3 – Three people are injured when a limpet mine explodes at the corner of Jeppe and Delvers Streets in Johannesburg.
8 – At the AECI plant, a police officer is shot at and in the skirmish that follows, two policemen and one civilian are injured.
9 – A bomb explodes at the OK Bazaars, a national supermarket chain, in Eloff Street, Johannesburg during a protracted strike.
9 – The signal cabin controlling the Johannesburg railway station is gutted by fire. Within 100 minutes of the disaster trains were moving again under the control of signals technicians and flagmen.
9 – A riot squad policeman is killed and two injured when a grenade is thrown into their vehicle.
9 – Police raid English-language newspapers, seizing documents related to an advertisement calling for the legalising of the African National Congress.
20 – The Margo Commission, which is set up to investigate the air disaster in which Samora Machel, Mozambican President, was killed, commences.[2]
21 – Twelve people are killed, including seven children, in KwaMakutha near Amanzimtoti, when the home of the United Democratic Front activist Bheki Ntuli is attacked by a group of men armed with AK-47 rifles.
9 – A police officer, three soldiers and a cadre are killed in a skirmish in Mamelodi.
16 – An explosion occurs at Newcastle train station's waiting room and while police are investigating the blast, a second bomb explodes, injuring a police officer.
19 – An explosion occurs at the Carlton Centre in central Johannesburg.
20 – Two bombs explode at the Johannesburg magistrate's court. The first minor explosion acts as a decoy and is followed by a second more powerful charge minutes later, which kills three police officers and injure four others and six bystanders.
9 –Mozambique and the Soviet Union reject the findings of the Margo Commission on the air disaster in which Samora Machel, Mozambiqian President, was killed.
12 – During a police raid in Athlone, Johannesburg, a militant is killed and four arrested.
18 – A police officer and his wife are injured in attack on their home in Mamelodi East.
23 – South Africa and Malawi sign an agreement for the training of Malawian nurses in South Africa.
24 – Ten people, including two police officers, are injured in grenade attack on a police patrol in Soweto.
28 – Two bombs explode at the Standard Bank arena in Johannesburg.
The South African Army kills four and captures two militants near the Zimbabwe border. After the two cadres are handed over to police, they escape killing two police officers. The army later tracks them down and kills them in a fire-fight.
The Commander of KwaNdebele National Guard Unit in Marble Hall and his son, a police officer, is shot and killed by AK-47 fire.
October
1 – A bomb placed outside the door of Amichand Rajbansi's NPP office in Lenasia explodes hours after official opening, with no injuries.
28 – Near the Swaziland border a soldier is killed and a militant wounded in a skirmish.
November
5 –Govan Mbeki is released from custody of Apartheid government after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison.
6 – A special constable and two civilians are killed by sniper fire in Khayelitsha.
12 – Two limpet mines explode and a third one is safely detonated by police at the Zola Municipal offices in Soweto.
18 – A Limpet mine is found and defused at the Johannesburg post office.
23 – During a police raid on a house in Umlazi, Durban two guerillas and an alleged collaborator are killed. Two police officers are injured in the raid.
30 – Three explosions occur at the Dube municipal training centre in Soweto, with no injuries.
December
10 – During a police raid on a shack in the Port Elizabeth area, they meet heavy resistance from the residents. The police drive a Casspir over the shack, killing four.
12 – A group of police officers are fired upon by militants from a moving car in Soweto. Two police officers are killed and four injured.
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