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… European Union members meeting in Florence, Italy, fail to agree on a plan to fight high unemployment in Europe and oppose US e …

… General Nasser, president of Egypt, announces a plan to protect the ancient temples at Abu Simbel by moving them to a nearby si …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … The government instructs its Ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a …

… Town with a specially built wagon on a journey, which was to last four years, to explore the …

… School regulations in the Cape Colony altered to leave the decision on the language of instruction to schools.  This meant tha …

… Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, dies …

… Amos Khoza (18) falls to his death seven stories from a flat in Johannesburg where he is allegedly escorting police to identify …

… Nigeria, Sudan and Darfur rebels sign accords on Tuesday to end hostilities and guarantee aid groups’ access to 1.6 m …

… ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela returns to SA after a four-week tour urging leaders in the Far East to maintain sanctions u …

… The multilateral Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in Their Natural State, to which SA is a party, is …

… South African President Thabo Mbeki was to arrive today in Abidjan to help with peace negotiations, but the visit was postponed …

… A prisoner of Pretoria’s C-Max prison manages to obtain a gun, which he uses to shoot dead another inmate and two warders befor …

… Nigerian police fire tear gas to quell a riot, which erupts after officers shot dead a bus driver who refused to pay a bribe. F …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … Swaziland and Lesotho take steps to clear themselves of suspicion of allowing insurgents of the ANC to use their territory as s …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … Defence Minister denies that South Africa has sent troops to Malawi to quell the security threat on Malawi’s southern borde …

… President Nelson Mandela and Steve Tshwete are given leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the verdict on the SAR …

… Woods, editor of the East London Daily Dispatch, escapes to Lesotho through the Caledon River on his way to London. …

… Sudan, angered by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit to the rebel-held south, orders the British ambassador to leave the coun …

… discoverer who discovered a sea route from Europe to Asia around Africa, dies on his final voyage to …

… probably for the last time, buries apartheid, voting 237 to 45 to adopt an interim con …

… About 10 000 people march to the president’s office in Thohoyandou, carrying a human skull believed to be that of a ritual murd …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … A court in Pretoria sentences nine Blacks to terms of imprisonment from five to seven years on charges of training as guerrilla …

… Louis Botha is to be the Union of South Africa’s first prime minister.  Herbert Gladstone, governor-general, asks him to const …

… SA sends troops to Ciskei to suppress mob attacks on factories and shops after military …

… Isak Schrijver with fifteen soldiers and three mineworkers to the north to look for copper. …

… The State President amended the emergency regulations to allow the minister of law and order to restrict the activities of orga …

… that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to …

… a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … Traffic Bill empowers the Minister of Transport Affairs to order ships to be stopped or searched if they are believed …

… between Italy and Ethiopia, whilst Mussolini prepares to ship out 35,000 troops to …

… The European Community agrees to lift sanctions as soon as President F.W. de Klerk fulfils his pledge to repeal cornerstone apa …