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The Xhosa musical, uCarmen in Khayelitsha, wins the Golden Bear award as the best film at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany.
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The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to
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Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, is charged with concealing information about a failed coup. In June, the ch
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Two car bombs explode near Algiers, killing twelve and wounding thirty-five during the final hours of Ramadan celebrations.
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SA signs bilateral air transport agreement with the government of Morocco.
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Fifteen people are killed in an attack on youth volunteers for an ANC voter education workshop in Mahlele, Creighton, Natal, pr
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The ANC national executive committee endorses the proposal of an interim government of national unity not more than five years
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Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri
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Foreign TV crews are prohibited from filming incidents of unrest in South Africa’s Black townships.
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Top leadership officials of the United Democratic Front (UDF) are arrested. Of the thirteen detained, six are to be charged for
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Eighteen people die in Crossroads, Cape Town, when police fire on protestors.
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A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six Blacks seeking registr
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The Navy frigate SAS President Kruger sinks at Cape Point after colliding with the SAS Tafelberg, eighteen people die.
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In a joint statement the leaders of seven Black ‘homelands’ set out the basis of a possible consensus solution for South Africa
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The election of the first government sponsored Soweto Community Council is poorly supported.
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The space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, goes on its maiden flight.
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All activities of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) are suspended until further notice. The announcement is made
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The Lebanese government decides to break off diplomatic relations with South Africa.
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John Vorster formally opens a new submarine cable between Cape Town and Lisbon.
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The government drops two Bills, which were designed to enforce racial segregation on university campuses.
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Gambia becomes Africa’s 36th state when it gains independence from Britain.
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President Leon M’ba is restored to power in Gabon by French troops, following an attempted coup led by Jean-Hilaire Aubume.
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Rugby teams of SA and France play to a draw with no score in Paris.
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Jeffrey Thamsanqa (Jeff) Radebe, SA Minister of Transport (2004), is born.
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Dr Hasmukh Gajjar, medical practitioner, former chair of the Vodacom Group and managing director of various IT companies, is bo
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WW2: Mega, the Italian headquarters in southern Abyssinia, falls to SA forces.
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Southern Rhodesian Minister of Railways H.W. Moffat visits Cape Town to discuss the building of Beit Bridge over the Limpopo Ri
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Samuel Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in the par
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The Cape Premier, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, resigns.
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