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Winnie Mandela

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Winnie Mandela released from banning order and house arrest

Anton Lubowski

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Advocate Anton Lubowski secretary-general of the SWAPO is assassinated

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SA signs Safeguards Agreement with the IAEA

Twin Towers burning

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Thousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington

Beyers Naude

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South Africa mourns the passing of Beyers Naudé, apartheid struggle stalwart and Afrikaner cleric

Hilda Bernstein

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Hilda Bernstein passes away

William Cornwallis Harris

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Artist William Cornwallis Harris starts his expedition from Cape Town to the Western Transvaal and the Magaliesburg Mountain

Marshalltown

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Oldest part of Johannesburg, Marshalltown, is planned

Pieter Dirk Uys (Evita Bezuidenhout)

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Pieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town