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Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air and fo

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The third Annual Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the SADCC and representatives of donor countries and organisations, hel

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The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc

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Christopher Nceba Faku, political activist and prisoner and mayor of Port Elizabeth for several terms, is born in New Brighton,

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Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London

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Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t

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Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.

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Nine Israeli tourists and two Egyptian guards are killed and twenty tourists wounded when masked assailants open fire on a bus

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A customs union and railway extension are proposed at a conference of delegations from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Orange Fr

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Talks (10 -12 May) start in Cape Town between Swaziland and South Africa concerning trade and regional security. South Africa i

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Mandela starts his visit (8-13 April) to Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE to promote trade and cultural links, accompanied

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F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold an emergency meeting with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Zul

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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa

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Rampaging troops kill Rwanda’s acting premier and eleven Belgian UN soldiers and civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a myst

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Author, educationist and social worker and later ANC member of parliament, Ellen Kuzwayo, becomes the first Black woman to rece

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The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and

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World Book and Copyright Day. By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the

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The NP accuses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of bias and announces it will no longer co-operate with it.

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WWII:Operation ‘Brevity’. British forces regain Halfaya Pass and capture the towns of Sollum and Capuzzo on the Egypt–Libya b

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James Sofasonke (meaning ‘We shall all die’) Mpanza, politician and founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better ho

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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician and Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, die

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The Rev. Wilhelm Adolph Alheit, army chaplain for the Boer forces and minister in Colesberg, Dordrecht and Ceres, is born.

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Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet and twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrik

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After failed discussions between President J. N. Boshof of the Republic of the Orange Free State and Chief Moshesh and his sons

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Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker met Mahatma Gandhi in Patna and held several hours of discussions with him (Mahatma Gandhi).

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The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and

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South Africa, Cuba, Angola and the United States announce they are to attend a settlement conference on Angola and Namibia in B

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank meet in Washington, DC with finance ministers and central bankers from

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The SA film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto and directed by Gavin Woods, receives the Oscar f

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Isaac Williams Wauchope, author and activist, is ordained as pastor of the Congregational Native Church of Fort Beaufort and Bl

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Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air and fo

The third Annual Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the SADCC and representatives of donor countries and organisations, hel

The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc

Christopher Nceba Faku, political activist and prisoner and mayor of Port Elizabeth for several terms, is born in New Brighton,

Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London

Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t

Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.

Nine Israeli tourists and two Egyptian guards are killed and twenty tourists wounded when masked assailants open fire on a bus

A customs union and railway extension are proposed at a conference of delegations from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Orange Fr

Talks (10 -12 May) start in Cape Town between Swaziland and South Africa concerning trade and regional security. South Africa i

Mandela starts his visit (8-13 April) to Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE to promote trade and cultural links, accompanied

F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold an emergency meeting with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Zul

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa

Rampaging troops kill Rwanda’s acting premier and eleven Belgian UN soldiers and civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a myst

Author, educationist and social worker and later ANC member of parliament, Ellen Kuzwayo, becomes the first Black woman to rece

The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and

World Book and Copyright Day. By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the

The NP accuses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of bias and announces it will no longer co-operate with it.

WWII:Operation ‘Brevity’. British forces regain Halfaya Pass and capture the towns of Sollum and Capuzzo on the Egypt–Libya b

James Sofasonke (meaning ‘We shall all die’) Mpanza, politician and founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better ho

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician and Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, die

The Rev. Wilhelm Adolph Alheit, army chaplain for the Boer forces and minister in Colesberg, Dordrecht and Ceres, is born.

Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet and twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrik

After failed discussions between President J. N. Boshof of the Republic of the Orange Free State and Chief Moshesh and his sons

Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker met Mahatma Gandhi in Patna and held several hours of discussions with him (Mahatma Gandhi).

The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and

South Africa, Cuba, Angola and the United States announce they are to attend a settlement conference on Angola and Namibia in B

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank meet in Washington, DC with finance ministers and central bankers from

The SA film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto and directed by Gavin Woods, receives the Oscar f

Isaac Williams Wauchope, author and activist, is ordained as pastor of the Congregational Native Church of Fort Beaufort and Bl