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The trial of eighteen suspected PAC members which began in December 1977 and has already taken over 100 court sessions, resumes
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An American Lear jet, on its way to Johannesburg for repair, is shot down over Eritrea by Ethiopia, killing two people.
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Algeria closes its border with Morocco in an escalating dispute over the arrest of two Algerians accused of plotting to attack
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Pakistan hands over to Kenya a suspect, who reportedly, confessed to involvement in the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi ei
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Over 200 students at the University of Cape Town embark on a “sit in” to protest against government intervention that forced th
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Pakistan hands over to Kenya a suspect, who reportedly, confessed to involvement in the bombing of the US Embassy in Nairobi ei
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Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan
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The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi
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The Australian Government announces that it would give an extra 8 million Australian Dollars in aid to South Africa over the ne
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Over 7,000 people attend a rally in Pretoria to mark the foundation on 4 May 1984 of the Afrikaner Volkswag (People’s Guard), a
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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote
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SA cricket players record their first ever innings win over England when they beat Nassar Hussain’s tourists by an innings and
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says he will not surrender two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotl
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A Somali gunman hijacks a Lufthansa Airbus over Austria with 104 people aboard and orders it flown to New York, where he surren
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A consortium of Black investors takes over African Life from Southern Life at R160 million. (Beeld, 2 Feb 2004. Vandag in die o
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Bathandwa Ndondo
… could as fast as possible before the police stepped in to cover their trail. As casually as he could, he strolled from …
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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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The SA cricket team beats England in the second test in Nottingham, thereby scoring the first victory over the English in ten y
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Having held talks on the escalating crisis over control of the Suez Canal with France and the US, Britain mobilises its forces.
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Having held talks on the escalating crisis over control of the Suez Canal with France and the US, Britain mobilises its forces.
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Senior ANC member, ‘Mac’ Maharaj and over forty other members of the ANC and the SACP, are detained for allegedly attempting to
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In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their
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Over four thousand French troops are to be withdrawn from Madagascar at the request of Gabriel Ramanantsoa, the head of the rec
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The South African Defence Force has taken over from the police the security of Northern Natal since the area is becoming a thir
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Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair thanks President Nelson Mandela by telephone for his help in persuading Libya to hand over two sus
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The South African Police (SAP) take over control of the municipal police. The aim is to render a better service to the communit
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King Leopold of Belgium hands over the Congo to the Belgian State. Previously he held it as a private possession. The Congo Fre
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The South African Police takes over the tasks of the German South-West African police. 423 members of the disbanded police forc
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