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SA signs agreement for air services with Japan.

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A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW

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Five people die in a panga fight in Katlehong, thought to be related to the ongoing taxi violence.

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Britain and the United States veto a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council, following the banning of organisa

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Outspoken Kenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia (82), a friend and later rival of the country’s founding president Jomo Kenyat

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Mozambique’s former president Joaquim Chissano, who steered his country for eighteen years after helping end a long and brutal

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Following a statement issued by the ANC earlier the day, the Tshwane City Council votes to retain the name, Pretoria, for the c

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”The City of Pretoria no longer exists”, a spokesman for the African National Congress’s Tshwane region says in a statement iss

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Zimbabwe seizes a US-registered cargo plane carrying sixty-four suspected mercenaries and military equipment. Simon Mann, of th

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Bobby Hendricks (63), SA saxophone player, dies in Cape Town.

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Johan Botha wins the 800 m in Japan and becomes SA’s first indoor world champion.

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Louis Koch (64), director-general of National Housing until 1994, dies in Cape Town.

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Frans Erasmus (38), Springbok prop of Eastern Province, is killed in a car accident, 100 m from the place where his wife was ki

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Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al

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A foreign ministry statement issued in Pretoria, blames ‘developments in Angola’ for the indefinite postponement of President M

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Multinational African army installs new government in Liberia.

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Angola says its troops have withdrawn from Huambo after two months of fighting with rebels that left 10,000 dead.

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The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been

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Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra

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About 5 000 people gather on the Parade in Cape town to protest against the decision of Lord Grey, British colonial minister, t

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Ulrich Gerhard Lauts, founder of the pro-Boer association in the Netherlands, is born in Amsterdam.

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Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen

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Dr Mohammed Moosa Motala, medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet

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Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,

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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, beats Scotland 2-0.

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The home game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Zambia ends in a tie with 1-1.

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Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan

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The government in Kinshasa lifts the quarantine on the region affected by the killer Ebola virus, allowing free travel for the

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South Africa is represented, for the first time, officially at a meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) w

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An agreement is reached between President F.W. de Klerk, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Inkatha’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi restr

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SA signs agreement for air services with Japan.

A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW

Five people die in a panga fight in Katlehong, thought to be related to the ongoing taxi violence.

Britain and the United States veto a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council, following the banning of organisa

Outspoken Kenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia (82), a friend and later rival of the country’s founding president Jomo Kenyat

Mozambique’s former president Joaquim Chissano, who steered his country for eighteen years after helping end a long and brutal

Following a statement issued by the ANC earlier the day, the Tshwane City Council votes to retain the name, Pretoria, for the c

”The City of Pretoria no longer exists”, a spokesman for the African National Congress’s Tshwane region says in a statement iss

Zimbabwe seizes a US-registered cargo plane carrying sixty-four suspected mercenaries and military equipment. Simon Mann, of th

Bobby Hendricks (63), SA saxophone player, dies in Cape Town.

Johan Botha wins the 800 m in Japan and becomes SA’s first indoor world champion.

Louis Koch (64), director-general of National Housing until 1994, dies in Cape Town.

Frans Erasmus (38), Springbok prop of Eastern Province, is killed in a car accident, 100 m from the place where his wife was ki

Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al

A foreign ministry statement issued in Pretoria, blames ‘developments in Angola’ for the indefinite postponement of President M

Multinational African army installs new government in Liberia.

Angola says its troops have withdrawn from Huambo after two months of fighting with rebels that left 10,000 dead.

The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been

Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra

About 5 000 people gather on the Parade in Cape town to protest against the decision of Lord Grey, British colonial minister, t

Ulrich Gerhard Lauts, founder of the pro-Boer association in the Netherlands, is born in Amsterdam.

Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen

Dr Mohammed Moosa Motala, medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet

Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,

Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, beats Scotland 2-0.

The home game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Zambia ends in a tie with 1-1.

Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan

The government in Kinshasa lifts the quarantine on the region affected by the killer Ebola virus, allowing free travel for the

South Africa is represented, for the first time, officially at a meeting of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) w

An agreement is reached between President F.W. de Klerk, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Inkatha’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi restr