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A former member of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's entourage testifies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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A former president of the Eastern Cape Agricultural Union, Fred Pettit, is stabbed to death in his house near Queenstown.
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A former theology student, Carl Niehaus, is sentenced to fifteen years in prison for high treason in the Rand Supreme Court. Hi
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A forty-eight-hour strike and a week of mass action starts to force an early transition to majority rule and effective measures
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A four-day conference (16-19 June) to examine racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa is held in Lisbon, Portugal, or
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A freak storm, one of the worst in living memory, hits Johannesburg International Airport, damaging several passenger jets so b
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A free trade agreement between Morocco and the US comes into effect.
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A French Caravelle crashes in Morocco. 106 people are killed.
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A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII.
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A fugitive murderer holds the Alexander family of the SA diplomatic corps in Taiwan hostage.
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A full bench of eleven judges of the Appeal Court upholds an appeal against a conviction under the Terrorism Act, on the ground
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A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched following a shoot-out between police
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A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched following a shoot-out between police
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A further 2,147 mile section of the Cape-to-Cairo Railroad is completed when lines meet at the Sudan-Congo border. africanhisto
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A gale force southeaster wrenches the Antipolis loose from her anchor and the ship runs aground at Oudekraal. In the same sto
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A gangway collapses when passengers board a ferry on the Congo River, drowning at least 147 in the Republic of Congo.
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A gas explosion devastates the officers' club of the SA National Defence Force, a national monument, in Wynberg, Cape Town.
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A Gauteng businessman, who is believed to be linked to an international nuclear weapons smuggling organisation, has been arrest
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A general amnesty is announced for Mau Mau forest fighters in Kenya. africanhistory.about.com
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A general election is held after Gen. J.C. Smuts lost his seat in a by-election in April and resigned as premier without consul
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A German anti-terrorist unit storms a hi-jacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu airport, Somalia. Three Palestinian terrorists
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A German baker, Carel Christoph Pabst, starts a music school in Cape Town to train amateur musicians for his orchestra.
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A German gunboat, Panther, reaches Agadir, Morocco, claiming that the French has ignored the terms of the 1906 Algeciras Confer
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A German photographer, Christian Hohmann (36), dies in a KwaZulu nature reserve when an elephant cow gores him.
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A German protectorate is declared over Angra Pequena and the German flag is hoisted at Lüderitzbucht.
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