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A suicide bomber blasts his way into the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, setting off a powerful explosion that kills sixteen peo

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Thirty-three people are killed when a military passenger plane crashes into market stalls at Boende, Democratic Republic of Con

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Leander Starr Jameson crosses the border into Transvaal, leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen of the Chartered Comp

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Justice M. Stegmann records an open finding in the inquest into the murder of Witwatersrand University academic Dr David Webste

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The six-man Commission of Inquiry into security legislation, under the chairmanship of Justice P.I. Rabie, presents its report

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The Harms Commission, instituted to inquire into unlawful acts by the security forces, starts hearing evidence in the Nederduit

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Yusufu Lule, driven into exile by former Uganda dictator Idi Amin, is sworn in as the country’s new president.

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A Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia’s national soccer team crashes into the Atlantic off Gabon, killing all thirty aboard

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The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces that a pilot plant for the manufacture of enriched uranium has gone into production

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The Refugees Act, 1998, comes into action. Mozambique and Zimbabwe are by far the largest source of illegal immigrants.

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A rusty freighter teeming with thousands of sick and hungry Liberian refugees is finally allowed to limp into a Ghanaian port a

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”De Nationale Pers” forerunner to Tafelberg Publishers is registered as a company. Six years later the name was translated into

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The first wave of a US military task force moves cautiously into central Africa, preparing for a possible evacuation of America

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Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, accused of political

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Nicholas (Boikie) Thlapi disappears after allegedly been taken into police custody at a roadblock at Stilfontein on his way fro

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South African President F.W. de Klerk declares a state of emergency in Natal and orders army into the Zulu stronghold.

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The expedition under August F. Beutler into the interior of the country, finds survivors of the French ship Le Nécessair

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Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office after the announcement the previous day that four tribal chiefs

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President F.W. de Klerk announces the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry, led by Justice Richard Goldstone, into the poli

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The Commission of Inquiry into the constitutional, political, economic and social development of Natal/KwaZulu, set up by Chief

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Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression

Open Textbooks for Africa Summit

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Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 23 September 1976, Volume 12 and Volume 13

Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 23 September 1976, Volume 12 and Volume 13

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Andrew Harold Makope disappears in Mamelodi after being taken into a light blue combi a short distance from his home by armed m

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Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius) (76), SA theologian, poet and co-translator of the Bible into Afrikaans, dies in Pretoria.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announces it has entered into a stand-by agreement with South Africa under which South Af

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Soweto flares into violence again. An estimated £75,000 damage is caused. Incidents are also reported from Cape Town, Pretoria

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The Attorney General of the Transvaal, Jacobus E. Nothling, announces that an inquest into Biko’s death will be held, but that

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Nine people are killed on the N1 between Bloemfontein and Winburg when a lorry runs into the back of a stationary bus.

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Nine people are killed on the N1 between Bloemfontein and Winburg when a lorry runs into the back of a stationary bus.