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It comes to light that thousands of unwitting South African women, who lost their ID documents in the past, may be married ille
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News 24 announces that Al-Qaeda terrorists are using South African passports, which they obtain through syndicates, for as litt
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South Africa has a new R5 coin with distinct security features designed in a bid to outsmart counterfeiters.
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The municipality of Pretoria announces that the eleven autonomous city councils are going to merge to form Tshwane Metro.
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Jack Viviers (55), assistant editor of Rapport, dies in Cape Town.
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Nineteen youths, under whom four South Africans, are killed in an adventure sport accident near Interlaken, in the Swiss Alps.
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The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American exchange student, is granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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SA exchanges notes with Peru on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
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The UN Security Council authorises an urgent airlift of food and medicine for Somalia and demands the cooperation of warring fa
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South Africa and Lesotho exchange prisoners across the Caledon River, heralding a new rapprochement and a lifting of strict bor
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The Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration and Education, Punt Janson, invites guidance in humanising the pass laws and influx
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Dag Hammarskjold, secretary-general of the UN, arrives in the Congo to try to end the civil war.
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South African Anneline Kriel, who was elected Miss World, is born.
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William Govan Bennie (73), educationist and author, is born in Alice, Eastern Cape.
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The Young Commission, charged with investigating possible outlets or areas abroad to which South African Indians can be relocat
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WWI: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia a month after the murder on Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. World War I starts.
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Dr Jan Bouws, Dutch and SA musicologist and composer, is born in Purmerend, the Netherlands.
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Cecil Higgs, one of SA’s foremost painters, is born in Thaba Nchu, OFS.
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Dorothea Möller-Malan, SA missionary and writer, is born in Winburg, OFS, as Dorothea Catherina Stoffelina Malan.
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Michiel Hendrik Neser, first Afrikaans novelist, is born on the farm Lukaskop, Philipstown district.
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The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an
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Sixty-seven of the sixty-nine suspected mercenaries plead guilty to lesser charges of violating Zimbabwe’s immigration and civi
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’Sorry Gandhi’ 105 years later. The following apology by the current president of the Natal Law Society, David Randles, is publ
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Trevor Wittes, arrested after the murder on four people in George and pretending to be paralysed after being shot by police, is
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The SA cricket team loses the fourth test against England on Trent Bridge with 8 wickets. One test remains to be played and bot
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Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at the public Centennial Olympic Park, killing two people and injur
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ANC President Nelson Mandela says that next week’s general strike will go ahead. He says the aim of the mass protest was not an
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Church leaders launch a major initiative among business, labour, government and political groups to restart negotiations and he
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Albert Zafy, the top opposition leader in Madagascar is arrested and thousands of his supporters protest in a central square.
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