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Hundreds of foreigners, including three SA businessmen, flee from Eritrea after a frontier dispute with Ethiopia leads to bombi
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Foreigners flee heavy fighting between rival militias in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
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After two months of genocide, the United States agrees to a UN peacekeeping mission to Rwanda after receiving assurances that U
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Zahi Hawass and fellow Egyptologists announce the discovery of a workers’ cemetery and village just beyond Heit el-Shorab (the
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Several Lesotho army officers are arrested after attempting a counter-coup to reinstate Major-General Metsing Lekhanya, ousted
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Phanuel Molaudzi, Rose Kota and Darkmore Tshabalala, members of the ANC and SACP, are gunned down on a train in Soweto.
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Abel Molokwane (31), executive member of Brits Action Committee, is shot dead in Oukasie, Western Transvaal by unknown gunmen.
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Pres. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency in SA.
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The young girl Joan Horn disappears mysteriously in Pretoria. It is believed that her disappearance is connected to the activit
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US company Goodyear, South Africa’s biggest tyre manufacturer, sells its local operations for R178-million. The operation will
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The Star reports, after interviews with ANC leaders, that the ANC plans to increase military action to raise the sagging Black
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The moderator of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk, Professor Johan Heyns, tells a conference in Harare that the NGK no longer
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Train apartheid is scrapped in the Western Cape as the first part of a plan to eliminate discrimination on trains throughout th
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Dr. Piet Koornhof declares that, pending the implementation of the Orderly Movement and Settlement of Black Persons Bill, inter
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The South African Black Alliance (SABA) (7-8 June) condemns the proposed composition of the President’s Council and the nomin
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The Chief Executive Councillor of Kwazulu, Chief Buthelezi, condemns plans to consolidate Zululand in terms of the 1936 Trust a
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Israeli forces reach Suez Canal in Egypt, two days into Six-Day War.
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The Police Amendment Bill, passed unopposed, empowers the police to search without warrant any person or premises within one mi
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Phosphorous bombs are detonated at Algiers University by members of the Organisation de l’Armee Secrete (OAS), a secret (terror
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Pixley Seme (also called Pixley ka Isaka Seme), politician and co-founder of the African National Congress, dies in Johannesbur
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The first copy of the FAK-volksangbundel is handed in Bloemfontein to the chairman of the FAK, Dr N.J. van der Merwe.
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Hubert Lawrence du Plessis, SA composer, is born on the farm Groenrivier, near Malmesbury.
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Joshua Nkomo, president of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (Zapu) and a future vice-president of Zimbabwe, is born at a Lon
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Lt.-Gen. Sir William Francis Butler (71), commanding officer of the British forces in the Cape Province during Anglo-Boer War 2
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Charles Barter (83), author and Natal magistrate, dies in Pietermaritzburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: units under Gen. Hunter occupy Lichtenburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Roodewal Siding takes place near Koppies, OFS. Gen. De Wet and eighty men attack two comp
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F.W. Reitz, former president of the OFS, becomes state secretary of the ZAR in the place of Dr W.J. Leyds, who is appointed to
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Hyde Villiers Clarendon, governor-general of the Union of SA from 1931 to 1937, is born.
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