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… In Algiers, an assassin shoots and kills the leader of Algeria’s largest labour union a key presidential ally and an opponent o …

… Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air  and fo …

… Annual Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the SADCC and representatives of donor countries and organisations, hel …

… forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc …

… Christopher Nceba Faku, political activist and prisoner and mayor of Port Elizabeth for several terms, is born in New …

… Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of …

… Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t …

… Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie …

… Nine Israeli tourists and two Egyptian guards are killed and twenty tourists wounded when masked assailants open fire …

… A customs union and railway extension are proposed at a conference of delegations from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Orange Fr …

… Talks (10 -12 May) start in Cape Town between Swaziland and South Africa concerning trade and regional security. South Africa i …

… his visit (8-13 April) to Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and UAE to promote trade and cultural links, accompanied …

… F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold an emergency meeting with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Zul …

… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa …

… Rampaging troops kill Rwanda’s acting premier and eleven Belgian UN soldiers and civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a myst …

… schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and …

… World Book and Copyright Day. By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the …

… The NP accuses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of bias and announces it will no longer co-operate with it. …

… ‘Brevity’. British forces regain Halfaya Pass and capture the towns of Sollum and Capuzzo on the Egypt–Libya b …

… Sofasonke (meaning ‘We shall all die’) Mpanza, politician and founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better ho …

… Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician and Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, die …

… Wilhelm Adolph Alheit, army chaplain for the Boer forces and minister in Colesberg, Dordrecht and Ceres, is born. …

… Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet and twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrik …

… J. N. Boshof of the Republic of the Orange Free State and Chief Moshesh and his sons …

… Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker met Mahatma Gandhi in Patna and held several hours of discussions with him (Mahatma …

… The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden … co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and …

… South Africa, Cuba, Angola and the United States announce they are to attend a settlement conference on Angola and Namibia in B …

… The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank meet in Washington, DC with finance ministers and central bankers from …

… SA film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto and directed by Gavin Woods, receives the Oscar f …

… Isaac Williams Wauchope, author and activist, is ordained as pastor of the Congregational Native Church of Fort Beaufort and Bl …