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During the official gala dinner in Windhoek, Namibia, in honour of Robert Mugabe, he hails his land and resettlement policy as
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Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono of Zimbabwe acknowledges his nation is broke and says food imports are gobbling up foreign cu
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News 24 reports that the "De La Rey debate" has reached the United States’ shores. The New York Times published a fro
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Voters in Burundi overwhelmingly approve a new power-sharing constitution aimed at bringing to a final end an eleven-year civil
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The number of prisoners in custody stands at 170 168. The prisons can accommodate 102 048 prisoners.
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Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized in Zimbabwe by squatters and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign to reclaim
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses against Egypt in the final game of the Africa Nations Cup in Burkina Faso.
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The bodies of two Swedish tourists are discovered in their luxury holiday flat in Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal.
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Joint statement of intent by President Mandela of South Africa and President Chissano of the Republic of Mozambique and the pre
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Signs treaty with the government of Namibia regarding Walvis Bay and the off-shore islands.
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South Africa and the Russian Federation establish full diplomatic relations.
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South Africa agrees to negotiate the future of the control of the enclave of Walvis Bay and several islands off the coast of Na
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South African commandos raid Gaborone, Botswana, in search of ANC members.
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Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme is assassinated on a street in Stockholm. Christer Pettersson (42) later alleged that SA was
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More than 200 of the Transvaal National Party vote on either Dr. Treurnicht or Mr. Botha’s interpretation of Party policy. The
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An Anglican priest, the Reverend David Russell, is sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defying his banning order and attendin
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Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist, community leader and a keen athlete, dies in Orlando West, Soweto.
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The Minister of Justice announces that detainees held under security laws will soon be allowed to have monthly visits from doct
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US and Egypt re-establish diplomatic relations after seven-year breach.
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The Ivory Coast Foreign Minister urges African nations to seek dialogue with South Africa.
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Prime Minister Vorster announces that the new Coloured Persons Representative Council will be comprised of forty elected and tw
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The electoral college elects T.E. Donges as the next State President by 163 votes to fifty-two, cast for Major van der Byl.
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Fholisane Sydney Mufamadi, SA Minister for Provincial and Local Government since June 1999, is born.
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Susan Shabangu, SA Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy and member of the ANC Steering Committee, is born.
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Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed after enlarging the Senate and the Appellate Court. It removes Coloure
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Dr Monwabisi Bevan Goqwana, MEC for Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and former specialist physician at Umtata Hospi
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Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog announces in Parliament the final coalition agreement with Gen. J.C. Smuts.
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The Rand mineworkers’ revolt intensifies when three mineworkers are shot and killed outside the prison in Boksburg.
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Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist, community leader and a keen athlete, is born in Engcobo, Transkei.
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