mentioned particularly are
the pervasive ban on peaceful assembly, widespread detentions without charge
or trial, and bannings of moderate leaders of all racial groups. |
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| 1980 |
18 July |
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The Nigerian President of the
Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) states that Britain and other
countries maintaining sporting ties with South Africa are toying with the
unity of the Commonwealth, African and Caribbean countries, particularly
object to the British Lions Rugby Union tour of South Africa that ended
on 14 July 1980. |
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| 1980 |
19 July - 20 July |
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‘Homeland’ leaders do not necessarily
reject the concept of the President’s Council, provided it is revised to
include black representation. A similar stance is taken by the Urban Council’s
Association of South Africa, speaking for leaders of the officially-recognized
community councils in black urban areas. |
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| 1980 |
23 July |
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The Prime Minister announces that
the government is establishing formal machinery to promote its concept of
a ‘constellation of Southern African states’. Dr. Gerhard de Kock, the Finance
Ministers Chief Economic Adviser, is appointed co-ordinator of Constellation
Affairs to chair a Constellation Committee to examine, inter alia. proposals
for a multilateral development bank, industrial decentralization and financial
arrangements between participants. |
|
| 1980 |
24 July |
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Strike of 10,000 Johannesburg
municipal workers.
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|
| 1980 |
30 July |
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Following decisions by the ‘Committee
of 81’ on 16 July and 30 July 1980 Coloured students suspend their boycott
of schools in the Western Cape. |
|
| 1980 |
1 August |
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A strike by black municipal workers
in Johannesburg, ends when police supervise the removal of over 1,000 dismissed
men. The Chairman of the unofficial Black Municipal Workers’ Union (BMWU),
Joseph Mavi, is arrested and subsequently charged under the Sabotage Act,
together with the BMWU Secretary. |
|
| 1980 |
1 August |
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Industrial Conciliation Amendment
Act No 95:
Commenced: 1 August 1980
Repealed by the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995.
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|
| 1980 |
1 August |
|
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Public Security Amendment Act
No 6:
Made further amendments to state security legislation, allowing for greater
control by state security mechanisms.
Commenced: 1 August 1980
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|
| 1980 |
5 August |
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It is reported that the Netherlands
government, co-sponsors of the International University Exchange Fund (IUEF)
along with the governments of Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden, has withdrawn
its financial support for the Fund and that Denmark and Norway have also
ended their contributions.
The trial begins in Pretoria of nine men accused of having planned the siege
of a suburban bank in Pretoria in January, in which five people died, of
belonging to the banned ANC and of having undergone military training in
Angola. |
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