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Isaac Baumann, Bloemfontein pioneer and trader, is born in Germany.
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National day of Liberia since 1847.
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Murdered Free State official Noby Ngombane’s wife, Nokwanda, and two of her sisters, Vuyokasi Mlambo, 26, and Thanthiswa Mlambo
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The Scorpions arrest John Pappie Mokoena, mayor of Mangaung, his wife Granny and city manager Mojalefa Laplole, chief operating
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Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an alleged al-Qaeda militant, is arrested in Pakistan.
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The Queen opens the Commonwealth Games in Manchester with a spectacular ceremony in front of 38,000 people.
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The engagement of Marike, first wife of Pres. F.W. de Klerk, to Johan Koekemoer, Johannesburg businessman and accountant, is an
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Leon Schuster, SA actor, comedian and singer, announces that he and his wife Lalie are getting a divorce.
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Rapport newspaper reports that Chris Barnard’s wife, Karen, is suing him for a divorce.
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Prof. Johan Combrink (60), Afrikaans lecturer and linguist, dies in Stellenbosch of complications following an asthma attack.
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The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 13-3 in the three-nations tournament. It is the 50th game between the two opponents.
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A hijacker holds an Algerian jetliner for five hours at an airport in western Algeria before he is overpowered. All 232 people
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The Constitutional Court rejects an attempt by the families of murdered political activists to have the Truth and Reconciliatio
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St James Church massacre. Azanian Peoples’ Liberation Army (APLA the armed wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress)
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The 25th Summer Olympics opens in Barcelona, Spain.
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The South African government admits donating $35 billion in 1989 to support political parties opposing the South-West Africa Pe
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Representatives of the South African authorities, business and religious leaders, as well as ANC and IFP, meet in Johannesburg
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Liberian rebels attack an airfield in Monrovia, closing off that city’s last link to outside world.
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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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The body of Eric Mntonga, the Border co-director of the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), is fou
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Indemnity Act No 31, indemnifying the Ciskei administration against any court proceedings arising from its actions, commences.
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The trial ends in the Natal Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg of five Africans all of whom have previous convictions for subver
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Congresses of both the Progressive and the Reform parties, held simultaneously in Johannesburg, unanimously approve the merger
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Charles H. Weich (pseud. Emol) (80), first Afrikaans music critic, dies.
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Dr Christiaan Barnard transplants two lungs and a heart into a man in Cape Town, South Africa, and the operation is described a
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The Springbok team beats the All Blacks 17-6 in the first test match in Pretoria.
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The SA rugby team loses 6-8 against the French team in Springs.
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The Mozambique leader, Eduardo Mondlane, as the president of Frelimo, successfully promotes a coalition between several indepen
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The monarchy in Tunis ends and the country becomes a republic with Habib ben Ali Bourguiba as first president.
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