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South African President Thabo Mbeki was to arrive today in Abidjan to help with peace negotiations, but the visit was postponed
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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
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Hendrik Ramaala, SA athlete, wins the men’s title at the New York Marathon in an unofficial time of 2hr 9min 24sec, becoming th
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Tiger Woods squanders a lead on the final round of a PGA event for only the third time in his career, allowing South Africa’s R
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Famous South African playwright Gibson Kente (72), who told the world he had HIV/Aids in early 2003, dies.
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The Namibian farm workers union backs down on threat to occupy fifteen commercial farms.
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Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi signs a package of reforms aimed at making Kenya a multiparty democracy.
EventA Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 143 people crashes some twenty-five miles from Lagos, killing all on board
On 7 November 1996, an ADC Airliner ADK 096 crashed near Ejirin, killing all 143 passengers (some reports state 142/141). The plane departed from Port Harcourt…
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Over 2000 Umkhonto we Sizwe soldiers of the ANC’s armed wing are dismissed from the SANDF for failing to report for duty.
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Eleven members of the ANC Youth League die in Nquthu in an IFP attack on the home of ANC supporting chief Molefe.
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha is declared persona non grata by Angola for having supported the rebel Angolan UNITA.
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The National Party registers a landslide victory in a two-party by-election in Randburg, Johannesburg. The NP candidate wins wi
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A conference, in which 230 delegates representing 81 churches participated, was held in Rustenburg in the northwestern Transvaa
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Multiparty elections held in Namibia under a UN peace plan is a step toward independence.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa of Calcutta arrives in South Africa to establish a foundation of her order.
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Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, in office since independence in 1956, is overthrown in a bloodless coup.
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Five more people die in overnight violence in South African townships bringing the death toll during a two-day strike by Black
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Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo is appointed head of state following a non-commissioned officers coup in Burkina Faso.
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The Greek Government expelled the two-man South Africa team of Dale Hayes and from the World Cup international men’s team golf
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The National Party loses its Edenvale, Johannesburg seat to the PFP, its first by-election defeat since it came to power in 194
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The former Information Minister, Dr. Connie Mulder is elected leader of the newly formed National Conservative Party.
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US and Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links for the first time since the 1967 Six-Day War.
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Nelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for "incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”. Mandela was identified as t
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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopts a resolution calling upon Britain, France and Israel to withdraw their troops f
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The first electrical train trip between Pretoria and Johannesburg takes place.
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Lionel Percival Mtshali, national chairman of the Inkatha Freedom Party and former cabinet minister and premier of KwaZulu-Nata
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Helen Suzman, politician opposed to apartheid and former member of parliament for Houghton, is born in Germiston.
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Albert Camus, French philosopher and receiver of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1957, is born in Algeria.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The National Scouts Corps of doubtful repute, consisting of surrenderedBoers who were willing to fight on the
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