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Hendrik Hop, leader of an expedition to the north of the Orange River, is born in the district of Paarl.
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National Epilepsy Day.
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Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is to be held in the
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Representatives of striking security guards and industry employers reach an agreement to end the strike at the Commission for C
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Violence in Ivory Coast breaks out between rival rebel factions in Karoo, leaving twenty-two dead.
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The US shuts down its embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, after a terrorist threat. The new embassy building opened March 3 2002, after
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The SA rugby team beats Ireland 33-0 in Pretoria and wins the series 2-0.
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The NP serves legal papers on the Commission giving notice of a High Court application to be heard on 26 August 1997. The appli
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ANC and SACP stalwart, teacher and chief ANC Whip in the provincial KwaZulu-Natal legislature, Harry Themba (Mphephethwa) Gwala
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SA signs extradition agreement with the government of Lesotho.
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Pitso Moekoena, ANC member, is shot dead in Umlazi, Natal.
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Second Public Security Amendment, Decree No 10 commences.
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South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrive in New York City for a ticker-tape parade in their
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The South African government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill, which proposes an advisory and consultati
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Muntu Khanyile, Joseph Mthembu, Sandile Khawula and Russel Mngomezulu, all Chesterville Youth Organisation members, are shot de
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The Swaziland government welcomes South Africa’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claim
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The government’s White Paper on the Riekert Report accepts that existing laws enforcing racial separation may have to be review
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Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru
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The Minister of Defence denies that South African troops are supporting Portuguese armed forces in Mozambique, as alleged by FR
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Justice W.G. Boshoff imposes prison sentences ranging from five to fifteen years on six defendants convicted under the Terroris
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At the meetings of Council of Ministers of the OAU, dialogue with South Africa is firmly rejected.
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General Nasser, president of Egypt, announces a plan to protect the ancient temples at Abu Simbel by moving them to a nearby si
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The short-lived Federation of Mali and Senegal becomes independent of France.
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Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Soweto. From childhood until 1974 he received art education at the YWCA (Young
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Walter Sisulu attends the annual conference of the ANC branch of the Cape Province at Uitenhage. Sisulu officiates as secretary
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Sam Kahn announces in Parliament that the Communist Party of South African has disbanded. The announcement is made a few days b
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Agreement is reached on frontier between Sudan and Libya.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British execute P.W. Kloppert, a Cape rebel, by hanging. Cloete claimed that he was not a rebel because
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Barend Bartholomeus Keet, one of the first five translators of the Bible in Afrikaans, is born in Alice, Eastern Cape.
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