1989 In South Africa

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EVENTS

January

A Eskom sub-station in Glenwood, Durban is damaged by explosion, later police defuse a second bomb found nearby

Explosion at an Eskom sub-station in Sandhurst, Johannesburg

A limpit mine explodes at home of the chair of the Ministers Council in the House of Delegates in Benoni

An explosion at aircraft factory in Ciskei

Two municipal police are killed in grenade attack on Katlehong 's Municipal Police Station

8 January - The African National Congress announces that it will start dismantling its Guerrilla camps in Angola in support of the peace process

18 January - State President Of South Africa P.W. Botha has a mild Stroke

19 January - Chris Heunis , Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, is appointed Acting State President

February

An ailing State President Pieter Willem Botha steps down from the presidency

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 explodes at the home of the commander of Katlehong Police Station, Col. D. Dlamini

March

An explosion outside the Natal Command HQ on Durban 's beachfront

15 - 21 March - A conference of African National Congress ' chief representatives and regional treasurers is held in Gran, Norway

April

An explosion at the Police HQ's single quarters in Durban

A bomb explodes at the Yeoville Police Station in Johannesburg

Five special constables are injured in an attack on a police outpost in Katlehong

Two municipal policemen are injured when grenades are thrown at Councillor Abram Mzizi home in Thokoza

An explosion at Nigel 's post office

8 April - The Progressive Federal Party , Independent Democrats and the National Democratic Movement merge to form the Democratic Party

30 April - Helen Suzman , a vocal anti- Apartheid Politician announces her retirement from Parliament

May

The South African Air Force 's Klippan Radar Station in the Western Transvaal comes under Mortar attack

5 May - 3 South Africa n Embassy staff are ordered to leave Britain within 7 days because of the attempted smuggling of a Blowpipe Missile

June

4 bystanders are injured when a limpet explodes under police vehicle in Duduza

A limpet place under a vehicle parked outside a policman's home in Tsakane explodes

A grenade is thrown at a police patrol in Tsakane

A limpet mine explodes in rubbish bin outside the home of 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 Labour Party MP

July

5 July - PW Botha , State President Of South Africa , and Nelson Mandela (in prison at the time) meet for the first time

August

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-47 s

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 at the Athlone Police Station

September

FW De Klerk becomes the 9th State President Of South Africa

A police patrol is ambushed by terrorist or freedom fighters in Katlehong

A mini-limpet explodes outside the Mamelodi Police station

Rioters in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town are sprayed with a purple dye. The resulting graffiti,

100 000 people attend a peace march called by Cape Town city mayor, Gordon Oliver, in conjunction with religious leaders.

October

Bomb explodes outside the BP centre in Cape Town and at a Woodstock garage a few minutes later

Unknown date

The Hluhluwe and Umfolozi Game Reserves are joined through the Corridor Reserve as the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve

The government starts dismantling six Nuclear Fission devices that were built during the Apartheid era

BIRTHS

DEATHS

1 May - David Webster , an academic at the University Of The Witwatersrand and an anti- Apartheid Activist , was shot dead outside his home in Eleanor Street, Troyeville , Johannesburg

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