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The Dutch East India Company orders Henry Hudson to try again to find a northwestern sea route to India.
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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to eight years in gaol on charges of fraud
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At least thirty-two people die and 100 are injured when a train between Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya derails.
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An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge
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President FW de Klerk tells parliament that South Africa constructed six nuclear fission devices but these had been dismantled
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The Mali opposition says government troops killed nearly 150 people in three days of pro-democracy protests.
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates it will cost $40m to repatriate South Africa’s 40 000 exiles.
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Dinzy Maphumulo, stepfather of Chief Maphumulo, is shot dead at his home in Table Mountain, Natal.
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Twelve people including a policeman and two children are killed and thirty-eight injured as violence breaks out between police,
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Scores of people are believed injured when police fire teargas into a crowd in Soweto during a march to the Soweto City Council
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Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that eighty-one people were charged under the Internal Security Act
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The SA Defence Force announces that the body of an SAAF Mirage pilot and the remains of his aircraft have been found in the ope
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The United Nations Security Council Commission of Inquiry, investigating the abortive Seychelles coup, fails to reach a definit
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The government announces that it is terminating its preferential trade agreement concluded with Rhodesia in 1964.
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Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies
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Gabriel Stephanus (Gaffie) du Toit, SA rugby player, is born in Kuils River, CP.
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Terry van der Merwe receives Springbok colours for water skiing on her 14th birthday.
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Uganda crushes a coup attempt against President Idi Amin.
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An extradition agreement between SA and Malawi is published in Pretoria.
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Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo. He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19
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Provincial Council elections show a sharp swing to the government side and shock the opposition UP. Although provincial, the ca
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The Ciskei territorial authority is instituted.
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The Government banns all public meetings of more than twelve persons until June 30 in an effort to disrupt the wave of protests
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A new constitution goes into effect in Tanganyika, East Africa.
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Two pilots of SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the United Nations in the Korean War, blast a convoy of
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The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T
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The first work of Sita (Sara Susanna de Kock), winner of the Scheepers Prize, is published.
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Philip McLachlan, choirmaster of the choir of the University of Stellenbosch, is born.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mr H.R. Fox, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, after being made aware by Emily Hobhouse of the
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