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List of events
The following lists events that happened during 1989 in South Africa .
Incumbents
Events
January
8 – The
African National Congress announces that it will start dismantling its
guerrilla camps in
Angola in support of the peace process.
18 – State President
P.W. Botha has a mild stroke.
19 –
Chris Heunis , Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, is appointed Acting State President.
An
Eskom sub-station in Glenwood,
Durban is damaged by an explosion and police later defuses a second bomb found nearby.
An explosion occurs at the home in
Benoni of the chair of the Ministers Council in the House of Delegates.
An explosion occurs at an aircraft factory in
Ciskei .
Two municipal police members are killed in a grenade attack on
Katlehong 's Municipal Police Station.
February
2 – An ailing State President
Pieter Willem Botha steps down from the leadership of the National Party, but remains state president.
Trevor Manuel is released from detention under stringent restriction orders.
An explosion at a municipal police barracks in
Soweto injures four policemen.
An explosion next to a police parade in
Katlehong kills a municipal constable and injures nine others.
A limpet mine explodes at the home of the commander of the Katlehong Police Station, Col. D. Dlamini.
March
April
2 –
SWAPO violates the border war cease-fire by invading
South West Africa from Angola and nearly 300 are killed.
May
June
Four bystanders are injured when a
limpet mine explodes under a police vehicle in
Duduza .
A limpet mine explodes under a vehicle parked outside a policeman's home in
Tsakane .
A grenade is thrown at a police patrol in Tsakane.
A limpet mine explodes in a rubbish bin outside the home of a policeman in
Soweto .
A bomb shatters the windows of
KwaThema Police station's dining hall.
A limpet mine explodes at the Police single quarters in
Ratanda .
A limpet mine explodes at the home of Boetie Abramjee, a
National Party MP.
July
August
15 – P.W. Botha resigns and F.W. de Klerk succeeds him as acting State President.
[1]
A grenade is thrown into a Labour Party polling station in
Bishop Lavis .
The
Brixton Flying Squad HQ is attacked with hand grenades and
AK-47s .
Lt-Col. Frank Zwane, a former liaison officer for the police, and his two sons are injured in a grenade attack in
Soweto .
An explosion occurs at the Athlone Police Station.
September
2 –
"Purple Rain Protest" rioters in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town are sprayed with a purple dye. The resulting graffiti, "
The purple shall govern " graces the pages of newspapers worldwide.
20 –
F.W. de Klerk becomes the 9th
State President of South Africa .
[1]
A police patrol is ambushed by
cadres (terrorists) in
Katlehong .
A mini-limpet mine explodes outside the
Mamelodi Police station.
Parliamentary elections are held and the National Party wins again.
100,000 people attend a peace march called by Cape Town city mayor Gordon Oliver in conjunction with religious leaders.
October
November
Unknown date
Births
15 January –
Akhumzi Jezile , actor, television presenter and producer (d. 2018)
15 January –
Kylie Louw , footballer
21 January –
Brady Barends , cricketer
4 February –
Nkosi Johnson , HIV/AIDS (d. 2001)
10 February –
Simon Harmer , cricketer
22 February –
JJ Engelbrecht , rugby player
24 February –
Lauren Brant ; Australian entertainer
9 March –
Carina Horn , sprinter
9 March –
Luthando Shosha , tv presenter & radio personality
22 March –
Coenie Oosthuizen , rugby player
24 March –
Jennifer Fry , badminton player
4 April –
Dane Paterson , cricketer
13 April –
Gerhard van den Heever , rugby union player
28 April –
Alistair Vermaak , rugby union player
4 May –
Trevor Nyakane , rugby player
11 May –
Ashleigh Buhai , golfer
14 May –
Melinda Bam , beauty pageant contestant and model
2 June –
Dean Burmester , golfer
10 June –
David Miller , cricketer
18 July –
Mandla Masango , football player
25 July –
Victor Hogan , discus thrower
26 July –
Ross Cronjé , rugby union player
30 July –
Wayne Parnell , cricketer
2 August –
Vanes-Mari Du Toit , netball player
2 August –
Rudy Paige , rugby player
3 August –
Themba Zwane , football player
5 August –
Darren Keet , footballer
9 August –
Lunga Shabalala , actor & tv personality.
18 August –
Willie le Roux , rugby player
13 September –
Jurgen Visser , rugby union player
15 September –
Nandipha Magudumana , celebrity doctor
4 October –
Madoda Yako , rugby union player
9 October –
Rilee Rossouw , cricketer
25 October –
Lejeanne Marais , figure skater
6 November –
Cherise Taylor , road cyclist
18 December –
Thulani Hlatshwayo ,
South africa national football team captain
25 December –
Pat O'Brien , rugby union player
29 December –
Sibusiso Vilakazi , football player
Deaths
Railways
Class NG G16A
Locomotives
Sports
Athletics
References
^
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Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Heads of State: 1961-1994 (Accessed on 14 April 2017)
^
"Suspected ANC guerrillas attack radar base" . UPI . Retrieved 30 June 2022 .
^
Blast Opposite Athlone Magistrate’s Court and Police Complex Kills Two.
^ Knight, Robin.
"BP in SA in the final decade of apartheid - OPINION" . www.politicsweb.co.za . Retrieved 3 October 2018 .
^ South African Panorama, October 1989, p. 25
^
"The World's longest tunnel page - Railway Tunnels" . www.lotsberg.net . Archived from
the original on 3 November 2010. Retrieved 29 July 2021 .
^ Information supplied by Phil Girdlestone
^ Paxton, Leith; Bourne, David (1985). Locomotives of the South African Railways (1st ed.). Cape Town: Struik. pp. 109–110.
ISBN
0869772112 .
^ South African Railways Index and Diagrams Electric and Diesel Locomotives, 610mm and 1065mm Gauges, Ref LXD 14/1/100/20, 28 January 1975, as amended
^ Middleton, John N. (2002). Railways of Southern Africa Locomotive Guide - 2002 (as amended by Combined Amendment List 4, January 2009) (2nd, Dec 2002 ed.). Herts, England: Beyer-Garratt Publications. pp. 49–52, 60.
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