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A recount of Namibia’s parliamentary elections has ended with officials confirming the original results of the November polls.
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Jan Egeland, the United Nations’ relief co-ordinator, announces in Geneva that conflict and preventable disease have triggered
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National Library Week (17-22 March) starts.
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About 500 members of a doomsday cult die in a church fire in a remote part of southwestern Uganda. Mass graves containing 4
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Start of the first lottery in SA.
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Prof. Hans Roosenschoon, director of the conservatory in Stellenbosch, informs the members of the university choir that the cho
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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is found guilty in the Cape Supreme Court of embezzling
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Denel says no deal has been reached over the sale of arms to Syria.
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Allan Boesak appears in a Cape Town court to face nine charges of fraud and twenty-one charges of theft involving more than $80
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Mugabe is re-elected as president in Zimbabwe with 92.7% of the vote but the opposition contests the results.
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Hundreds of police in Assiut, Egypt storm two buildings where bomb-throwing extremists are holed up. At least eleven people are
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White voters in a referendum overwhelmingly support reforms towards ending apartheid in South Africa.
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More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The
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Business Day reports that the Soweto delegation for ending the rent boycott has released a report, drawn up by Planact, a priva
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The condition of Donsie Khumalo, on a hunger strike since 9 March with other unionists in support of the release of all detaine
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A car bomb explodes outside the Krugersdorp magistrate’s court, killing three people and wounding 22.
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The ‘Sharpeville Six’ win a one-day stay of execution in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The stay is granted a day before
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A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel
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It is reported that during February 1979, Dr. Eschel Rhoodie has claimed in interviews in Quito, Ecador, that he was the initia
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Angolan troops invading Zaire take important copper-mining centre of Kolwezi.
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Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut
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President Fouché pays a state visit to Malawi (17-24 March) and appeals for peaceful co-existence and cooperation betwee
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Steve Atherton, Natal rugby player, is born.
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Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player, is born.
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African National Congress is banned in several rural districts.
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The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (now a campus of the North West University) is recognised as a univ
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Bakili Muluzi, president of Malawi, is born.
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The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.
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Herero Revolt: In the German Reichstag (Parliament), August Bebel representing the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) condemn
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